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Clafs and Order. 
Pentandria Digynia. 
Generic CharaSler. 
Contorta. Neftarium duplici ftelluh tegente genitalia. 
Specific Char after and Synonyms. 
STAPELIA variegata denticulis ramorum patentibus. Linn. 
Syfi. Vegetab. p. 260. Sp. Pl. p. 31 6. 
ASCLEPIAS aizoides africana. Bradl.Juc. 3 . p. 3. t. 22. 
This very lingular plant is a native of the Cape of Good 
Hope, where it grows and flourilhes on the rocks with the 
Stapelia birjuta. 
If thefe plants be kept in a very moderate ftove in winter, 
and in fummer placed in an airy glafs-cafe where they may 
enjoy much free air, but fcreened from wet and cold, they 
will thrive and flower very well : for although they will live 
in the open air in fummer, and may be kept through the 
winter in a good green-houfe; yet thefe plants will not flower 
fo well as thofe managed in the other way. They muff have 
little water given them, efpecially in winter. 
It is very feldom that the variegata produces feed-veffels in 
this country ; Mi ller obferves, in upwards of forty years 
that he cultivated it, he never faw it produce its pods but 
three times, and then on fuch plants only as were plunged 
into the tan-bed in the ftove. 
This plant may be propagated without feeds, as it grows 
fall enough from flips ; treatment the fame as that of the 
Creeping Cereus, w 7 hich fee. 
It takes its name of Stapelia , from Stapel, a Dutchman, 
author of fome Botanical works, particularly a Defcription of 
Theophrastus’s plants. 
