942 ASCLEPIADEA (Brown), [ Stapelia. 
stripe down the middle and some purple dots along the margins or 
purple with the apex or some mottlings there yellowish; inner 
corona-lobes connivent-erect with the tips slightly diverging, dark 
purple-brown, often paler (or perhaps yellowish) towards the tips, 
variable, sometimes with the dorsal wing adnate for ? or wholly 
to the inner horn, 13-2 lin. broad, truncate or oblique and 
denticulate or entire at the apex, sometimes free nearly or to 
the base or adnate for half its length, ?#-14 lin. broad at the 
base, deltoid or deltoid-attenuate to oblong, acute or obtuse or 
toothed, inner horn 3-5 lin. long, varying from slightly longer to 
twice as long as the dorsal wing, triquetrous-subulate, acute, 
straight or slightly recurving. N. EH. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. 
t. 1916. 
Var. 8, apicalis (N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1889, vi. 684) ; ‘‘stems very large”’ 
(Pillans) ; corolla-lobes with the apical 4 to } without hairs on their inner surface, 
sometimes marked with transverse yellow lines nearly to the tips ; otherwise as in 
the type. 
Var, vy, pallida (N. E. Br.); ‘‘ plant forming clumps sometimes yards across ” 
(Pillans) ; stems erect, shortly decumbent at the base, very stout, 9-10 in. long, 
13-14 in. square ; corolla 54-6 in. in diam., with the apex and margins of the 
lobes purple, the remainder of the lobes and whole of the disk pale greenish-yellow 
without markings of any kind; hairs pale greyish or whitish ; outer corona-lobes 
light purplish on the sides with the acuminate tips and a line down the middle 
yellowish ; inner corona-lobes dull purple or purple-brown at the base, yellowish 
above, with the deltoid acute dorsal wing nearly or quite free to the base; other- 
wise as in the type. 
SourH AFrica : without locality, cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Reaion : Alexandria Div. ; near Mimosa, Mrs. Hollands in Herb. Pillans, 
608! Bedford Div. ; Babians River, without indication of collector in Albany 
Museum, 2! Herb, Pillans, 188 ! Queenstown Div. ; Shiloh or Oxkraal Mountains, 
3500-4000 ft., Baur, 783 ! 
CENTRAL Reaion: Somerset Div. ; near Klein Fish River, MacOwan, 1923b! 
2249 ! Barkly, 72! Glen Avon, near Somerset East, Pillans, 58! 77! 78! 184! 148! 
169! 170! 177! 184! 187! 195! 626! Graaff Reinet Div. ; Ryneveldts Pass and 
stony hills near Graaff Reinet, 2500-3200 ft., Bolus, 31! Var. 8: Somerset Div. ; 
Great Fish Riv., Juby in Herb. MacOwan ! near Somerset East, Pillans, 174! 175! 
Aberdeen Div. ; near Aberdeen, Pillans, 40! Var.y: Willowmore Div. ; between 
Willowmore and Kipplaat, Pillans, 155 ! 
7. 8. flavirostris (N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1877, vii. 558, under 
S. grandiflora, var. lineata) ; stems erect, rather crowded, 4—7 in. 
high, }-1} in. square, with compressed angles and concave sides, 
distinctly toothed, with erect rudimentary leaves 1-2 lin. long, 
green, with a distinctly visible dense velvety pubescence ; flowers 
solitary or 3 together on a short stout peduncle, the two lateral 
(under cultivation) usually not developing, near the base of the 
young stems ; pedicels }-1} in. long, 2-2} (in fruit 5-6) lin. thick, 
_ velvety ; sepals 5-7. lin. long, lanceolate, acute, velvety ; corolla in 
bud ovoid, obtuse and slightly depressed at the apex, when 
expanded 53-6} in. in diam. with the lobes extended, velvety on ~ 
the back ; inner surface everywhere transversely rugose, with the 
_ apical 3 of the lobes glabrous and the basal part and disk covered 7 
