960 3 ASCLEPIADEH (Brown). [ Stapelia. 
a dull yellowish or greenish spot at apex; disk broadly and 
shallowly cup-like with a small star-like cavity at the centre ; 
lobes very spreading and more or less recurved, 1-1} in. long, 
8-9 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute or somewhat acuminate ; 
outer corona-lobes ascending-spreading, scarcely recurved at 
apex, 24-3} lin. long, 3-3 lin. broad, linear, acuminate, acute 
or obtuse, with or without a minute apiculus deeply channelled 
down the face, brownish-ochreous or purple-brown with paler 
margins ; inner corona-lobes dark olive-brown or purple-brown, with 
the dorsal wing free to the base, ascending-spreading, 1—2 lin. long, 
3-1 lin. broad at the base, deltoid to oblong-linear, acute or obtuse, 
entire or toothed on the inner margin; inner horns connivent at 
the base, then recurving, sometimes with the tips incurved, 14-3 
lin. long, triquetrous-subulate, acute. 
Var. B, abrasa (N. E. Br.) ; corolla-lobes without cilia and apparently more 
intensely coloured than in the type, marked for 3 of their length with yellowish 
lines and with a margin 1 lin. or more in breadth of dark purple-brown on their 
lower part, otherwise the same as the type. 
Coast Recion: Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, Cooper, 1534! Herb. 
Albany Museum, 3! Herb. Pillans, 3! Curries Kloof, near Grahamstown, 
MacOwan ! and cultivated specimen! Var. 8: Bedford Div. ; Patrys Hoogte, near 
the Great Fish River, MacOwan, 2247 ! 
CENTRAL REGION : Somerset Div. ; near Cookhouse Station, Pillans, 637 ! 
Described from a living plant which flowered at Kew in Sept. 1898, and many 
dried flowers. Pillans, 637, is a form ciliate with very few long hairs and inter- 
mediate between the type and var. abrasa. 
29. S. Macowani (N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1920); stems 
erect, 6-12 in. high, 1 in. square, with very compressed angles, not 
very prominently toothed and the rudimentary leaves adpressed- 
erect, 1-1} lin. long, velvety-puberulous ; flowers 3-4 or more 
together, near the base of the young stems, successively developed ; 
pedicels 2-5 lin. (in fruit up to 1} in.) long; sepals 2-3 lin. long, 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, and with the pedicels densely velvety- 
pubescent ; corolla 2-24. in. in diam., with the disk depressed into a 
very broad shallow somewhat funnel-shaped tube, having 5 slight 
grooves radiating from the centre to the sinuses between the flattish 
ovate acute very spreading or slightly recurved lobes, shortly 
pubescent on the back, but not so densely as the sepals, glabrous on 
the transversely rugulose inner surface, not ciliate or only by the 
short marginal pubescence of the back, pale “ greenish-white 
(MacOwan), or pale yellowish, marked to the tips of the lobes with 
slender crowded transverse wine-purple or purple-brown lines, and 
suffused with purplish in the cup of the disk ; lobes 9-11 lin. long, 
7-8 lin. broad; outer corona-lobes ascending-spreading, slightly 
recurved at the tips, with the apex itself upcurved, 3 lin. long, 
1-1} lin. broad, slightly obovate-oblong, obtuse with a small 
-_ apiculus or slightly 3-toothed, channelled down the face, purple- 
brown, with paler margins and yellowish at the base ; inner corona 
