500 LXXXV, ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). | Huerniopsis. 
column, very stout and solid, somewhat square in cross-section in the 
lower part, with slightly concave sides and acute angles, erect, shortly 
produced and connivent at the apex over the staminal-column, purplish 
on the back and at the apex, yellowish-green on the sides below the 
middle. Staminal-column 24 lin. long; anthers oblong, obtuse. Apex 
of the style truncate, not exceeding the anthers.—K. Schum. in Engl. 
& Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 277. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: near Windhoek, cultivated 
specimens, Dinter ! 
Also in South Africa. 
The flowers of this plant, so far as I have observed, remain open for about 40 
hours, they usually open towards the latter part of the afternoon and emit their 
rather nauseous odour most strongly during the evening, the next morning it can 
scarcely be detected even close to the flower, so that the flower is probably fertilised 
by a late-flying insect. The coronal-lobes copiously secrete a sweet fluid on their 
backs and sides. In habit the plant has much resemblance to Duvalia polita, 
N. E. Br., and Stapelia atrosanguinea, N. E. Br. 
56. STAPELIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 784. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla rotate or broadly cup-shaped or with a 
short broadly campanulate tube, sometimes with a raised rim on the 
disk around the corona, 5-lobed ; lobes valvate in bud. Corona double, 
arising from the staminal-column; outer corona of 5 lobes free to their 
base; inner corona of 5 simple, or bifid, or two-horned, or broadly 
winged lobes. Staminal-column arising from the bottom of the 
corolla; anthers ascending or inflexed on the top of the style. Pollen- 
masses subhorizontal or somewhat ascending, pellucid along the upper 
part of the inner margin, solitary in each anther-cell, attached in pairs 
to the pollen-carriers by short stout caudicles; pollen-carriers with a 
wing-like expansion on each side, blackish or dark brown.  Follicles 
narrowly fusiform, smooth. Seeds crowned with a tuft of hairs.— 
Dwarf, succulent herbs, branching from the base. Stems 4-5-angled, 
thick and fleshy, toothed along the angles; teeth tipped with very 
small or rudimentary leaves. Flowers in few- or many-flowered 
cymes arising from near the base of the young shoots or arranged 
along the grooves between the angles, pedicellate, large or of moderate 
size. 
Species numerous, all South African except the following. 
See note under Caralluma concerning generic distinction, &c. 
Corolla-lobes 4-53 in. long, hairy on the inner face . 1. S. gigantea. 
Corolla-lobes about 1 in. long in the dried state, 
ciliate with clavate hairs, otherwise glabrous. 
(See also Caralluma lateritia, C. caudata, and C. 
valida) . : : : : é : 
Corolla-lobes 3-% in. long, not ciliate with clavate 
hairs, finely pubescent outside and on the apical 
part within. : : : : ze . 8. S. kwebensis. 
2. S. vaga. 
