962 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). | Stapelia. 
acute leaves 2-4 lin. long; flowers 1-4 together, successively 
developed, near the base of the young stems; pedicels erect or 
spreading, 14-2 in. long, about 2 lin. thick, becoming 4—5 Jin. thick 
in fruit, glabrous ; sepals 24-3 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate, glabrous ; corolla in bud rhomboid-ovoid in side view, 
pentagonal, with 5 short acute spreading or decurved points at the 
angles, when expanded 24—34 in. in diam., flattish on the disk, with 
spreading or recurving lobes, glabrous on both sides, smooth and 
thickly covered with brownish-red spots (always?) on a pale green 
ground on the back, inner face densely and minutely rugose, intense 
violet- or blackish-purple, minutely and indistinctly mottled with a 
slightly lighter shade of the same colour and lighter along the 
margins, with or without a few yellow spots at the base of the lobes 
and on the disk; lobes 1-1} in. long, 9-10 lin. broad, ovate or 
oblong-ovate, acute, flat or slightly convex, beautifully ciliate from 
base to apex with vibratile slightly clavate white or pale purple 
hairs ; outer corona-lobes erectly spreading, 34-4 lin. long, deeply 
trifid, blackish-purple, with the tips of the teeth and margins of the 
middle tooth below the middle ochreous ; middle tooth lanceolate or 
linear-lanceolate, varying from entire and acute, obtuse or truncate 
to bifid at the apex, channelled down the face and the sides, pinched 
in at the base ; lateral teeth shorter, subulate or filiform ; inner 
corona-lobes 2-horned, blackish-purple, with the tips of the inner 
horn and a few dots at the base of both horns yellow; outer horn 
ascending, }—-1 lin. long, compressed, linear- or narrowly deltoid- 
subulate ; inner horns connivent-erect at the base, recurving above, 
2-23 lin. long, filiform, acute or obtuse; odour “horribly fetid” 
(MacOwan), “musky, very agreeable” (Pillans) ; follicles erect, 
subparallel, 4-5 in. long, }-2 in. thick, fusiform, beaked, glabrous, 
pale greenish, with numerous irregular blackish-green longitudinal 
linear markings ; seeds } in. long, } in. broad, elongate-ovate, flat, 
with a wing-like margin, smooth, light-brown. Willd. Sp. fi 3 
1280; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 278; Poir. Encyel. vii. 379 ; Jacq. Stap. t. 
24; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 87; Curtis, Bot. Mag. t. 1839 ; 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 31 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 838 ; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 
885; Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 656 ; Loud. Encycl. Pl. 200, fig. 3300 ; 
N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. under t. 1910, p.3; Schlechter in Journ. 
Bot. 1898, 480. S. stygia, Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 32 (by error 562) ; 
Decne in DOC. Prodr. viii. 657 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 483. 
Tridentea gemmiflora, Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 34; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 
118. T. stygia, Haw. lc. 35; G. Don, lec. 118. 
Var. B, hircosa (N. E. Br.); corolla-bud with spreading points at the sinal 
angles ; inner face with some yellowish dots and irregular markings on the dark 
purple-brown or blackish-purple ground colour or covered with large dark purple- 
brown spots on a greenish-yellow ground ; corona in size, form and colour as In 
the type; odour ‘“‘like that of a he-goat” (Barkly), “musky” (Pillans). 
_ S. hircosa, Jacq. Stap. t. 25; Willd. Enum, Pl. Hort. Berol, 281; Schultes, — 
Syst. Veg. vi. 82 (by error 562) ; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i, 254; Kerner, — 
——— Hort. t. 880; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 839; Dietr. Syn. ii, 885; Decne in DC. 
—— Prodr. viii. 656; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 481; N. E. Br. in Hook. 
