PAB. SL1G; 
DECABELON E ELEGANS. 
Native of Angola. 
Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADACE.—Tribe STAPELLE. 
Gen. Cuar.—Calyz brevis, 5-partitus, foliolis acuminatis, glandulis herbaceis 
acutis interdum introrsum interpositis. Corolla anguste campanulata, 
lurida; tubo externe striis maculisque brunneo-purpureis consperso, 
interne pilis papilleformibus deflexis instructo; limbo 5-fido, laciniis 
acutis, deltoideis, paullo revolutis. Gynostegium imo tubo conditum. 
Corone staminee lacinie 5, submonadelphe, alte bifide, in fila gracillima 
apice capitato-incrassate attenuate. <Anthere ovate, obtuse, dorso ap- 
pendice ligulata incumbente; masse pollinis horizontales, compress, 
subreniformes, funiculo appendice membranacea lineari munito. Stigma 
muticum, disciforme.—Herbe stapelieformes Africe australis preecipue 
tropice incole. : 
DecaBetone elegans; caulibus ramisque stapeliseformibus angulato-costatis, 
costis sepissime 6 spinosis, spinis setis lateralibus duabus erectis armatis, 
floribus vel e ramulorum axillis vel ad fundum inter costas ortis, coron® 
staminee laciniis basi connatis albis, sursum in fila bina capitata atro- 
violacea gracillima attenuatis. 
Decasetone elegans, Dene. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 5° sér. t. xiii. p. 404, pl. 2. 
During the month of June of the present year this ex- 
tremely interesting plant flowered for the first time in 
England, in the collection of J. T. Peacock, Esq., of Sudbury 
House, Hammersmith. A few weeks later flowers were also 
produced by plants in the Royal Gardens, Kew. The plate 
has been drawn from Mr. Peacock’s specimen, a compliment 
which is no more than is due to the zeal and enterprise which 
he has shown in the cultivation of succulent plants. | His 
plant has been grafted on a Stapelia, probably S. Planttt. It 
was obtained from Herr Pfersdorf, under the name of Deca- 
belone Sieberi, but it appears to be identical with the pat 
described and figured by Decaisne, which was also obtaine 
. 
from the same cultivator, though the precise native origin 
was unknown. ; : 
The Kew plants were obtained direct from Angola, through 
the aid of Mr. Monteiro, to whom botanical science is under 
many obligations in elucidating the still little known cere 
of that country, and was found by him at Ambriz, s out 
three miles from the sea, in sand, near a salt marsh or “ flat. 
AuGUST Ist, 1874. 
