Stapelia. | ASCLEPIADE& (Brown), 943 
with erect soft simple purple hairs, dull purple-red on the disk, 
marked with transverse pale yellow and dull purple lines on the 
basal half and entirely very dark purple-brown on the apical half of 
the lobes, the dark colour extending towards the base in a broad 
triangle ; lobes 2-23 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, lanceolate ; acute, 
somewhat narrowed at the base, much recurved, ciliate to their 
tips with long simple hairs, half directed inwards and usually pale 
purple, the others white; outer corona-lobes ascending-spreading, 
recurved at the tips, 24-3 lin. long, linear, linear-lanceolate or 
linear-oblong, acute, concave down the face, dull reddish-brown or 
dull purple at the base, ochreous at the apex; inner corona-lobes 
ascending-spreading, pale yellow or ochreous-yellow shading into 
dark purple-brown at the base, with the dorsal wing adnate usually 
from ; to wholly (rarely for $ or less) to the inner horn, very 
rarely free nearly or to the base, 2-4 lin. long, usually 1}-2 (rarely 
1) lin. broad, entire, obtuse to truncate, rarely acute or toothed at 
the apex ; inner horn 3-5 lin. long, triquetrous-subulate, acute or 
3-toothed at the apex, varying from scarcely longer to twice as 
long as the wing, nearly straight or slightly recurved at the tips ; 
follicles parallel, 6-7 in. long, + in. thick, terete, tapering to the base 
and to the incurved-hooked apex, velvety-pubescent. N. E. Br. in 
Gard. Chron. 1908, xliv. 187-188, fig. 80. 8. grandiflora, var. lineata, 
NV. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1877, vii. 558, fig. 85, and in Hook. Ie. 
Pl. under t. 1916. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, cultivated specimens! Herb. Pillans, 331 34! 
Herb, Albany Museum, 11! 
Coast Recion : George or Oudtshoorn Div, ; between George and Oudtshoorn, 
Pillans, 664! Bedford Div. ; Babians River, Albany Museum, 14! Queenstown 
Div. ; near Queenstown, Frost in Herb. Pillans, 106 ! 
Central Reaion: Somerset Div.; near the Fish River, 2000 ft., MacOwan, 
1197! Barkly, 21! near Pearston, Pillans, 39! Beaufort West Div. ; Rhenoster 
Kop, Foster in Herb. Pillans, 138! Victoria West, Barkly, 21 bis! Richmond 
Div. ; near Richmond Road Station, Foster in Herb. Pillans, 96! Middelburg 
Div. ; near Middelburg, Chalwin in Herb. Pillans, 135! near Conway, Pillans, 
163! 635. Steynsburg Div.; near Steynsburg, Cumming in Herb. Pillans, 680! 
Albert Div. ; New Hantam, Drége, 6397 ! Colesberg Div, ; near Colesberg, Shaw ! 
Barkly, 21! and without precise locality, Pillans, 4! 
WesTERN Recion : Little Namaqualand, Templeman in Herb. Pillans, 11! 
Katanart Recion: Griqualand West ; near Griquatown, Thompson in Herb. 
Pillans, 123! Arnot, 7! and cultivated specimens! Basutoland ; Leribe, 
Buchanan ! ; 
Mr. Pillans states of his 664, ‘‘This is the most southern point from which I 
have had this species. The stems of this form are narrow and elongated, 
resembling those of S. lucida, so the growth is influenced by the heavy rainfall.” 
8. 8. ambigua (Masson, Stap. 13, t. 12); plant 8-9 in. high, 
branching at the base; stems }-1 in. square, softly pubescent ; 
angles compressed, with erect rudimentary leaves 14-2 lin. long at 
the teeth ; flowers successively developed in a 3-5-flowered cyme — 
near the base of the stems; pedicels }-1 in. long, velvety ; sepals 
4 lin. long, Fe lin. broad, narrowly lanceolate, acute, velvety ; 
corolla in bud 
ovoid, acute, when expanded 44-5 in. in diam. with 
