954 ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). [ Stapelia. 
with stellately spreading (not recurved) lobes 11-1} in. long, about 
¢ in. broad, ovate-oblong, acute, with revolute margins, ciliate to 
their tips with long simple pale purple hairs, half of them directed 
inwards, glabrous on the back, transversely rugose and_reddish- 
purple without markings on the inner face, becoming paler and 
somewhat ochreous at the centre, glabrous on the terminal half of 
the lobes, with their basal half and the disk densely covered with 
long fine silky purple or greyish-purple hairs, which are more or less 
adpressed and directed towards the tips of the lobes ; outer corona- 
lobes spreading, recurved at the tips, 24-3 lin. long, linear, variably 
obtuse, apiculate, erose, minutely 3-toothed or more rarely 
acuminate at the apex, purplish-brown with a yellow base and 
sometimes yellow-brown margins; inner corona-lobes dark purple- 
brown, with the dorsal wing free to the base or adnate up to half its 
length to the inner horn, ascending, 24-3 lin. long, 3-3 lin. broad 
at the base, gradually tapering to the acute apex, or oblong-linear 
and acute or slightly toothed at the apex; inner horn 34-44 lin. 
long, triquetrous-subulate, acute, erect below, with the apex 
recurved (often rather suddenly) over the dorsal wings; follicles 
43 in. long, 7-8 lin. thick, fusiform, acute (Mrs. Barber). Schlechter 
in Journ. Bot. 1898, 480, excl. syn. 
Coast REcion : Bathurst Div.; near Port Alfred, Mrs. Hutton (cultivated 
specimens) in Herb, Albany Museum, 13! and Herb. Pillans, 653! Fort Beaufort 
Div. ; Blinkwater, Barkly, 52! and cultivated specimens ! 
21. 8. tsomoensis (N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1882, xviii. 168) ; 
stems 4-6 in. high, 5-8 lin. square, with compressed somewhat 
repand-dentate angles, opaque green, glabrous to the eye,and touch, 
but very minutely puberulous on the angles viewed through a 
lens ; rudimentary leaves erect, 1 lin. long, ovate, acute, minutely 
puberulous ; flowers 4-9 together near the base of the young 
stems, successively developed ; pedicels 3-1 in. long, velvety- 
puberulous; sepals 3 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, velvety- 
puberulous, usually ciliate with much longer hairs; corolla in bud 
_ globose, very obtusely pointed, when expanded and the lobes 
extended 23-3 in. in diam., minutely puberulous on the nerves of 
the glabrous light green back; inner face with a few slightly 
raised transverse ridges on the apical half of the lobes, entirely 
dull smoky-purple and darker at the tips of the lobes, or 
with some of the ridges greenish or dirty-yellowish ; disk flattish 
and with the base of the lobes covered with long soft simple 
somewhat adpressed dark purple hairs; lobes 1-1} in. long, 
7-8 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, strongly recurved, not 
revolute at the margins, ciliate with long simple purple hairs, 
partly directed inwards; outer corona-lobes about 24 lin. long, 
ascending-spreading with recurved tips, oblong-linear, obtuse and 
mucronate or acuminate, concave down the face, purplish-black or 
dark purple-brown; inner corona-lobes purplish-black or dark 
_ purple-brown, divided into a free ascending-spreading deltoid or 
