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Stapelia Lentiginosa. Freckled 

 Stapelia. 



Clafs and Order. 

 Pentandria Digynia. 



Generic Character. 

 Contorta. Neclar. duplici ftellula 5-phylIa tegente genitalia. 



Specific Character. 



STAPELIA lentiginofa, corollis decem-dentatis, laciniis al- 

 tcrnis obfoletis, fundo concavo orbiculo eievato 

 cintlo; caulibus fuperne ramofis, ramis penta- 

 gonis patentibus tuberculofis : tuberculis unci- 

 natis. 



When the Hortus Kewenfis of Mr. Ay ton was publifhed, 

 there were only five fpecies of Stapelia known in this country, 

 and of thefe two had been newly introduced by Mr. Francis 

 Masson. This laborious inveftigator of nature has fince 

 defcribed and figured forty-one new fpecies, the flowers of 

 many of which are extremely beautiful as well as fingular in 

 their appearance. On carefully examining all thefe fpecies, as 

 well as thofe before known, we cannot find that our plant in 

 every refpeft exactly correfponds with any one of them. In 

 the colour and fhape of the corolla, it agrees very well with 

 the guttata, but in this the flowers fit on longer peduncles, 

 which arife from the bafe of the ftalk, the ftalks are undivided, 

 and the tubercles are not hooked ; on which account we deem 

 ourfelves justified in confidering it as a new fpecies. 



The fpecimen from which our figure was taken, flowered 

 in the collection of E. D. Woodford, Efq. at Vauxhall, laft 

 fummer, who received it from the royal garden at Kew, 

 into which this fpecies alfo was introduced by Mr. Francis 

 Masson. 



For the proper mode of culture, fee our account of Stapelia 

 variegata. 



