940 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [ Stapelia. 
are slightly longer and denser along 5 lines radiating from the 
centre to the sinuses between the lobes, the latter 14—1? in. long, 
9-11 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, densely ciliate to their tips with 
long simple purple hairs, half of them directed inwards; outer 
corona-lobes ascending-spreading with recurved tips, 3 lin. long, 
linear or oblong-linear, acute to emarginate, dark purple-brown, 
reddish at the base ; inner corona-lobes suberect, dark purple-brown 
with yellowish or paler tips to the inner horn ; dorsal wing free to 
the base, 3 lin. long, 1-14 lin. broad at the base, thence tapering to 
the acute apex, entire or with a tooth on the inner margin; inner 
horn parallel with the wing, 4-44 lin. long, triquetrous-subulate, 
acute and recurved-hooked at the apex, sometimes (abnormally) 
with a small tooth above the middle. Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 19, and 
Suppl. 9; Hornem. Hort. Bot. Hafn. i. 249; Kerner, Hort. Semp. 4 
550; Poir. Encycl. Suppl. v. 230; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 17; Link, 
Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 254; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 242 ; Spreng. Syst. 
i. 839, eacl. syn.; G: Don, Gen. Syst.iv. 115; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 886, 
excl. syn.; Decne in DO. Prodr. viii. 653; Loud. Encycl. Pl. 198, 
fig. 3281 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 481. 
Sourn Arrica ? cultivated specimen ! 
This is only known to me from cultivated plants, Stated by Haworth to 
have been introduced in 1805, but may have been raised from seed produced in 
Europe by insect agency, and therefore a hybrid.] 
4. 8. dejecta (Salm-Dyck, Hort. Dyck, 372); stems about 1 ft. 
high, erect, thick, tomentose ; angles with approximate erect teeth 
(rudimentary leaves); pedicels subsolitary near the base of the 
stems, longer than the corolla, tomentose ; corolla 3 in. in diam., 
tomentose on the back, villous with purple hairs at the centre of the 
inner face; lobes variably spreading, deflexed or divaricate, 
lanceolate, acuminate, oblique at the apex, ciliate with reddish hairs 
along the revolute margins, otherwise glabrous on the inner face, 
shining, pale yellowish, with elevated transverse rosy lines ; outer 
corona-lobes spreading, channelled, 3-toothed at the apex ; inner 
corona-lobes blackish-crimson, with a broad toothed dorsal wing 
and a triquetrous hooked inner horn. Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 659 ; 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 479. 
ORIGIN : stated to have been raised from South African seeds in the garden of 
Prince Salm-Dyck. 
.5. 8. senilis (N. E. Br.); stems 1 ft. high and much like 
those of S. conformis (Pillans); pedicels short, } in. long, 2 lin. 
thick, velvety; sepals 4 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, velvety ; 
corolla 43-5 in. in diam. with the lobes extended, velvety- 
puberulous on the back, transversely rugulose on the inner face, 
with the disk and lower 3 of the lobes light purple with very 
numerous narrow crowded transverse light yellowish or straw- — 
coloured lines not extending to the margins, and the apical third 
