122 F. Fedde. 
the newer species the ovary is much longer than the bracts sheathing 
it, and may be ?/; inch (11 mm) in length. 
3. Stapelia divergens N. E. Brown, l. c., p. 49 /Asclepiadaceae]. 
Stems 1!/4—3 inches high, often decumbent at the base, 4-angled, 
1/,—1/, inch square, glabrous, green or purplish; angles rounded, with 
conical, spreading teeth, 11/,—11/, line long, usually with a minute denticle 
on each side of the acute withering tips. Flowers 1—4 in a fascicle, 
successively developed near the base of the young stems. Pedicels 
1—1!/, inch long, glabrous. Sepals 2!/, lines long, 1 line broad, ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Corolla, when in bud, shortly conical, acute, 
from a broad, flattened 5-angled base; when expanded about 2 inches in 
diameter, nearly flat, with a raised central annulus, very minutely ciliate 
with simple hairs all along the lobes, otherwise glabrous on both sides, 
slightly rugulose on the inner surface; lobes about 9 lines long and 
7 lines broad, deltoid-ovate, very acute or acuminate, light yellow, laby- 
rinthically marked on the lower two thirds (as well as on the disc ‘of 
the corolla) with thick, irregularly ramified brownish-crimson lines, the 
marking on the apical part becoming broken up into spots; annulus about 
1?/, line high, nearly, circular, with a horizontally spreading (scarcely 
recurved) rim, bright canary-yellow, marked in the basin-shaped rugulose 
depression with rather crowded small round brownish-crimson spots, 
which are absent from the smoother rim, under neath the margin of 
which is a crenated band of connected brownish-crimson spots. Outer 
coronal-lobes ascending-spreading, 2 lines long, 1 line broad at the base. 
2—2!/, lines broad across the tips of the two subulate, straight, widely 
divergent points into which they are divided for two-thirds of their length 
pale yellowish, dusted with dark crimson-brown on the points, with a 
triangular spot at the base of the notch and a square spot of crimson 
brown at the base. Inner coronal-lobes 2-armed, pale yellowish, dusted 
with dark crimson-brown; outer arms 1!/ line long, erectly spreading, 
compressed-filiform very slightly thickened (not distinctly clavate), and 
very minutely tuberculate at the apex; inner arms 2 line long filiform, 
clavate, and minutely tuberculate at the apex, connivent at the base, then 
erect with recurving tips. 
Origin unknow; probably a native of South Africa. 
4. Vanda Watsoni Rolfe, |. c., p. 82 [Orchidaceae]. 
Plant almost identical in habit with Vanda Kimballiana Rchb. f. 
Leaves subterete, channelled on the upper surface, up to 14 inches long 
by 2 lines broad, narrowed upwards and subacute, with membranaceous 
sheaths at the base, dull dark green. Scapes slender, a foot or more 
long, about 12-flowered. Bracts ovate-oblong, obtuse 2, lines long. Flowers 
white, with some red-brown spots on the crest and interior of the sac 
of the lip. Dorsal sepal obovate-spatulate, obtuse, 9 lines long; lateral 
pair similar, but oblique at the base, 10 lines long. Petals 9 lines long, 
obovate-spatulate, obtuse, deflexed, twisted at the base so as to bring the 
back surface to the front. Lip 8 lines long by nearly 6 lines broad; 
