tae tht 
cates T(r 
STAPELIA CAMPANULATA. BELL-sHAPED 
STAPELIA. 
SRA RS ee de deat ak aha ge 
- Clafs and Order, 
PENTANDRIA Dicynra, 
Generic Charaer. 
Afclepiadea. Neétarium duplici ftellula tegente genitalia, 
Speciic Charadler and Synonyms, 
STAPELIA campanulaia; ramis plurimis fimplicibus ereétis 
tetragonis dentatis: dentibus patentibus acutis, corolla 
decemfida campanulata fcabra, tubo barbato. Maffon Stap. 
p- 11.” 6. 7. 6. ran 
STAPELIA campamlata.; corollis decemdentatis : laciniis 
majoribus lanceolatis ; fundo campanulato, pedunculis tri- . 
floris, ramis eretis tetragonis bafi floriferis. Willd, Sp. Pl. 1. 
P. 1293. Hort. Kev. ed. alt. 2. p. 95. . 
. tort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 9 
HUERNIA. Brown Afclep. in Mem. Wern. Soc. 1. p. 22. 
Our figure will be obferved | er in fome refpeéts from 
that of Masson, and has been uppofed to be a diftin {pecies ; 
but we can fee no good reafon for fuch a conclufion. In 
Masson’s figure, the colour of the {pots is feen on the outfide 
of the corolla, but we have obferved the fame difference in 
fome other {pecies, which may probably be owing to our plants 
being blown under glafs, and confequently expofed to a leffer 
degree of light, as well as of air, which leffens the intenfity of 
colour in molt flowers, o : 
The branches are generally four-angled, rarely five-angled 5 
and the tube of the corolla is filled with a club-fhaped 
pubelcence, as defcribed by Masson. oF 
Our drawing was taken from a plant that flowered at 
Mr. Vene’s, in Auguit 1813. We received the fame from 
Meffis, Lopprczs, fome years ago, ae 
