BOUCEROSIA

(from boukeros, furnished with buffaloes' horns; in reference to the curved lobes of the corona) O RD. Asclepiad aceæ. A genus of greenhouse succulent perennials, allied to Stapelia, and requiring the same culture. Flowers numerous, terminal, umbellate; corolla sub-campanulate, five-cleft; segments broadly triangular, with acute rece es; stramineous corona fifteen-lobed; lobes disposed in a double series; the five inner ones opposite the stamens and lying upon the anthers; the rest exterior, erect, or a little incurved at apex, adhering to the back of the inner ones. Branches and stems tetragonal, with toothed angles. IMG:7081556231692414330_i_205a.jpg: F IG. 268 B OUCEROSIA EUROPÆA.