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STAPELIA RETICULATA. NETTED-FLOWERED 
7 STAPELIA,. 
JHE sea tba 
Cla/s and Order. 
PentTanpria Dicynia. 
Generic Charaéer. 
Afclepiadea, Neéfarium duplici ftellula tegente genitalia, 
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. 
STAPELIA reticulata ; ramis pentagonis denticulatis: dentibugs 
patentibus, corolla decemangulata, tubo intus barbato 
ampliato in orbiculum elevatum. Maffon Slap. P. Qe Us &. be Be 
STAPELIA, reticulata; corolla decemdentata ; laciniis majori- 
bus ovatis acutis, fundo barbato orbiculo elevato cinéto, 
pedunculis binis corolla brevioribus ramjs pentagonis patulis 
bafi floriferis, Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p.1295. Hort. Kew. ed, alt, 
2. p. 96. 4 
HUERNIA, Browy Afclep, in Mem. Wern. Soc, 1. p. 22. 
The eleyated ring which furrounds the mouth of the tube in 
this fpecies is not fo well exprefled in our drawing as it ought to 
have been. The light parts of the flower in Masson’s figure 
are much whiter, and ryn in crofs lines more like the mefhes 
ofa net. Yet from the remarkable five-angled tharg ed 
branches, clouded with purplifh fpots, we haye no doubt of the 
identity of the fpecies. If we miflake not, we were informed that 
Mr. Wooprorp received his plant from Masson _ himfelf, 
under the name of reticulata, as 
This fpecies and the preceding, as well as /entigino/a, No. 506, 
belong to the fame divifion, in which the parts of frutification 
lie at the bottom of the tube, and are feparated into a diftingt 
genus, by Mr. Brown, in his elaborate and ingenious Effay on 
the Natural Order of Afclepiadex, publifhed in the Memoirs of 
the Wernerian Society. To this he has applied the name of 
Huerrnta, “in memory of Justus Heuxnius, one of the 
carlieft colle€tors of Cape planis, and from whofe drawings the 
firft account of SrapeLia was taken.” : 
Grows naturally in the hollows of rocks, near North Olifant’s 
River. Our drawing was taken feveral years ago, from Mr. 
Wooprorp’s collection, late at Vauxhall, in the month of 
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