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STAPELIA GEiMINATA. TwiN-FLOWERED 



Stapelia. 



Oafs and Order, 

 Pentandria Digynia. 



Generic Character. 



Contorta. Cor. rotata. Necl. ftellula duplex tegens genitalia. 

 Folliculi 2. Sent, plumofa. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



STAPELIA geminates ramis oblongis fubtetragonis dentatis: 

 dentibus parvis, fioribus geminatis, corollas la- 

 ciniis lanceolatis acutis margine revolutis. Mjjf* 

 p\ 18. n. 25. /. 25. Pcrfoon Syn. t. p. 280. 



STAPELIA geminata ; corollis quinquefidis, laciniis lanceo- 

 latis, margine revoluus, pedunculis geminatis 

 longitudine corollas, ramis decumbentibus tere- 

 tibus apice floriferis. Willd. Sp. PL 1. p. 1290. 



We received both this fpecies and puntlata from the Rev. 

 Sackville Bale, at Withyam, near Tunbridge-Wells, in 

 September 1802. They had both flowered in very great per- 

 fection, but owing to an accidental delay in the delivery of 

 his letter, they did not arrive in a ftate fit for drawing. The 

 figure here given was drawn from the collection of the late 

 Jos. Walker, Efq. at Stockwell. 



There are fometimes more than two flowers from the fame 

 point, but feldom more in flower at nearly the fame time. The 

 corolla is villous withinftde and deeply divided into five kg- 

 ments, with the margins fomewhat rolled back. The branches 



are 



