Quaqua
(name given to the plant by the Hottentots, who eat the stems raw). ORD. Asclepiadeae. A monotypic genus. The species is an erect, dwarf, branched, and rather bushy, greenhouse succulent, allied to Boucerosia, requiring culture similar to Stapelia (which see).
Q. hottentotorum (Hottentot). fl. In fascicles of six to ten or more, along the grooves between the angles of the branches, on very short pedicels; calyx pale green or purplish; corolla pale greenish-yellow, 1/4in. in diameter, with tive spreading lobes; corona pale yellow, very minute. Older stems 1in. thick, younger ones 1/2in. to 3/4in. thick; angles four, rounded, armed with stout, horizontal or slightly decurved, decussate, brown-pointed teeth. h. 4in. to 6in. Plant greyish-green or purplish, glabrous. Nama. qualand, 1878. (G. C. n. s., xii. 1.)