952 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [| Stapelia. 
entire or occasionally toothed at the apex; inner horn slightly 
recurved-erect, triquetrous-subulate, very obtuse, viewed sideways. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1280, and Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 282; Pers. 
Syn. Pl. i. 278; Poir. Encyel. vii. 379, and in Dict. Sc. Nat. 1. 
390; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 86; R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 24 ; 
Haw. Syn. Pl. Suce. 18 ; Jacq. Stap. t. 47; Bot. Mag. t. 536 ; Lodd, 
Bot. Cab. t. 453; DC. Pl. Grass. t. 166; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 16 ; 
Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 254; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 839 ; 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 115; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 886 ; Decne in DC. 
Prodr. viii. 653 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 479. S. stellaris, 
Haw. Syn. Pl. Suce. 19, and Suppl. 9 ; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 
i. 254; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv.115; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 663 ; 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 483. S. stellata, St. Lag. in Ann. 
Soc. Bot. Lyon, vii. 135. 
Var. 8, lucida (N. E. Br.); corona entirely purplish-red or purple-brown 
without transverse markings on the lobes, sometimes dull greenish at the tips, 
very shining ; outer corona-lobes dark purple-brown to nearly black, with or 
without greenish-ochre margins at the apical half; inner corona-lobes entirely 
very dark purple-brown or with paler tips as in the type, the dorsal wing 
free to the base or partly to almost entirely adnate to the inner horn, 14-23 lin. 
long, linear, linear-oblong, deltoid or deltoid-oblong, acute, obtuse or toothed at 
the apex and sometimes on the inner margin; inner horn 24-3 lin. long, 
triquetrous-subulate, acute to very obtuse, viewed sideways, straight or slightly 
recurving ; follicles parallel or slightly diverging, 5-74 in. long, 5-6 lin. thick, 
terete tapering at the base and into a beak at the apex; seeds 3-34 lin. long, 
1$-14 lin. broad, narrowly ovate, concave with thick incurved margins on one 
side, convex on the other, smooth, glabrous, light brown; otherwise as in the 
type. S. lucida, DC. Cat. Pl. Hort. Monsp. 148; Poir. Encycl. Suppl. v. 229 ; 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 15; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 114; Decne in DC. Prodr. 
viii. 652; N. #. Br. in Hook. Ie, Pl. t. 1919; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 
1898, 481. 
Var. y, gibba(N. E. Br.); corolla with the lobes extended about 3 in, in diam., 
pale to dark vinous-purple, with the tips of the lobes, a border along their 
margins 1-1} lin. broad and 5 stripes radiating to the sinuses all ochreous or dull 
greenish colour, without transverse yellow lines on the lobes ; hairs on the disk 
‘shorter and more purple ”’ (Pillans) than in var. lucida ; lobes about 1 in. long, 
3 in. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, with recurved but scarcely revolute margins, 
somewhat convexly humped just below the apex on the inner face, concave 
beneath ; outer corona-lobes shortly bifid or 3-toothed at the apex, even in the 
same flower!; inner corona-lobes with the inner horn more or less recurved- 
spreading, acute or obtuse viewed sideways, sometimes slightly hooked at the 
apex ; otherwise as in the type. 
-Sourn Arrica: Karoo, Masson, cultivated specimens dated 1811, 1812, 1813 
and others much later, from plants probably introduced by Masson, in Herb. 
Haworth! and Herb, Kew! Var. B: cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Recion: Var. 8: Riversdale Div. ; Muis Kraal, Pillans, 619! 666 ! 
Seven Weeks Poort, Bain, 9! and cultivated specimens! George Div. ; Ezeljagts 
Poort, Barkly, 22! MacOwan, 2242! and cultivated specimens! Div. ? Caledon 
Kloof, Bain, 5! Var. y: Ladismith Div. ; aléng the road between Ladismith and 
, Pillans, 607! 643! : 
CentraL Reaion: Var. 8: Laingsburg Div. ; Witte Poort, Pillans, 607 ! 
"The type and var. B both described from living planta, The type. of 
8 stare Haw., in Haworth’s Herbarium at Oxford bb iaentioal be Meath: 
