168 ME. N. E. BROWN ON THE 



5, antheris basi adnatis, ovatis, incumbentibus. Pollinia subhorizonta- 

 lia, tumida, semiorbicularia, caudiculis brevibus glandulse ad appendi- 

 ces laterales affixa. Caules hurniles, aphylli, crasso-earnosi, quadrangu- 

 lares, angulis grosse dentatis. 

 Species 1, Africa australis incola. 



(5.) DlPLOCTATHA CILIATA. (PI. XII. figS. 1-3.) 



Ramis decumbentibus, 1^-2 poll, longis, glabris ; pedicellis 6-8 lin. 

 longis, erectis ; lobis calycinis lanceolatis, acutis, glabris ; corolla o 

 poll, diam., "extus levis viridi-purpurascens, intus cinerea papillosa, 

 scabra, papillis apice rufescentibus " (Thunb.), lobis ovatis acutis albo- 

 ciliatis, ciliis clavatis, processus tubulosus margine revoluto crassis- 

 sima, integerrima, "intus extusque papillis apice purpurascentibus, 

 muricatus " (Thunb.), fundo circa genitalia dense barbata. Coronse 

 exterioris lobis erecto-patentibus transverse oblongis, bifidis vel biden- 

 tatis, dentibus subacutis, interioris crassis, ovatis, acuminatis, apice in 

 cornu brevissime productis. — St&pelia ciliata, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ii. 168; 

 Mass. Stap. 9, t. 1. — Tromotriche ciliata, Sweety Hort. Brit. 358. 

 Podanthes ciliata, Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 118.— Stapelia § Podanthes 

 Dene, in DC. Prod. viii. 655. 



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Ma 



A very remarkable plant, whicb only appears to have been col- 

 lected by the two above-mentioned botanists. The large tubular 

 process which arises from near the bottom of the corolla-tube was 

 mistaken by Thunberg for the outer corona ; but it is unques- 

 tionably analogous to the fleshy annulus arising from the corolla 

 and surrounding the genitalia found in those species of Stapelia 



rnorata, &c. 



§ Orbea, such as S. planifr 



(6.) Stapelia fasciculata, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ii. 170.— Piaran- 

 thus ? fasciculata, Schultes, Syst. vi. 10 ; Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 113. 



P. ? fasciculatus, Dene, in DC. Prod. viii. 650. 



Hab. In collibus Hantum prope Eoggefeldtsberg (Thunlerg)* 



There is a specimen in Thunberg's herbarium without a name, 

 consisting of two bits of stem, one of which bears two follicles 4 

 inches long on an erect pedicel 16 lines long. As this agrees 

 exactly with his description of S. fasciculata, it must, I think, be 

 that plant ; but as there are no flowers, it is impossible to deter- 

 mine it, though, to judge from the specimen, it does not belong to 



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or Piaranthus. 



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