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Stapelia pulvinata. Cushioned 

 Stapelia. 



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Pentandria Digynia* 



Generic Char after. 

 Neftar. duplici ftellula tegente genitalia. 



Specific Charafter arid Synonyms. 



STAPELIA pulvinata; ramis reclinatis, corollis quinquefidis: 

 laciniis fubrotundis rugofis acuminatis ciliatis, 

 fundo elevato denfiflime pilofo. 



STAPELIA pulvinata. Majfon Stap. p. 13. /. 13. Willi. 

 Sp. PL 1279. Martyn Mill. Dift. n. 7. 



This fpecies is one of the moft fplendid in the genus, but 

 the colours are not ufually fo bright as in the fpecimen from' 

 which our drawing was made, fome years ago, at Mr. Wood- 

 ford's late garden at Vauxhall. 



' It was introduced by Mr. Masson from the C?pe, where it 

 grows among bufhes, about Camies-Burg, and is called by the 

 Dutch inhabitants the Arabifche Rofe ; the fenfe of fmelling 

 alone is however fully fufficient to expel every idea of affinity 

 with that fragrant genus. 



