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Stapelia Grandiflora. Great-Flowered 



Stapelia. 



Cfc/jr £fl# Order* 



PeNTANBRIA DlGYNIA, 



Generic Character* 

 Co'ntorta. Net?, duplici ftellula tegente genitalia. 



Specific Character and Synonyms, 



STAPELIA grandiflora ; rami's quadrangularibus clavatis : 

 angulis dentatatis : dentibus remotis incurvatis, 

 corolla magna plana quinquefida : laciniis lan- 

 ceolatis acutis margine ciliatis. Majfon. Stap* 

 p. 13. n. n. /• 11. 



Stapelia grandiflora. wuu. sp. pi. 1. 1278. 



This Stapelia has the largefl flowers of any of the whole 

 genus, the corolla meafuring, when fully expanded, in the fpe- 

 cimen from which our drawing was taken, fix inches in dia- 

 meter, and is equally offenfive to the fmell as any of its con- 

 geners. More nearly allied to Stapelia hirfuta than to any 

 °ther ; but befides a confiderable difference in the branches, is 

 oiftinguifhed by fegments more acute and covered with hairs to 

 a greater extent ; not only the centre of the flower, as in hirfuta % 

 but more than half the fegments, being thickly clothed with a 

 kit of fine foft filky hairs of a reddifli purple colour. The tips 

 °i the flower are of a very black purple colour and naked, ex- 

 Ce pt the fringe on die edge, which alfo furrounds the reft of the 



flower^ 



