ASCLEPIADE. IV. STAPELIA. 
Cordate Stapelia. Fl. Ju. Aug. Clt. 1805. Shrub } to} foot. 
31 S. caxz'sceNs (Hort. ex Haw. syn. p. 26. no. 29.) h.S. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Nothing is known further 
of the species. 
Canescent Stapelia. Fl. Ju. Aug. Clt. 1795. Shrub. 
32 S. oputu’ncuta (Hort. ex Haw. syn. p. 27. no. 31.) b. 
S. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Nothing but the name 
is known of this species. 
Small-serpent Stapelia. Fl. Ju. Aug. Clt. 1805. Shrub proc. 
33 S. caupa`ra (Thunb. prod. 1. p. 46. fl. cap. 2. p. 171.) 
stem hairy, leafy; leaves oblong-linear, falcate; flowers axillary, 
pedicellate, solitary, drooping: segments of the limb linear. 
b.S. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Leaves sessile. 
Pedicels much shorter than the corolla. Corolla flat, purple, 
scaly inside. Perhaps a species of Ceropégia or Brachystélma. 
Tailed Stapelia. Shrub 3 foot. 
34 S. qvADRA/NGULA (Forsk. descr. p. 52. t. 6.) stem tetra- 
gonal; branches divaricate, floriferous at the apex : furnished 
with truncate teeth ; flowers small, crowded, sessile; corolla 
5-cleft. h.S. Native of Arabia Felix. Flowers greenish yellow. 
Calyx 5-toothed, permanent. Juice not milky, but aqueous. 
Forsk. cat. p. 108. no. 194. has also S. quadrángula ramosa, 
no. 194, besides S. quadrángula, no. 190. Sides of stem half 
an inch wide. 
Quadrangular-stemmed Stapelia. Shrub 14 foot. 
35 S. wuLTA'sGULA (Forsk. cat. no. 192.) stem branched, 
creeping, with 6-9 angles, and as many furrows ; angles toothed; 
follicles subulate. h. S. Native of Arabia Felix. Sak el 
Ghorob. Forsk, descr. p. 52. Anónymos, Poir. ency. 7. p. 391. 
The Arabians affirm, that this plant, after being apparently quite 
dead, by drying for a long time, if it is allowed to come in con- 
tact with moist earth, it will again revive. Forsk. desc. p. 52. 
Many-angled Stapelia. Shrub. 
36 S. crava'ta (Willd. spec. 1. p. 1295.) stem simple, thick, 
clavate, reticulately and obsoletely warted, bearing the fruit at 
the apex. h.S. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, in sandy 
fields, beyond Kopperberg. Stapélia, Patters. trav. p. 57. t. 8. 
only the fruit. 
Clavate-stemmed Stapelia. Shrub. 
N.B.—There is a species of Stapélia, which was collected at 
the Cape of Good Hope, on the banks of the Kaigaviel, near 
Roode Gebroken Klip, by Lichtenstein, which Willd. has called, 
in his enum. suppl. p. 14, breviréstris, but without giving any 
character of the plant. In the Neweste best. des Gart zu 
Belvidere, the following names occur, but without any diag- 
nosis of either—1. S. Buffoniàna, 2. S. bifolia, 3. S. cymdsa, 
4. S. tridentata, 5. S. virgata, and 6. S. verticillàta ; but these 
names are very likely synonymous with some of those described 
above. There are several undescribed species preserved in 
spirits of wine in the Banksian museum. What is S. dentàta, 
Forsk. cat. 192? and what is S. papillósa of Tabl. de l'ecole, 
ann. 1815. p. 92? 
Cult. Singular succulent, grotesque plants ; bearing remarkable 
and singularly beautiful, star-like flowers, usually with a very dis- 
agreeable smell. The soil best suited for them is a mixture of 
loam, sand, and lime or brick rubbish ; for, if grown in a richer 
soil, they become more luxuriant, and bear larger flowers; 
but in such a soil they are more apt to rot, if they chance to get a 
little too much water supplied them. They require very little 
water, except when in blossom; and in the winter, the less 
given to them the better. "They are readily increased by cut- 
tings, which should be allowed to dry for atleast a week or 
fortnight after they are taken off from the mother plant, before 
they are set; after which they may be planted in separate pots, 
when they will almost immediately strike root ; for if planted when 
first taken off, and full of juice, they have every chance to rot. 
