Stapelia. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 963 
Tc. Pl. under t, 1910, p. 2. 8. hircola, Poir. Encycl, Suppl. v. 234, S. moschata, 
J. Donn, Hort. Cantab. ed. 3, 43 (name only) ; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 32 (by 
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error 562); Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1051. Tridentea hircosa, Schultes, l.e. 850. 
T. moschata, Haw, Syn. Pl. Suce. 35, and Suppl. 10 ; Schultes, l.c. 850; G. Don, 
Gen. Syst. iv. 118, i 
Var. y, densa (N. E. Br.); corolla-bud with short upcurved points at the sinal 
angles ; inner face greenish-yellow densely speckled (except along the margins) 
with dark purple-brown ; outer and inner corona-lobes light ochreous-yellow, ° 
sparingly dotted with purple-brown and a line of it down the inner face of the 
bifid or entire and acute or obtuse middle tooth of the outer corona-lobes ; odour 
somewhat musk-like ; otherwise as in the type. S. hircosa, var. densa, N. E. Br: 
in Hook. Ic. Pl. under t. 1910, p. 3. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Mund and Maire | Barkly, 48! cultivated 
specimens! Var. B: Barkly, 79! and cultivated specimen! Var. 7: cultivated 
specimen ! 
Coast Reaion: Swellendam Div. ; near Swellendam, Pillans, 29! Var. B: 
Swellendam Div. ; near Swellendam, Pillans, 50! Ladismith Div. ; between Muis 
Kraal and Ladismith (with the type), ex Pillans. 
CenTRAL Recion: Laingsburg Div. ; Witte Poort, Pillans, 624! 1214! Prince 
Albert Div. ; passes of the Zwartberg Range, Bain, 10! Graaff Reinet Div. ; hills 
near Graaff Reinet, 3000 ft., Bolus, 817! Zwartruggens, near the Sundays River, 
MacOwan, 2243! Steynsburg Div. ; near Steynsburg, ex Pillans, Aliwal North 
Div. ; near Aliwal North, ex Pillans. Albert Div. ; Cooper, 671! 3318! Var. B: 
Laingsburg Diy.; Witte Poort, ex Pillans. Var. y: Div.: near the Orange 
River and between Murraysburg and Richmond, Barkly, 10! MacOwan, 2263! 
The variety densa is described from a living plant sent to me by Sir Henry Barkly. 
I have not seen the type or var. B alive. i 
32. S. vetula (Masson, Stap. 15, t. 16); stems erect, obtusely 
4-angled, 4-6 in. high, 6-7 lin. square, with a rather thin and 
exceedingly minute pubescence, green ; teeth tipped with incurved- 
erect rudimentary leaves }—1 lin. long; flowers 1-3 together near 
the base or the clusters scattered along the sides of the young stems, 
successively developed ; pedicels 6-10 lin. long, about 1 lin. thick 
glabrous ; sepals 2-3 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, glabrous ; corolla 
in bud conically pointed, when expanded 24-23 in. in diam., flattish 
or with recurved lobes, glabrous on the smooth back, and on the 
transversely rugose inner surface, not ciliate, purplish-tinted on the 
outside, uniformly blackish-purple without markings on the inner 
face ; lobes 11-1} in. long, 6-7 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate, with 3-5 longitudinal depressed veins on the inner face : 
outer corona-lobes 2}—3 lin. long, ? lin. broad, linear-oblong, acute or 
obtuse and apiculate, dull reddish, with ochreous margins ; inner 
corona-lobes 2-horned, blackish, with the inner horns connivent at 
the base, then recurved in an are, about 4 lin. long, subulate-filiform ; 
outer horn spreading, very small, }—1 lin. long, crest- or wing-like, 
shortly deltoid, acute or obtuse. Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1291, and Enum. 
Pl. Hort, Berol. 280; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 280; Poir. Encycl. vii. 387 ; 
Jacq. Stap. t. 27 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 93 ; R. Br. in Mem. Wern. 
<3.) Sopeds at ane Teutsch. Gart. Mag. 1818, 17, t. 2 A, ex Schultes ; 
—- Sehultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 32 (by error 562); Lodd. Bot. ams 428 ; 
