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STAPELIA hirsuta; var. aira. 

 Dark 'flowered hairj/ Stapelia. 



PENTANDRIA DIQYNIA. 



Nat ord. Asclepiade^, Broum in Wem. trans. 1. 12. Sect /. Pol- 



linis mass^ eereacex Iteves. 

 STAPELIA. SuprdfoL 765. 



Sect. I. Corona exterw pentaphyliut foHolis indivms^ Brown. - 

 S, kirtntaj corollis planis ciliatis, disco in iacie hirsutis, caeterum glabris et 



transTers^ rugosis; rostris subulatis acutis, dorso per luaximam l<N]gitu* 



diBem excurrentibus in alam latam acutam rostroque paulo breriorem. 



«/cic. Siap. cult 1 15. — var< atra ib. t. 16. 

 Asclepias africana aizoides flore pulchro fimbriato. Camm. rar, 19. 1 19. 



Bradl, mcc, 3. 5. f. 23, 

 S. hirsuta. Linn, syst 260. MilL ic. 172. t 258. Jacg. misc. 1. 28. t 3. 



Thunb. prod. 46. WiOd. sp. pi 1, 1278- ill*. Kew. 2. 85. Pen. «y»- 



1. 278. Haw, synops. succ, 19. suppL pL mcc. 9. Rom. et Sch. sp.pL 



6. 17. Link en. be}\ 254. 



As the Stapelia, figured in our last artii^le, is .air^ex-^ 

 unple of Mr. Brown's second section of the family,. iaiid^ibf 

 Mr. Haworth's genus Orbea ; so is the present an illi£stra- 

 tion of the first section in the arrangement of the focpier 

 gentleman, and of what is considered to constitute the true 

 character of Stapeua by Mr. Haworth. 



The variety of S. hirsuta, which we have now before us, 

 appears to be intermediate between that species and S. aoro- 

 ria ; and to agi%e with the former in its essential charac- 

 teristics, but to exhibit the colour of the flower of the 

 latter speef^. It is stated by Messrs. Rdmer and Schultes, 

 that it has been considered, by a writer in the Leipsic Diary 

 for 1814, a distinct species. We were l^voured with the 

 specimen, from ^Mch trar drawing was taken, from the 

 collection of Mr. Hood, of Lambeth ; but we had no op- 

 portunity at the time of describing it. 



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