946 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). | Stapelia. 
lin. long, linear-oblong, acuminate or rounded into a short subulate 
point at the apex, concave down the face, dark purple-brown, dull 
yellowish at the base; inner corona-lobes ascending-spreading, 
about 5 lin. long, very dark purple-brown, with the broad dorsal 
wing usually adnate for 3? to the whole (more rarely for only half) 
of its length to and not much shorter than the slightly curved or 
straight (not hooked-tipped) triquetrous-subulate acute inner horn, 
irregularly toothed or entire at the top or free part. Willd. Sp. Pl. 
i. 1278, and Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 282; Kerner, Hort. Semp. t. 
69; Bot. Mag. t. 585; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 278; Poir. Encyel. vii. 378, 
and in Dict. Sc. Nat. 1. 390; Jacq. Stap. t. 59, and 64, fig. 3; Ait. 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 85; Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 16; DC. Pl. Grass. t. 
172 ; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 11; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 
253; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 839, eacl. syns.; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 
114; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 886, excl. syns.; Decne in DC. Prodr, viii. 
652 ; Loud. Encycl. Pl. 198, fig. 3269 ; Groenland in Rev. Hort, 1858, 
152 and 154, fig. 37; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 480, 
excl. syns.; Berger in Monatsschr. Kakt. xii. 126, with fig. 
S. spectabilis, Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 16; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 13; 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 114; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 652; 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 483, excl. syn. S. desmetiana, N. E. 
Br. 8S. obscura, N. E. Br. in. Gard. Chron. 1877, vii. 558, under 
S. grandiflora, var. lineata, N. E. Br. 
Sout Arrica : without locality; Mund! Miller! and cultivated specimens (one 
from a plant probably introduced by Masson)! Herb. Haworth ! 
Coast Recion: Uitenhage Div. ; near Sundays River, Masson, Barkly Bridge, 
Rogers in Herb. Pillans, 176! and without precise locality, Herb. Pillans, 684! 
Alexandria Div. ; Mimosa, Mrs. Holland in Herb. Pillans, 696 ! 
CentTRAL Recion: Somerset Div. ; by the Great Fish River near Espags Drift, 
MacOwan, 1197 ! between Cookhouse and Somerset East, Pillans, 639 ! Karoo at 
Bruintjes Hoogte, MacOwan, 1923! 
11. 8. fuscopurpurea (N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1913); stems 
probably 5-8 in. high, #-1 in. square, softly pubescent, with the 
angles apparently much compressed and erect rudimentary leaves 
3-1 lin. long at the teeth ; pedicels }-1 in. long, stout, pubescent ; 
sepals 3-4 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, pubescent ; corolla with the 
lobes spread out 34-4 in. in diam., puberulous on the back, 
transversely slightly rugose on the inner face, uniformly dark 
purple-brown, without markings, densely covered with long soft 
purple hairs on the disk, ciliate with stiffer long purplish or whitish 
hairs to the tips of the otherwise glabrous lobes, which are reflexed, 
14 in. long, 10 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, with revolute 
margins ; outer corona-lobes ascending, 3 lin. long, 3—} lin. broad, 
linear, obtuse, with a minute apiculus at the recurved apex, concave 
down the face, with the sides somewhat inrolled as if pinched 
together at the middle, dark purple-brown ; inner corona-lobes 4—5 
lin. long, erect, blackish or dark purple-brown, with the dorsal 
wing entirely adnate to and about } shorter than the inner horn, _ 
_ broad and wing-like, truncate and denticulate at the top; inner _ 
