924 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Diplocyatha. 
smooth and glabrous outside, densely papillate-rugose on the inner- 
face, according to Thunberg and Masson, greyish, with the tips of 
the papille reddish, but according to Masson's figure, pale yellowish 
with a greyish ring around the mouth of the tube, minutely dotted 
with red ; tube campanulate, apparently slightly raised at its mouth 
around the very thick recurved papillate-rugose rim of the inner 
tube, which is densely covered with stiff purple hairs at the base 
around and under the corona; lobes about 1 in. long, 3—} in. broad, 
spreading, ovate, acute, ciliate from base to apex with clavate 
vibratile white hairs; outer corona-lobes arising above the base of 
the staminal column, connate at the base, somewhat spreading, with 
the free part 2-3 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, transverse or subquadrate, 
very obtusely or subacutely bifid, glabrous, apparently yellowish 
dotted with purple-brown ; inner corona-lobes incumbent on the 
backs of the anthers, about } lin. long, thick, ovate, acute, or 
acuminate with the tips produced into a very short erect point, 
apparently yellowish, dotted and marked with purple-brown. 
Diplocyathus ciliatus, K. Schum. in Engl. und Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iv. ii. 281 and 279, fig. 84, G-H.; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 
485. Stapelia ciliata, Thunb. Prodr. 46; Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 168, 
and ed. Schultes, 240 ; Masson, Stap. 9, t. 1; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1277 ; 
Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 277; Poir. Encycl. vii. 377 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 
ii. 85; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 31; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 837 ; Loud. 
Encycl. Pl. 200, fig. 3314; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 884; Decne in DG.» 
Prodr. viii. 655. Podanthes ciliata, Haw. Syn. Pl. Suce. 34 ; G. Don, 
Gen. Syst. iv. 118. Tromotriche ciliata, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 358. 
CenTraL Recion: Calvinia Div.; near Hantam, Meyer! (Herb. Berlin). 
Ceres Div. ; Karoo between the Roggeveld Mountains and Paarde Berg, Thun- 
berg! Karoo between Bokkeveld and Paarde Berg (ex Banks’ MSS. at British 
Museum), Masson. Beaufort West Div. ; Nieuwveld, between Rbenoster Kop and 
Ganzefontein, Drége, 6396! Prince Albert Div. ; Karoo near Prince Albert, 
- Marloth, 4570 ! 
Thunberg states that the flowers of this plant have scarcely any odour. The 
Paarde Berg above mentioned, according to Thunberg’s travels, is situated between 
Ongeluks River and Doorn River. 
LI. STAPELIA, Linn. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla rotate or broadly cup-shaped or with a 
short broad cup- or funnel-like tube or with a central cavity con- 
taining the corona, with or without a raised ring (annulus) on the 
disk around the corona, 5-lobed; lobes valvate in bud. Corona 
double, arising from the staminal column ; outer corona of 5 simple 
entire, bifid, 3-toothed or deeply 3-fid lobes alternating with the 
anthers, quite free or rarely shortly connected at the base, very 
rarely of 10-15 free segments or subequally 10-toothed; inner 
corona of 5 simple, bifid, 2-horned or dorsally winged or crested 
lobes opposite and incumbent at their base or wholly upon the 
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