Stapelia. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 955 
linear or somewhat attenuate acute dorsal-wing 1-2 lin. long and 
a subulate-filiform inner horn 3-4 lin. long, connivent at the base, 
then recurving, often over and beyond the tips of the dorsal wings. 
N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1918. 
Eastern Reeron : Transkei ; near Tsomo, Mrs. Barber, 8! Bowker, 11! Barkly, 
32! 42! and cultivated specimens ! 
Described from living plants, 
[22. 8. multiflora (DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 149) ; stems 4-6 in. 
high, }—} in. square, with much-compressed angles and rudimentary 
_ erect leaves 2-1 lin. long at the teeth, velvety-pubescent ; flowers 
three to several together near the base of the stems, often 2 or 
more open at the same time ; pedicels 4-8 lin. long, stout, velvety- 
pubescent ; sepals about 3 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, velvety ; 
corolla globose-ovoid, acute in bud, when expanded nearly flat, 
with the lobes scarcely reflexed, about 3 in. in diam., velvety on 
the back; inner face slightly transversely rugose, dark brownish- 
purple, without markings, thickly covered with fine soft simple 
purple hairs on the disk and base of the lobes, which are about 
14 in. long and ? in. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, with the 
margins recurved at the apical half, glabrous, ciliate to the apex 
with long pale purple or white hairs, half of them directed inwards ; 
outer corona-lobes ascending-spreading with recurved tips, about 
3 lin. long, oblong-linear, minutely and subequally 3-toothed at the 
very obtuse apex, concave down the face, blackish-purple or dark 
purple-brown ; inner corona-lobes ascending-spreading, blackish- 
purple or dark purple-brown, about 3 lin. long, with the dorsal 
wing entirely adnate to the inner horn or produced at the apex 
into a short free deltoid obtuse lobe, 1} lin. broad ; inner horn 
stoutly triquetrous-subulate, acute, produced for about 1} of its 
length beyond the adnate part of the dorsal wing and recurved 
over it. Poir. Encycl. Suppl. v. 229; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 18; 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv.115 ; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 653 ; Schlechter 
in Journ. Bot. 1898, 482, not of Rist. S. comata, var. multiflora, 
Loud. Encycl. Pl. 198. 
Sourn Arrica ? without locality, cultivated specimen ! 
Described partly from a specimen (probably from the type) cultivated in 
Montpellier Garden in Nov. 1819, and partly from a photograph, natural size, 
from a plant cultivated at Antibes between 1870 and 1880. I am not satisfied 
that this is a native of South Africa, as no wild specimen is known to me, and am 
inclined to believe it to be a hybrid. ] 
23. 8. deflexa (Jacq. Stap. t. 20); plant laxly branching, with 
erect stems, decumbent at the base, 4-7 in. long, 5-7 lin. square, 
puberulous, green or tinged with purplish ; angles compressed, with 
erect rudimentary leaves 1-1} lin. long at the teeth; flowers 3-6 
together near the base of the stems, developing successively, as the 
flowering proceeds a peduncle is formed, lasting and producing 
