Stapelia. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 949 
Cact. Journ. i. 23, with fig.; N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1899, 55, 
and in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 501 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot, 1898, 
480. 8S. grandiflora, a plate without text in Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard. 
1902, facing p. 21. 
Eastern Reaion: Zululand ; Umvelosi River, Gerrard, 717! 778! and with- 
out precise locality, Plant (cultivated specimens) ! and cultivated specimens, Herb. 
MacOwan, 2818! Herb. Pillans, 93! 
MacOwan, 2818, is from a plant cultivated in the Cape Town Botanic Garden 
said to have come from Namaqualand, but I suspect it is from the same plant 
as the specimens distributed in MacOwan and Bolus Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 921, 
stated to have been introduced from Walfish Bay. I now think it probable 
that both localities are erroneous and that all the plants at present in cultivation 
are descendants of the plant originally discovered by Plant in Zululand and at his 
death brought with his other effects by his native servants to Durban Botanic 
Garden, Gerrard also found it in Zululand, and so far as I can learn no one else 
has yet found it growing wild in South Africa. 
15. 8. nobilis (N. E. Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 7771); stems erect, 
decumbent and branching at the base, 3-5 in. long, 5-10 lin. square, 
with concave sides, softly pubescent, green; angles slightly com- 
pressed, with erect rudimentary leaves 1 lin. long at the teeth; 
flowers 1—5 together, near the base or middle of the young branches, 
successively developed ; pedicels stout, 1 in. long, 2} lin. thick, 
velvety ; sepals 34-4 lin. long, 14-1 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, velvety ; corolla very large, in bud ovoid, acuminate, with 
5 projecting teeth below the middle, when expanded 5-lobed to 2 of 
the way down, the united part forming a distinct campanulate tube 
about 1} in. deep, 14 in. in diam.; lobes 23-4 in. long, 1}—-2 in. 
broad, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, reflexed, puberulous and light 
reddish-purple on the back ; inner face transversely rugulose, light 
ochreous yellow, everywhere marked with irregular transverse 
crimson lines and somewhat thinly covered with very fine long erect 
purple hairs, ciliate on the lobes with rather stouter simple purple 
hairs ; outer corona-lobes ascending, 3 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, linear, 
3-toothed at the apex, concave down the face, glabrous, purple- 
brown; inner corona-lobes dark purple-brown, with the dorsal 
wing free to the base, erect and parallel with the inner horn, 34-4} 
lin. long, #-14 lin. broad, narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 
acute or obtuse, entire or denticulate at the upper part ; inner horn 
3-5 lin. long, subulate, triquetrous, erect, with slightly incurved 
tips, not contiguous at the middle part. 
Soutn Arrica: without precise locality, Pillans, 6! and specimens cultivated 
at Kew! and Durban, Wood, 10773 ! 
Katanart Recon: Transvaal; rocky hill-sides of the Magaliesberg Range, 
E. 8. C. A, Herb, 868 ! and possibly a specimen from Nylstroom River, Nelson, 114 
belongs here. 
Eastern Reaion: Natal; probably from the Drakensberg Range, Pillans, 28 ! 
Cl ied . ff N. E. Br., but the growth is more 
the = se be tics Gee angles very poy ta Ce eed uae 
that species ; the flower is very similar in colour, but smaller, and its distinctly 
_ eampanulate tube at once distinguishes it, whilst the hairs which clothe the whole 
