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STAPELIA DIVARICATA. STRADDLING | 
STAPELIA. 
Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Generic Charafer. 
Contorta. Neéar. duplici ftellula tegente genitalia. 
Specific Charaéier and Synonyms. 
STAPELIA divaricata ; ramis pluribus tetragonis divaricatis 
glabris dentatis, dentibus parvis fuberettis, — 
corolla glaberrima quinquefida: laciniis lan- — 
: ceolatis patentibus, margine revolutis ciliatls. 
- .° Maff, Stap. 17. t. 22. a 
STAPELIA divaricata, Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 1. p. 1280. Mart. — 
Mill. Did. n. 10. 2 
The branches of this very diftin&: fpecies of STAPELIAy | 
going off almoft at right angles, and being long and tapering, — 
at once mark it from every other, even when out of bi 
Communicated by J. Watxer, Efg. of Stockwell-Com 
whofe valuable colle€tion contains a great many fpecies of this 
very fingular genus, all of which are natives of the Cape © 
Good- Hope. : 
Flowers the latter-end of the fummer, and requires the 
fame treatment as other fucculent plants from the Cape. 
