Rower, and confifts of very long white filky hairs, growing 

 from a narrow margin in one rank, but alternately reclining 

 in different directions, chiefly diflichwife ; whereas in hirfuta t 

 the ciliae grow on a broader margin, conftituting a thicker 

 but much fhorter fringe. The parts of fructification, which 

 vary fo much in the different fpecies, though fufficiently dif- 

 ferent in form to mark a diftin£t fpecies, are very fimilar to 

 thofe of hi'rfuta, well figured and defcribed by Jacquin in 

 his Mifcellanea Aiijlriaca y torn. 1. p. 28. tab. 3. We are 

 however by no means convinced that the ApociNEiE Jujf. 

 to which order Stapelia belongs, mould be referred to the clafs 

 decandria, but confider them rather as having five two-lobed 

 anthers, with the lobes diftinft; we would therefore retain 

 them in the clafs pentandria for juft the fame reafon that Prof. 

 Swartz has confidered the Orchideae to be really monand- 

 rous, though arranged by Linnaeus as diandrous. 



Culture the fame as for the reft of the genus, fee No. 536. 

 It does not flower fo readily as many of the others, the buds 

 being very apt to die off, even when far advanced. 



Found by Masson at the Cape of Good Hope, near Son- 

 dags Rivier. 



Our drawing was taken in December, from a fpecimen com- 

 municated by Mr. Loddigrs, Nurferyman at Hackney, who 

 has a large colle&ion of Stapelise. 



