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Huernia (Named after Justus Huernius)

(named after Justus Huernius, one of the earliest collectors of Cape plants). ORD. Asclepiadeae. A genus comprising about eleven species of interesting greenhouse succulent plants, with the habit of Stapelia, from the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers large; corolla bell-shaped, five-fid, fleshy; corona double, outer one lobed, interior with five scales. For culture, see Stapelia.

H. barbata (bearded). fl. cream-coloured, variegated with elevated purple spots; disposed in fascicles at the base of the branches; peduncles two or three-flowered. August. Branches four or five-angled, with spreading, acute teeth. h. 6in. 1795. (B. M. 2401, under name of Stapelia barbata.) H. brevirostris (short-beaked).* fl. yellowish, minutely spotted; tube pinkish-white, blood-red at bottom; peduncles four to six-flowered. Branches erect or ascending, four, or rarely five-angled. h. 6in. 1877. (B. M. 6379.) H. campanulata (bell-shaped). fl. yellow; corolla campanulate, closed at bottom by clavate horizontal hairs; ligules spreading, truncate, dark. July to October. h. 6in. 1795. (B. M. 1227, under name of Stapelia campanulata.) H. lentiginosa (freckled). fl. sulphur-colour, dotted with red; peduncles three-flowered. July. Branches pentagonal, spreading, furnished with hooked teeth or tubercles. h. 6in. 1795. (B. M. 506, under name of Stapelia lentiginosa.) H. oculata (eyed).* fl., corolla tube almost hemispherical, white inside; limb deep violet-purple; column short. Summer. Branches soft, pale green, five-angled, quite glabrous. h. 3in. to 4in. Dammara Land, 1880. (B. M. 6658.) H. reticulata (netted). fl., corolla with a purplish bottom; limb yellow, dotted with purple; twin or tern. August. Branches pentagonal, denticulated, sap-green, with purple spots. h. 6in. 1793. (B. M. 1662, under name of Stapelia reticulata.)