944 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Stapelia. 
the recurved lobes spread out, velvety on the back; inner surface. 
transversely rugose, brownish-purple, with darker transverse lines 
(rugosities) on the lobes, somewhat thinly covered with erect purple 
hairs on the disk or disk and basal half of the lobes, glabrous on 
their apical half, ciliate to their tips with long simple light purple: 
and white hairs, half of them directed inwards ; lobes 1}—2 in. long, 
9-10 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute; outer corona-lobes ascending- 
spreading, 4 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, acute and recurved at the 
apex, channelled down the face, dull red-brown, with ochreous apex. 
and margins; inner corona-lobes diverging, dark purple-brown, 
with the dorsal wing nearly free or adnate for }-} of its length to 
the inner horn, ascending, deltoid or deltoid-oblong, more or less 
toothed on its inner margin; inner horn triquetrous-subulate, more 
or less recurved-hooked at the apex. Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1279, and 
Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 282; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 278; Poir. Encyel. 
vii. 379; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 86; R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 
24; Jacq. Stap. t. 53; Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 17 ; Kerner, Hort. Semp. 
t. 372 ; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 13; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 
253; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 114; Deene in DC. Prodr, viii. 652 ; 
Loud, Eneycl. Pl. 198, fig. 3271 ; N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. under 
t. 1916 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 479. 
Var. B, fulva (Sweet, Hort. Brit, ed. 2, 357); disk and basal half of the lobes 
pale yellowish-green with transverse purple-brown lines, apical half of the lobes 
entirely purple-brown. S. ambigua, var., Jacq. Stap. t. 54, 
Sour Arrica : without locality, Masson, and cultivated specimens (some dated 
1812, 1813 and 1829 in Herb. Haworth and Kew are probably from plants 
introduced by Masson)! Var, 8 : cultivated specimens ! 
CENTRAL Recion : Victoria West Div. ; near Victoria West, Barkly, 66 ! 
Specimens collected at the base of a mountain west of Queenstown (Galpin, 
1935) may belong to this species. 8. ambigua is easily distinguished from 
S. grandiflora by its smaller flowers, narrower corolla-lobes, much more thinly 
scattered and rather stiffer hairs on the disk and the recurved-hooked apex of the 
inner horn of the inner corona-lobes., 
9. S. sororia (Masson, Stap. 23, t. 39); plant with a rather lax 
habit of growth, with stems 6-12 in. high, 6-10 lin. square, erect 
from a decumbent base, with compressed angles and erect rudimen- 
tary leaves 1-1} lin. long at the teeth, probably velvety-puberulous ; 
flowers 1-3 together near the base of the young stems ; pedicels 
14-24 in. long, pubescent; sepals lanceolate, acute, pubescent ; 
corolla about 44 in. in diam. with the recurved lobes extended, 
transversely rugose on the inner surface, purple-brown, marked 
from near the base to the tips of the lobes with transverse yellow 
lines, with soft purple hairs on the disk and base of the lobes and 
the remaining part of the inner surface glabrous, but ciliate to the 
tips of the lobes with long purplish simple hairs, half of them 
directed inwards ; lobes 13 to nearly 2 in. long, about 1 in. broad, 
lanceolate, acute, much recurved, flattish, but slightly contracted 
: and apparently with recurved margins at the base ; outer corona- 
lobes ascending-spreading, with recurved tips, linear, acute or 
