948 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). | Stapelia. 
flattish with a slight central depression ; outer corona-lobes ascend- 
ing-spreading, straight, not recurved at the tips, about 24 lin. long, 
linear, deeply concave-channelled down the face, more or less 
3-toothed at the apex, with the lateral teeth rounded, sometimes 
unequal and the middle tooth shortly subulate, blackish-purple, 
passing into dull orange at the base, minutely pubescent with 
blackish hairs on the middle tooth and down the middle of the 
back ; inner corona-lobes blackish-purple, with the dorsal wing 
sometimes entirely adnate to and much shorter than the triquetrous- 
subulate acute erectly spreading and but slightly recurved 
inner horn, sometimes adnate for }-} of its length and produced 
above into a broad oblong free wing, more or less denticulate at the 
oblique obtuse apex and not much shorter than the inner horn, 
glabrous. Fl. des Serres, xix. 137, t. 2012. 8. Asterias, Journ. Hort. 
ser. 3, xl. 53, fig. 10, not of Masson. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, cultivated specimen ! 
Described from a living plant sent by Mr. Tuck of Grahamstown to Kew in 
1866, without indication of locality. It has not been rediscovered and no spect- 
men was preserved, but there are excellent drawings of it at Kew. . 
14. 8. gigantea (N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1877, vii. 684, and 
693, fig. 112); stems erect, branching and shortly decumbent at the 
base, 4-8 in. long, 3-14 in. square, pubescent, light dull green ; 
angles much compressed, with erect rudimentary leaves 1-14 lin. 
long on the small teeth; flowers 1-2 together, near the base or 
towards the middle of the stems; pedicels about 2 in. long, 2} lin. 
(in fruit about 4 in.) thick, softly pubescent ; sepals 4-5 lin. long, 
lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent ; corolla very large, in bud penta- 
gonally ovoid, acuminate, when expanded 11-16 in. in diam., with 
the united part disk-like, shallowly depressed at the centre ; back 
pubescent ; inner surface‘ transversely rugulose and thinly covered 
all over with long fine erect pale purplish hairs and ciliate with 
similar but longer hairs, light ochreous-yellow, everywhere marked 
with transverse crimson lines ; lobes 4-6} in. long, 2-23 in. broad, 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, very spreading or recurved, slightly 
convex, scarcely revolute at the margins ; outer corona-lobes ascend- 
ing-spreading, slightly recurved at the apex, 2}~-3 lin. long, 1} lin. 
broad, oblong, slightly concave down the face, 3-toothed at the 
apex, with the middle tooth subulate, acute and longer than the 
obtuse side teeth, glabrous, dark purple-brown ; inner corona-lobes 
dark purple-brown, with the dorsal wing free to the base, ascending, 
2-3 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad, oblong or subdeltoid-oblong, obtuse or 
acute, entire; inner horn 2-3 lin. long, erect, subulate, rather 
obtuse, nearly straight ; follicles slightly diverging, 5-6} in. long, 
2 in. thick, subterete, tapering to an obtuse slightly hooked apex, 
pubescent. WN. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1888, iv. 728, fig. 101, and 
1908, xliv. 187 and 182, fig. 77 ; Bot. Mag. t. 7068; Journ. Hort. 
———-: 1890, xxi. 349 and 359, fig. 41; Gard. and Forest, viii. 515, with fig. 5 
