Stapelia. | ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). : 947 
horn triquetrous, acute, recurved, hook-like. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 
1898, 480. 
SourH Arrica : without precise locality, Barkly, 55! 
Of this species I have only seen a single flower and a drawing sent to Kew by 
Sir Henry Barkly in 1875. The plant had been cultivated at the Cape Town 
Botanic Garden for a long time, but no note of its origin had been retained. 
12. 8. Arnoti (N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1915); stems erect, 
3-8 in. high, 3-1 in. square, pubescent, green ; angles much com- 
pressed, with erect rudimentary leaves at the teeth ; flowers 2-3 or 
more together from near the base of the young stems, opening 
successively or in pairs ; pedicels about 1 in. long, stout, pubescent ; 
sepals about } in. long, lanceolate, acute, pubescent ; corolla in bud 
very broadly ovate, obtuse, with a very short broadly obconical 
base, when expanded about 4 in. in diam., with a flattish disk and 
much recurved or revolute lanceolate acute lobes 13-1} in. long, 
and 9-10 lin. broad; disk and basal half of the lobes smooth, 
covered with pale purple (pink, Barkly) hairs, apical half of the 
lobes slightly rugose, glabrous, but ciliate like the basal part with 
long simple white hairs, half of them directed inwards, bright 
vinous-purple, without markings, with the tips of the lobes blackish : 
outer corona-lobes about } in. long, 4—3° lin. broad, linear, acute or 
indistinetly 3-toothed, channelled down the face, recurving at the 
tips ; inner corona-lobes erectly spreading, about 34 lin. long, with 
the dorsal wing adnate for more than half its length to the inner 
horn, its free part broadly deltoid, acute or obtuse ; inner horn very 
stout, straight, triquetrous, acute. 
Katanart Recion: Griqualand West, without precise locality, Arnot (Barkly, 
70)! 
According to Sir Henry Barkly the corona is ‘‘of a dark brown colour with 
yellow stripes in the centre,” from which I suppose the outer corona-lobes to be 
yellow down their middle or at the basal part. I have not seen it alive. 
13. 8. Plantii (Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5692); stems rather 
compact, 6-8 in. high, #—{ in. square when fully developed, with the 
angles much compressed, shortly toothed, pubescent, green ; rudi- 
mentary leaves about 1 lin. long, erect ; flowers 1-3 together at the 
base of the stems, developing successively ; pedicels 1-1} in. long, 
2 lin. thick, pubescent ; sepals about 5 lin. long, lanceolate- 
attenuate, pubescent; corolla 4$-5 in. in diam. with the lobes 
extended, minutely pubescent on the back; inner surface trans- 
versely rugose, thinly covered with short erect purple hairs on the 
disk, glabrous on the lobes, which are about 1} in. long and 1 in. 
broad, lanceolate, acuminate, abruptly recurved at about } above 
their base, thickly ciliate to their tips with long purple hairs, half 
of them directed inwards, dark purple-brown, more intense at the 
a _ tips, with transverse irregular and often forked pale lemon-yellow 
lines (summits of the ridges) on the basal % of the lobes; disk 
ee : 3 oe 
