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STAPELIA RECLINATA. RECLINING STAPELIA. 
SHIR itebseadede 
Clafs and Order. 
PeENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Generic Charader. 
Contorta, Near. duplici ftellula tegente genitalia. 
Specific Charadier and Synonyms. 
STAPELIA reclinata ; corollis quinquefidis: laciniis lanceo- 
Jatis margine ciliatis: fundo elevato, pedunculis 
corolla longioribus, ramis patentibus tetragonis 
fupra bafin floriferis. Walid. Sp. Pl. 1. 1282. 
Hort. Kew. 2. v. 2. p. 88. 
STAPELIA reclinata; ramis pluribus tetragonis reclinatis 
dentatis: dentibus acutis patentibus, corolla 
quinquefida recurvata;  laciniis _ patentibus 
replicatis fimbriatis. Maffon Stap. p. 19. 1. 28. 
t. 28, aie Soe. 
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StaPenta reclinata, elegans, cefpitefa, and radiata of the 
Botanical Magazine very much refemble each other both in 
the herb and the flower. The laft is moft obvioufly diftin- 
guifhed from the others by the lacinie of the corolla being 
altogether without pubefcence ; elegans by the infide of the 
laciniz being covered with hairs as well as the margin ciliated ; 
reclinata and cae/pitofa have the margin only ciliated, in the 
former the peduncle is longer than the flower, and the exterior 
ftellula of the ne€tary (which in all four {pecies is orbicular and 
- quite entire) is of the fame dark red as the laciniz, but in the 
latter this part is green, and the peduncle only equal to the 
flower in length. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Difcovered by Mr, 
Francis Masson. Introduced in 1795. Flowers through 
moft part of the fummer. Our drawing was made from the 
colle&tion of Mrs. Waker, at Stockwell. | 
