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STAPELIA BuUFONIS. ‘TOAD-FLOWERED 
STAPELIA. 
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Cla/s and Order. 
PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Generic Charaéler. 
Afclepiadea. Neéar. duplici flellula tegente genitalia. 
Specific Chara&er and Synonyms. 
STAPELIA Bufonis; ramis fimplicibus: fpinis cruciatim op-. 
pofitis re€tis, corollis quinquefidis rugofiffimis, laciniis nec- 
tarii infimi bidentatis: dentibus divaricatis. 
STAPELIA Bufonia. Donn Cantab. 
ORBEA éufonia. Haworth Succul. p. 40. 
STAPELIA Variegata (fupra No. 26.) S. pifa (fupra No. 1169) 
and our prefent plant, S. Bufouis, are very nearly related, and 
perhaps may be by fome thought to be rather varieties than dif- 
ferent fpecies. There is, however, fo confiderable a difference 
in the herbage, as well as in the colour of the corolla, that we 
can but think that cultivators are juftified in confidering them to 
be diftin&t. The form of the neélaria would probably decide 
with more certainty, but this part not having been attended to 
with a view to their affording diftinguifhing charaéters, entire 
confidence cannot be put in the accuracy of reprefentations. The 
latter have certainly the lacinie of the netlary bifid, and the 
teeth are longer and more divaricate in Bufonis than in piéia. In 
the figure this part is reprefented entire in variegata, on which 
account Mr. Haworrs confiders it not to be the variegata of 
Linnzus. But it is neceflary that thefe parts fhould be care- 
fully compared in the living fpecimens, before any thing can 
be determined. Our prefent plant has been fo well named, that 
were all the fpecies to be feen flowering together, the likenefs to 
that loathfome animal which has fuggefted its appellation, would 
infallibly point it out. 
Flowers in Auguft and September. Native of the Cape of 
Good-Hope. Requires the fame treatment as the reft. Our 
drawing was taken fome years back at the late Mr. WacKer’s, 
at Stockwell, 