VH 
V. GONOSTEMON (from ywva, gonia, an angle; and 
ergpov, stemon, a stamen.) Haw. syn. p. 27.  Stapélia species 
of authors. 
Lin, syst. Pentdndria, Digynia. Corolla rotate, 5-cleft. Li- 
gulz or segments of the exterior corona distinct, rufous, oblong, 
cuneated and recurved at the apex, channel-formed: those of 
the inner corona rectangularly incurved, unciform or pediform, 
short, rufous, length of the ligule, and adnate to them; bear- 
ing at the base large, didymous, yellow anthers. Between the 
corona and the angles of the style, there are 3 stigmas, 2 of 
which are anther-formed, the other black and dot-formed ; and 
from this dot there runs down an oblong, very minute, bifid, 
yellow ligula.—Succulent shrubs, with the habit of Stapelia ; 
but the branches are more slender and divaricate. Flowers 
fascicled. Pedicels length of the corolline segments. 
1 G. pivarica‘ra (Haw. syn. p. 27.) branches numerous, te- 
tragonal, glabrous, gradually attenuated : with small, erect teeth ; 
corolla quite glabrous; segments lanceolate, spreading, with 
revolute ciliated edges. h. S. Native of the Cape of Good 
Hope. Stapélia divaricàta, Mass. stap. p. 17. t. 22. Sims, bot. 
mag. 1007. Branches floriferous in the middle, or at the base. 
Pedicels twin or tern. Segments of exterior corona roundish, 
obtuse, mucronate. Corolla shining, greenish brown outside, 
and flesh-coloured inside, tipped with green. Corona orange- 
coloured. 
Divaricate- branched Gonostemon. 
Shrub 4 foot. 
2 G. Pa'LLIDA ; branches erect, short, tetragonal, glabrous : 
with short, deciduous teeth ; corolla glabrous; segments acute, 
ciliated ; pedicels aggregate, rising above the base of the 
branches; segments of outer corona spreading, in the figure 
sub-tridentate ; of the interior one erect and bluntish. k. S. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Stapélia pallida, Wendl. 
coll. 2. p. 39. t. 51. Corolla pale yellow, verging to flesh- 
coloured ; the segments tipped with greenish yellow. Corona 
yellow. 
Pale-yellow Gonostemon. FI. July, Sept. Clt. 1818. Shrub 
i foot. 
3 G. srricra (Haw. suppl. pl. succ. p. 12.) corollas naked, 
flat; branches erect. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Stapélia stricta, Sims, bot. mag. 2037. Branches slenderer than 
in the preceding. 
V. Gonostemon. VI. PopantHEs. 
Fl. Ju. Nov. Clit. 1793. 
Straight Gonostemon. Fl. Ju. Nov. Clt. 1814. Shrub 4 
foot. 
Cult. For culture and propagation see Stapélia, above. 
VI. PODA'NTHES (from rovc rodoc, pous podos, a foot; 
and a»3oc, anthos, a flower; in allusion to the flowers being on 
long pedicels.) Haw. syn. p. 32.—Stapélia species of authors. 
Lin. syst. Pentándria, Monogy'nia. Corolla 5-cleft, wrinkled ; 
with a broad, campanulate bottom, girded by a tumid orbicle. 
Ligule, or segments of the exterior corona, combined to the 
middle, channel-formed, rhomboid, deeply emarginated, or cu- 
neately 2-lobed ; those of the inner corona simple, short, form 
of a reversed foot, alternating with the ligule, incurvedly and 
closely adpressed to the style ; the rest as in Stapélia.—Habit of 
Stapélia; but the branches are much more slender, effusely de- 
cumbent and weak, rooting at the base, obsoletely 4-5-angled ; 
with much larger, deltoid-acuminated, ascending, thick teeth, 
but terminated by a less manifest leaf. 
1 P. rv'rcugA (Haw. syn. p. 32.) weak and much branched ; 
flowers twin, semi-quinquefid, corrugated, with a minutely pilose 
bottom. h.S. Native of the Cape of Good Hope.  Stapélia 
verrucosa, Hort. but not of Mass. Flowers on long, bent 
pedicels. Segments of corolla deltoid acuminated, green out- 
side, and sulphur-coloured inside, warted ; warts numerous, 
