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Stapelia Pedunculata. Long-Stalked 



Stapelia. 



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Oafs and Order. 

 Pentandria Digynia. 



Generic Char abler. 

 Contorta. NecJarium duplici ftellula tegente genitalia. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



STAPELIA pedunculata ; ramis pluribus divaricatis tetragonis 

 fubdentatis, pedunculis longiffimis corolla quin- 

 quefida : laciniis lanceolatis margine revolutis, 

 angulis fimbriatis. Maff. Stap. n. 21. /. 2 v.. 



STAPELIA pedunculata. mild. Sp. PL 1. 1284. 



This very diftin6t fpecies of Stapelia may be at once known 

 from all its congeners by the extraordinary length of the 

 peduncles ; and even when out of flower the appearance of 

 the branches is different from every other: the angles in thefe 

 are fo obfcure as to render them almofl cylindrical, and the 

 teeth refemble warty excrefcences, being nearly, and in many 

 places entirely, obliterated. The peduncles are defcribed by 

 Masson to grow, as in our drawing, from the underfide of 

 the young branches, and we have never obierved them to de- 

 viate from this fituation ; but in his figure they are made to 

 ifl'ue from the upper furface, and the flowers in confequence 

 to ftand ere£t. We have obferved a confiderable difference 

 in the intenfity of the colour of the corolla, and Masson 

 mentions two varieties, one with brown-purple, the other with 

 yellowifh flowers. Found by this afliduous collector in the 

 dry country at the Cape, about Camies Berg, and introduced 

 by him to the Kew Garden, about the year 1784. 



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

 latter-end of laft June. Requires the fame treatment as the 

 reft of the genus, and is by no means fo fliy of flowering as 

 fame, of the fpecies, 



