Stapelia. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). 501 
1. S. gigantea, V. L. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1877, vii. 684 and 693, 
Jjig.112. Stems 4-8 in. high, 1-1} in. thick, erect, shortly decumbent 
at the base and there branching, somewhat clavate, 4-angled, 
pubescent, green; angles compressed, toothed. Leaves 1-1} lin. long, 
erect, acute, pubescent. Cymes near the base of the young stems, few- 
flowered ; pedicels 1-2 in. long, stout, becoming } in. thick when in 
fruit, pubescent. Sepals 5-6 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate. Corolla pentagonal and very acuminate in bud, 9-12 in, in 
diam. when expanded, rotate, nearly flat on the disk, 5-lobed to ? the 
way down, pubescent on the back, rugose on the face, pale yellow, 
suffused with reddish-purple around the corona, everywhere marked 
with irregular pale reddish-purple transverse lines, and covered with 
erect fine pale purple hairs; lobes 4-5} in. long, 13-2} in. broad, 
ovate-lanceolate, very acuminate, widely spreading, with recurved 
margins. Outer coronal-lobes spreading, 2/—3 lin. long, broadly linear- 
oblong, slightly widened upwards, subtruncate, with a short middle 
tooth or obscurely 3-toothed, dark purple-brown, glabrous; inner 
coronal-lobes 2-horned, dark purple-brown, glabrous ; outer horn wing- 
like, 24 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, suberect, deltoid-lanceolate, obtuse, 
entire; inner horn 2 lin. long, triquetrous-subulate, erect. Follicles 
about 6 in. long, ? in. thick, erect, very slightly diverging, subcylin- 
dric, obtusely pointed, pubescent.—Gard. Chron. 1888, iv. 728, fig. 
101; Bot. Mag. t. 7068; Journ. Hort. 1890, xxi. 349 and 359, fig. 41 ; 
Gard. & For. viii. 515; Cactus Journ. i. 23. 
Lower Guinea. Damaraland: Walfish Bay, cultivated specimens, MacOwan 
§ Bolus Herb. Norm. aust.-Afr., 921! 
Mozamb. Dist. Brit'sh Central Africa: Nyasaland; Namasi, Cameron, 1! 
Also in South Africa. 
2. S. vaga, V. LZ. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 265. Stems not seen. 
Pedicels 14-2 in. long, glabrous, moderately stout. Sepals 34 lin. long, 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. Corolla star-like, 2} in. in diam. 
or more? apparently dark purple-brown ; lobes about 1 in. long in the 
dried state, about 5 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, 
rugulose on the face, ciliate with long clavate vibratile purple hairs, 
otherwise glabrous. Outer coronal-lobes 14-1}? lin. long, oblong, 4- 
toothed at the apex; two outer teeth a little lower down than the 
inner two; inner coronal-lobes two-horned; inner horn 1} lin, long, 
erect, subulate, recurving at the apex; outer horn similar, but much 
shorter. 
Lower Guinea. (German South-west Africa: Amboland; Olukonda, Schinz! 
3. S. kwebensis, V. #. Br. Plant about 6 in. high, branching at 
the base. Stems about } in. thick, 4-angled, puberulous; angles 
shortly toothed. Leaves 14-24 lin. long, % lin. broad, subulate- 
lanceolate, acute, erect, puberulous. Cymes from near the base of the 
younger stems, subsessile, few-flowered ; bracts 1} lin. long, lanceolate, 
acute, puberulous; pedicels 1-1} lin. long, shortly pubescent. Sepals 
24 lin. long, 2-1 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, shortly pubescent. 
