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fig. 11 ; and as the stems are like Sir Henry Barkly's plants, and 

 the only difference observable being in the curvature of the lobes 

 of the inner corona, I conclude that they all form one species 

 which is liable to coronal variation. 



(3.) Boiicerosia (§ Purisantha) incarnata. (PL XI. figs. 

 14-17.) 



Ramis erectis, glabris, 4-angularibus, 6-8 lin. crassis; flores inter angu- 

 los fasciculati, pedicellis 1 lin. longis, glabris ; corolla campanulata, 

 pallide incarnata, lobis erecto -patentibus, lineari-lanceolatis, subacutis, 

 convexis, extus levis, intus minute rugosa, ad faucem minute pilosa; 

 corona flava, exterior 5-loba, lobis suberectis bifidis, interior 5-loba, 

 lobis ligulatis subobtusis apice non productis. — Stapelia incarnata, 

 Linn. Suppl. 171 ; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ii. 167; Mass. Stap. 22, t. 34. 



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Podanthes incarnata, Sweet, Hort. Brit. 358. — Piaranthusincarnatus, 

 Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 114 ; Dene, in DC. Prod. viii. 650. 



77, 



(Thunherq, Masso 



The outlines of the flower and corona I have made from the 

 dried flower, and the spreading of the corolla-lobes and lobes of 

 the outer corona may not be quite as in life. As regards the outer 

 coronal lobes in the flow r er examined by me, they were as shown at 

 fig. 16 ; but their position in life is probably somewhat as shown at 

 fig. 15. 



(4.) Stapelia hirsuta. 



Under this name Thunberg has confused three species, neither 

 of which seem to be the true plant. His specimens are glued upon 

 two sheets of paper marked a and b ; on the first sheet are two 

 species, on the second one. As they are not very well dried, it 

 renders it almost impossible to recognize the species or describe 

 them correctly ; but the following is an attempt to characterize 

 his specimens without at present giving them names ; they all 

 belong to the section Stapeltonia. 



Sheet a, left-hand specimen. (PI. XI. figs. 18 & 19.) . 



Stems pubescent, flowering near the base of the young branches. 

 Pedicels 1|- in. long, pubescent. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute, 

 pubescent. Corolla pubescent on the back ; face rugose, densely 

 villous in the centre ; lobes lanceolate, acute, fringed with long 

 simple hairs. The parts of the corona are as shown in the drawing. 



Probably a slender species, as the specimen has a stem 5 m. 

 long, 3-3£ lin. broad, with the teeth 2J-SA lin. distant; the 



