Mim a a 
Tas. 6082. 
STAPELIA CorDEROYI. 
Native of South Africa. 
Nat. Ord. AscLerrapEZ.—Tribe STAPELIER. 
Genus Srapetia, Linn. ; (Decaisne in DC. Prodr., vol. viii. p. 652). 
STaPenia (Duvalia) Corderoyi ; humilis, glaberrima, glauca, ramulis brevibus 
obesis procumbentibus ovoideo-oblongis obtusis sub-4-costatis, costis 
rotundatis remote dentatis, sinubus acutis, dentibus brevibus triangulari- 
subulatis patentibus basi carnosis et utrinque unituberculatis, corolla 
13-2 poll lata ad medium 5-loba, lobis triangularibus acuminatis 
sordide viridibus marginibus recurvis, apices versus fusco-purpurascen- 
tibus, sinubus setoso-glandulosis, fauce elevata pallide-lilacina filamentosa, 
Corona staminea duplici breviter stipitata purpurea, exteriore e disco 
crasso obtuse 5-gono, interiore e cornubus 5 brevibus crassis ovoideis 
. exteriore impositis. 
T am quite unable to identify this very curious little 
Stapelia with any described species, though it clearly belongs | 
to Haworth’s section Duvalia. In habit, size, and form of 
branches it agrees with S. cespitosa, Mass., but the flowers 
are very much larger, and of a totally different form and 
colour. 'T'o the same division belong S. radiata (Tab. nost. 
619) and S. reclinata (Tab. nost. 1397) ; but these have, like 
8. cespitosa, small dark-coloured flowers, with very narrow 
corolla-lobes. pes 
T have named this very curious and distinct species after . 
Mr. Justus Corderoy, of Blewberry, near Didcot, an old and 
an eminent cultivator of succulent plants, and for many years 
a valued correspondent of the Royal Gardens. It flowered at 
lewberry in September of last year. 
Descr. Branches short, procumbent, very stout, glaucous, 
about two inches long by three-quarters of an inch in dia- 
meter, very pale green and fleshy, obtusely 4—5-ribbed, the 
ribs Semi-cylindric with an acute sinus between them, each 
bearing two to four short triangular teeth, which are fleshy 
at the base, and there furnished with a globose tubercle on 
each side. Peduncles solitary or in pairs, about an inch long, 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1874. 
