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Stapelia Verrucosa. Warty-Flowered 



Stapelia. 



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C/tf/} dt«^ Order. 

 Pentandria Digynia. 



Generic Cbaracler, 

 Contorta. Ne&arium duplici ftellula tegente genitalia. 



Specific Cbaracler and Synonyms. 



STAPELIA verrucqfa; ramis pluribus fubere&is, dentibus 

 ramorum acutis decuffatis, corolla plana verru- 

 cofa, medio parum elevata in pentagonum, 

 genitalia ambiens, fcabrum. Maffon Stap. p, 

 11. n. 8. /. 8. 



STAPELIA verrucqfa. Willd. Sp. PI. i. 1291. 



Desc. Branches aflurgent; teeth diftant, horizontal. Pe- 

 duncles near the bafe of the branch, fometimes from the fork 

 of the divifion either folitary or two together ; fometimes longer 

 than the flower, at others fhorter. Corolla fubcampanulate, 

 five-cleft halfway : laciniae acute, revolute at the point, yellow, 

 fpotted with dark purple : bottom concave : margin (lightly 

 raifed into an obtufely pentagonal ring; organs of fructification 

 raited on a fhort thick fpotted column ; under ftar erecr., 

 laciniae emarginate ; upper ftar five yellow oval bodies. 



This fpecies of Stapelia does not exactly correfpond with 

 the verrucqfa of Masson, but fo nearly agrees in the moft 

 material points that we do not hefitate in confidering it as 

 the fame. The colour in the branches is accidental and ap- 

 pears to be owing to keeping the plant very dry. 



Our drawing was taken at Meffrs. Whitly and Brame's, 

 Old Brompton, the description from a plant fent us by Joseph 

 Walker, Efq. who has a very copious collection of Stapelias, 

 among other rare plants, in his extenfive collection at Stock- 

 well. 



