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Huernia (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 156, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

H. aspera (rough). fl. few in a sessile cyme; sepals greenish or purple, linear-subulate, spreading; corolla purple, nearly 1in. in diameter and as long, campanulate, the lobes very short, broadly triangular, acute; column very short; outer corona of five broad, short, truncate, very dark lobes, the inner of five yellowish, oblong-lanceolate, erect, incurved, obtuse ones. September. l. minute, tooth-like, distant, horizontal or recurved. Stems procumbent, purplish-brown; branches ascending, divaricate. Zanzibar, 1887. (B. M. 7000.)