936 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [ Stapelia. 
wholly to the inner horn, 14-2 lin. broad, subacute to truncate 
and usually denticulate at the top; inner horn triquetrous to 
broadly winged-triquetrous, acute, obtuse or toothed at the apex, 
sometimes but shortly exceeding the dorsal wing; follicles erect, 
6-7 in. long, 1-3 in. thick, tapering into a long beak and into a 
stalk-like base about } in. long, pubescent. Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1279 ; 
Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 278 ; Poir. Encycl. vii. 379, and in Dict. Sc. Nat. 1. 
390 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1240; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 86; Haw. Syn. 
Pl. Succ. 20; Allg. Teutsch. Gart. Mag. 1815, 110, t. 11 (ew Schultes) ; 
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 206 ; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 19; Spreng. Syst. 
Veg. i. 837; Geel, Sert. Bot. ii.; Reichenb. Fl. Exot. v. 11, t. 303 5 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 115; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 884; Decne in DC. 
Prodr. viii. 654; N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. under t. 1911; 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 483. 
Wesrern Recion: Little Namaqualand ; Kamiesberg Range, Masson, Barkly, 
28! Springbokfontein, Alston in Herb. Pillans, 650! 651! 14 miles north-west 
rs spe agy Alston in Herb, Pillans | and without precise locality, Scully! Herb. 
illans, 2! 
2. §. hirsuta (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 217); stems erect, 4-angled, 
5-8 or occasionally up to 12 in. high, }—} in. square, with com- 
pressed angles and erect rudimentary leaves }—1 lin. long at the 
teeth, softly puberulous, green ; flowers 1-3 together near the base 
of the young stems, successively developed ; pedicels 14-4 in. long, 
2-21 lin. thick, velvety puberulous ; sepals 4-6 lin. long, lanceolate 
or linear-lanceolate, acute, velvety-puberulous ; corolla 4-5 in. in 
diam. with the lobes extended, rather minutely puberulous on the 
back, transversely rugose on the inner surface, with the flat disk 
and basal fourth part of the lobes densely covered with soft purple 
hairs 2-3 lin. long, somewhat intermingled or matted (woolly- 
looking in dried flowers), the remaining part of the lobes glabrous, 
but ciliate to their tips with rather coarser long simple pale purple 
or whitish hairs, half of them directed inwards, very dark purple- 
brown at the apical half and marked with transverse cream-coloured 
or yellowish and purple-brown lines on the basal half of the lobes, 
passing into cream-colour more or less tinted with purplish on the 
disk ; lobes 13-2} in. long, about 1 in. broad, lanceolate, acute, flat, 
recurved ; outer corona-lobes ascending-spreading with recurved tips, 
about 3 lin. long, linear or narrowly oblong-linear, tapering or 
rounded at the apex into a subulate point, which sometimes has a 
minute tooth on each side at its base, channelled down the face, dark 
purple-brown, ochreous-tinted at the base ; inner corona-lobes ascend- 
ing, 4~44 lin. long, blackish, with the dorsal wing adnate for the whole 
of its length to the inner horn and truncate and toothed at the top 
or adnate for 1-3 of its length and produced beyond into a deltoid 
obtuse or acute point shorter than or equalling the inner horn and 
more or less toothed on the inner margin ; inner horn with the free 
part triquetrous-subulate, acute, slightly curved, not hooked at the 
apex. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, ii. 194; Burm, Fl. Cap. Prodr. 7 ; 
