Stapelia. | . ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). 957 
with revolute margins ; outer corona-lobes spreading, nearly 1 lin. 
long, } lin. broad, subquadrate, slightly broadest at the subtruncate 
minutely 3-toothed or apiculate apex, reddish or perhaps brownish- 
orange, with a yellow base ; inner corona-lobes about ? lin. long, 
incumbent upon the backs of the anthers (and in dried flowers 
shorter than them), with very short erect tips, ovate or narrowly 
oblong-ovate, obtuse, with a very short dorsal projection or gibbosity 
at the base, reddish or perhaps brownish-orange ; nearly odourless. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1280, and Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 280; Pers, Syn. 
Pl. i. 278; Poir. Encycel. vii. 380; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, li. 87; 
Jacq. Stap. t. 22; Bot. Mag. t. 1007; Lodd. Bot. Cab. x. t. 941 : 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 27; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 255 ; 
Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 841; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 887; Decne in DC. 
Prodr. viii. 655 ; Loud. Encycl. Pl. 200, fig. 3307 ; Schlechter in 
Journ, Bot. 1898, 480. S. pallida, Wendl. Coll. Pl. ii. 39, t. 51; 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 28 ; Decne in DO. Prodr. viii. 655 ; Schlechter 
in Journ. Bot. 1898, 482. S. pallens, Hort. ea Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 
2, ii. 631. Gonostemon divaricata, Haw. Syn. Pl. Suce. 27, and 
Suppl. Pl. Succ. 12; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 117. G. divaricatus and 
G. pallidus, Loud. Hort. Brit. 96. G. divaricatum and G. pallidum, 
Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 1, 278. G. pallida, G. Don, Gen: Syst. iv. 
117. 
Sours Arrica : without locality, Masson, cultivated specimen! Herb. Haworth 
25. §. stricta (Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2037); stems rather crowded, 
erect, 3-5 in. high, slender, 3-34 lin, square, with minute erect 
rudimentary leaves at the small teeth, probably glabrous ; flowers 2 
or more together at the base of the stems, developing successively ; 
pedicels “shorter than the flower”; corolla about 12 in. in diam., 
_ flat, star-like, glabrous on the inner surface, faintly mottled with 
dull purple on a slightly paler ground, with the centre of the disk 
rather paler and the margins of the lobes dull greenish ; lobes about _ 
7 lin. long and 4-41 lin. broad, ovate, acute, flattish, not revolute 
at the margins, not ciliate ; outer corona-lobes about 1 lin, long, and 
3 lin. broad, oblong, apparently spreading, recurved at the obtuse or 
emarginate tips, yellowish-brown, with the apex and a short median 
stripe purple-brown ; inner corona-lobes incumbent upon the backs of 
the anthers with very shortly upcurved tips, about ? lin. long, narrowly 
ovate, acute, slightly gibbous at the base on the back, purple-brown. 
Decne in DO. Prodr. viii. 655; Schlechter in Journ. Bot, 1898, 483. 
Gonostemon stricta, Haw. Suppl. Pl. Succ. 12; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 
117. G. strictum, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 1, 278. G. strictus, Loud. 
Hort. Brit. 96. 
Soutu Arrica : without locality, ex Sims. 
I haye seen no specimen of this species, and describe from Curtis’ original 
drawing at Kew. The colouring of the reproduction of this drawing in the 
Botanical Magazine is too bright, and the centre of the disk is not white in the 
original as represented in the reproduction, the mottling is very faint in the ae 
original and is omitted in some and rendered too evident in others of the eee 
