( 1833 ) 



Stapelia maculosa. Spotted-flowered 

 Stapelia. 



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Class and Ch'der. 

 Pentandria Digynia 



Generic Character. 

 Asclepiadea. Nectar, duplici stellula tegente genitalia. 

 Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Stapelia maculosa ; orbiculo solido, rostris alisque teretibus 

 obiusis, ligulis trifidis, corollis subtus planissimis ad oras 

 ciiiatis. Jacq Stap. 



Stapelia maculosa ; corollis quinquefidis laevibus planis 

 ciiiatis, fundo orbiculato convexo, coronse exterioris 

 laciniis tridentatis, cornubus binis clavatis approximatis. 

 WiUd. Enum. 283. 



Stapelia maculosa. Donn Cant. ed. 1, % 8$ 3. sed mixta 

 ed. posteriorum. 



Orbea maculosa. Haworth Succul. p. 37. 



Stapelia variegata (No. 26.)— picta (No. 1 169.) — Bufonis 

 (No 1676.) and maculosa, are nearly-allied species, and are, 

 with some others, separated into a distinct genus by Mr. 

 Haworth, under the name of Orbea. 



The venerable Jacquin's splendid work on the genus 

 Stapelia, though published several years ago, owing to the 

 unsettled state of the Continent, has not till very lately 

 reached this country. In his figure of our present plant, the 

 light parts of {he flower are a deeper yellow, and the stalks 

 more slender and brown -coloured, circumstances very liable 

 to vary, but in other respects it does not differ from the one 

 here given. 



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