Stapelia.] ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 935 
Annulus very prominent, with an acute edge to 
the horizontally spreading or recurved margin, 
which forms a broad rim to the cup ; inner 
surface of corolla glabrous, rugose ; lobes 4-1 
in. long, with or without a minute ciliation of 
thick or clavate hairs; see also hybrid forms 
74 to 96. 
Outer horn of the inner corona-lobes not more 
than half as long as the inner horn, usually 
less ; corolla-lobes not ciliate ; 
Corolla 14 in. in diam., with lobes about 6 lin. 
long, pale yellow, with rather small 
scattered purple-brown spots; pedicels 
3-1 in. long rn £3 bas ... (68) lepida. 
Corolla 23-24 in. in diam., with lobes 8-10 
lin. long, thickly covered with dark 
purple-brown spots and irregular thick 
lines on a pale greenish-yellow ground ; 
pedicels 14-13 in. long ... ive ... (69) variegata, var. 
brevicornis. 
Corolla 13-2 in. in diam., blackish-purple or 
very dark purple-brown, with a few 
irregular yellow markings — ... (69) variegata, var. 
marmorata, 
Outer horn of the inner corona-lobes from more 
than half as long to quite as long as the 
inner horn ; corolla 2-32 in. in diam., lobes 
with or without a minute ciliation... ... (69) variegata, vars. 
and hybrids, 
see separate 
key. 
1. S. pulvinata (Masson, Stap. 13, t. 13); plant about 4 in. high, 
branching at the base ; stems erect, decumbent at the base, 6-7 lin. 
square, with compressed angles having erect rudimentary leaves 
4-1 lin. long at the rather prominent teeth, softly pubescent, dull 
green ; flowers solitary near the base of the stems; pedicels 1}—2? 
(in fruit about 3) in. long, 24 (in fruit 4) lin. thick, velvety ; sepals 
4-6 lin. long, 14-1} lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, velvety ; corolla in 
bud flattened, with 5 depressions around the short conical point, 
when expanded 4—44 in. in diam., minutely puberulous on the back ; 
disk on the inner face and basal part of the lobes very densely 
covered with a thick cushion of fine soft purple hairs ; lobes 14-13 
in. long, 1-1} in. broad, roundish-oblong or ovate, usually rather 
abruptly contracted into an obtuse point }—} in. long, below which 
they are remarkably concave on the back, so that the point is 
abruptly recurved and then directed outwards, rugose and glabrous — 
on the inner face, but densely ciliate and bordered with long soft 
purple hairs, dark purple-brown, marked with transverse yellow 
lines on the basal two-thirds; outer corona-lobes ascending-spread- 
ing, 24-3 lin. long, }-1 lin. broad, lanceolate, or narrowly oblong- 
linear, acuminate or 3-toothed at the recurved apex, channelled 
down the face, dark purple-brown ; inner corona-lobes ascending- 
spreading, 5-54 lin. long, fuscous or dark brownish-purple with 
(always?) dull ochreous tips, with the dorsal wing adnate for ? or 
