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Stapelia Revoluta, Revolute* 

 Flowered Stapelia. 



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Clafs and Order. 

 Pentandria Digynia. 



Generic Charafler. 

 Contorta. Neilarium duplici ftellula tegente genitalia, 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



STAPELIA revoluta; ramis tetragonis ereftis dcnticulatis : 

 dentibus patentibus, corolla glabra, laciniis ci- 

 liatis acutis revolutis. Maff. Stap. 12. /. 10. 



STAPELIA revoluta; corollis quinquefidis glabris, laciniis 

 ovatis margine pilofis revolutis, pedunculis co- 

 rolla brevioribus, caule tetragono bafi ramofo 

 ereclofuperne florifero. Willd. Sp.PL v.x.t. 1277. 



The Stapelia revoluta is very little branched ; branches 

 quite ereft, long, quadrangular, with the fides hollowed out : 

 teeth obtufe, patent. Flowers fubfolitary on very fhort pe- 

 duncles. Segments of the calyx acute. Corolla fmooth, very 

 flefhy : fegments revolute, margin fringed with club-fhaped 

 vibratory glands, quivering with the leaft breath of air. Nec'lary 

 fmall, funk in a hollow with a contracted opening : fegments 

 five, radiate, oval, ferrate at the tip; between each fegment is a 

 horn-like bipartite procefs, the internal branch of which is 

 longer, ereft, and dilated at the point ; the external one is 

 fhorter, patent, and acute. Between each of thefe horns is 

 placed a black mining gland to which the lobes of the anther 

 or, as called by fome, pollen mafTes, in every fpecies of Stapelia 

 we have examined, are attached. Thefe lobes in molt fpecies 

 lie concealed under the horn-like proceffes, but in this they 

 feem expofed to the air, only covered with a thicker coat than 

 ufual of a dull purple colour. In fome fpecimens the minute 

 variegation below the fegments of the corolla is not feen, but 

 the whole of this part is of an uniform colour. A native of the 

 Cape of Good-Hope, growing under {hrubs in dry fields in 

 Karro beyond Noord Olifant's River, flowering in Septem- 

 ber and O&ober. 



Our drawing was taken at Mr. Woodford's, Vauxhall, in 

 July 1801. We have likewife a drawing of the fame fpecies, 

 taken at Meffrs. Grimwood and Wykes's. Cultivation the 

 fame as for the other fpecies. 



