956 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). | Stapelia. 
flowers for 2 or 3 years in succession, sometimes growing to 1 in. 
or more in length; pedicels #-1} in. long, 14-1? lin. thick, 
puberulous; sepals 24-3 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, puberulous ; 
corolla 2-34 in. in diam. with the lobes extended, puberulous and 
pale green, often tinged with purplish on the back, slightly rugose 
on the inner face, pilose with short erect purple hairs on the disk, 
glabrous on the lobes, which are ciliate with long whitish or pale 
purplish simple hairs, either entirely of a light to dark livid purple- 
red or marked with a few transverse pale greenish-white or 
yellowish lines, tinged at the tips of the lobes and sometimes on 
the disk with greenish ; lobes very strongly reflexed, 1-1} in. long, 
$-? in. broad, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, with 
revolute margins, 5—9-nerved ; outer corona-lobes 13-2} lin. long, 
oblong-lanceolate or‘ linear-oblong, acute or acuminate, concayve- 
channelled down the face, with the apex recurved, dull purple- 
brown, ochreous at the base; inner corona-lobes 14-2 lin. long, 
subulate, recurving, with a short dorsal wing-like deltoid crest 
3-1 lin. long at the base, dull purple-brown ; odour slight, but 
fetid. Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 14; Hornem. Hort. Bot. 
Hafn. i. 249; Bot. Mag. t. 1890; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 135 ; Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. vi. 46; Spreng. Syst. i. 840 ; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 
i. 254; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 886; Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 654 ; 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 479. S. deflexa, var. Brownit, 
Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. sér. 2, i. 879. 8S. refleca, Haw. Syn. Pl. 
Succ. 18 ; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 15; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 114; 
Deene in DC. Prodr, viii. 652 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 483. 
S. brevirostris, Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 14; Link, Enum. 
Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 254; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 117. Duvaliat 
deflexa, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 121. 
SourH Arrica : without locality ; cultivated specimens | Herb. Haworth ! 
Described from living plants, May be a native of Little Namaqualand, as I 
have seen a living specimen cultivated at Zurich (var. Brownii, Schinz), which was 
said to have been received from German South-West Africa. I have seen an 
authentic specimen of S, brevirostris, Willd., in the Berlin Herbarium, it is 
identical with S. deflera, Jacq. 
24. §. divaricata (Masson, Stap. 17, t. 22); plant very laxly 
branching at the base, with erect, straggling, spreading or diverging 
stems 3-4 in, long, 34-5 lin. square, glabrous; angles somewhat 
compressed, with minute erect rudimentary leaves on the small 
teeth ; flowers 1-6 together, towards the base of the young stems ; 
pedicels }—3 in. long, very minutely or papillate-puberulous ; sepals 
14-2 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous ; corolla 1-2 in. in 
diam., according to the figures, smaller when dried, flattish, with 
recurved-spreading lobes, glabrous on the back and on the smooth 
shining inner surface, ciliate with simple white hairs except at the 
tips of the lobes, pale greenish on the back, varying from pale 
flesh-colour to dull purple with greenish tips on the inner face; _ 
lobes 6-10 lin. long, 4-4} lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, — 
