STAPELIE^ OF THUNBERG's HERBARIUM. 167 



corolla is about 2 in. diam., but is much shrunk in drying, and, 

 when fresh, would be 3-4 in. diam. or more ; in colour it seems to 

 have been purple-brown, with transverse yellowish lines on the 

 lobes (?), which are glabrous on the upper two thirds, the basal one 

 third and disk being covered with tine, silky, matted, purple hairs ; 

 the parts of the corona are pallid, but that may be the effect of 

 drying. 



N.B. The flower is detached from the stem. 



Sheet a, right-hand specimen. (PI. XI. figs. 20 & 21.) 

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

 Pedicels li in. long, pubescent. Calyx-lobes lanceolate acumi- 

 nate, pubescent. Corolla with the disk covered with woolly hairs ; 

 lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, densely fringed with rather long 

 simple hairs. Parts of corona as shown in the drawing ; the lobes 

 of the outer corona appear very short comparatively. 



The specimen is merely a young flowering branch that has not 

 attained its full proportions, being only 2\ in. long, and slender in 

 proportion, from which it is impossible to form a correct idea of 

 the plant. The dried flower is 14 lines in diameter, but is pro- 

 bably very much larger when fresh ; the lobes appear to be 

 smooth on the face, and more or less covered with hairs ; colour 

 all faded. 



Sheet b. (PI. XI. figs. 22 & 23.) 



Stems pubescent, teeth rather distant, flowering near the base 

 of the young r branches. Pedicels 4 in. long, pubescent. Calyx- 

 lobes 7 lines long, linear-lanceolate, acute, pubescent. Corolla 

 large, 4£-5 in. diam., pubescent on the back ; face rugose, dark 

 purple-brown, with transverse yellow lines on the middle part of 

 lobes ; the disk and base of lobes densely covered with matted 

 purplish or purple hairs. Parts of the corona as shown in the 

 drawing dark purple-brown, with the tips of the inner horns 

 paler. Perhaps the plant described in Thunberg's f FL Cap.' 

 ii. 168. 



This may perhaps prove to be Stapelia hamata, Jacq. 



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Calyx 5-partitus, basi intus 5-squamatus. Corolla tubo campanulato, pro- 

 cessu campanulato-tubuloso cum corollae tubo aequilongo e fundo intus 

 oriundo, lobis valvatis peranthesin patentibus. ^Corona duplex breviter 

 stipitata, exterior 5-loba, lobis basi connatis, latis, bifidis ; interior lobis 



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