Stapelia. | ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 937 
Miller, Dict. ed. 8, no. 2; Rottb. Bot. Udstrakte Nytte, 63, fig. 11, 
bad; Jacq. Misc. i. 28, t. 3, Amer. Gewéichse, t. 95, and Stap. 
4, 51, 52; Pl. Indig. et Eavt. Ic, t. 111; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, 
i. 309, and ed. 2, ii. 85; Poir. Tabl. Encycl. ii. 325, t. 178; 
FEineycl. vii. 377, and in Dict. Sc. Nat. 1. 389, Planches, iii. 
t. 60; Thunb. Prodr. 46, Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii, 168, and ed. 
Schultes, 240, partly ; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1278, and Enum. Pl. Hort. 
Berol, 281 ; Thornton, Pict. Bot. Pl. t. 23; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 278; 
R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 24; Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 19, and 
Suppl. 9; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 17 ; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 
i. 254; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 839, excl. syn.; Hook. Exot. Fl. iii. 
t. 230; DC. Pl. Grass. t. 160 (not seen); G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 115; 
Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 885, excl. syn.; Decne in DC. Prodr, viii. 653 ; 
N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xvii. 166, #: 11, fig. 18, 19; 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 481, partly this and partly the 
varieties following, excl. syn. S. sororia, Masson. S. hirsuta, Linn., var. 
atra, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 756 ; Loud. Encyel. Pl. 198, fig. 3280 B; G. 
Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 115. 8S. lanifera, Haw. Suppl. Pl. Suce. 8; 
Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 663 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 481. 
S. lanigera, Loud. Hort. Brit. 96; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 115. 
S. pulvinata, J. Donn, Hort. Cantab. ed. 4,53; Gerard in Hortic. 
Univ. vii. 133, with fig., not of Masson. S. villosa, N. E. Br. in Hook. 
Ie. Pl. t. 1911.—Apocynum cauliculis longissimis, d&c., Pluk. Almagest. 
Bot. 37. Asclepias aizoides cauliculis longissimis, &c., Moris. Hist. 
iii. 611. Crassa minor, Rupp. Fl. Jen. ed. 1718, 27,  Asclepias 
africana aizoides longioribus foliis, &c., Tourn. Inst. Rei Herb. i. 94. 
Stapelia denticulis ramorum erectis, Linn. Hort. Cliff. 77 ; Royen, Fl. 
Leyd. Prodr. 409; Miller, Fig. Pl. ii. 172, t. 258.  Stapelia 
tuberculis crassis, etc., Burm. Rar. Afr. Pl. 29, t. 12, fig. 1, bad. 
Var. 8, affinis (N. E. Br.); corolla usually 4-44 (rarely 3-34) in. in diam. ; 
inner corona-lobes with the dorsal wing free nearly or quite to the base, ascending- 
spreading, 3-4 lin. long, 3-1 lin. broad at the base, linear-oblong or gradually 
tapering from the base to an acute or obtuse point, entire ; inner horn 4-5 lin. 
long, triquetrous-subulate, acute, recurved-ascending ; otherwise as in the type. 
S. afinis, N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1912. 8. stellaris, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 
1312, not of Haw. S. hirsuta, sheet b of Thunberg’s Herbarium, N. E, Br. in 
Journ. Linn, Soc. xvii. 167, t. 11, fig. 22, 23. 
Var. y, lutea (N. E. Br.); ‘stems rather pale green ; pedicel, calyx and back 
of the corolla greenish-primrose ” (Pillans) ; corolla about 34 in. in diam. with the 
14-1} in. long lobes extended, ‘‘ uniformly bright primrose-yellow on the inner 
surface, without markings, hairs also yellow, like raw silk, turning greyish” 
(Pillans), outer and inner corona-lobes as in var. afinis, but slightly smaller, 
“* bright canary-yellow ” (Pillans). 
Var. 3, patula (N. E. Br.); corolla smaller than in the type, 24-33 (rarely 4) 
in, in diam. ; hairs on the disk rather shorter and less dense than in the type, 
this is especially observable in dried specimens ; lobes 1}-13 in, long, usually lanceo- 
late and nearly or quite twice as long as broad ; inner corona-lobes variable, 
3-4 lin. long, with the dorsal wing either adnate from 4 to all of its length to the 
inner horn or free nearly or quite to the base, truncate and toothed at the top or 
deltoid, narrowly deltoid-lanceolate or oblong, entire or toothed; follicles 
slightly diverging, about 5 in. long, 4-5 lin. thick, fusiform, shortly beaked, 
very minutely and rather thinly puberulous, marked with longitudinal purple- 
