964 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Stapelia. 
Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 254; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 839; 
Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 885 ; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 656; Loud. Encyel. 
Pl. 200, fig. 3303 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 484. S. juvencula, 
Jacq. Stap. t. 28; Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 280; Poir. Encyel. 
Suppl. v. 231; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 15; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. 
Berol. i, 254; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 839; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 115 ; 
Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 885; Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 653.  Tridentea ? 
vetula, Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 35; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 11S 
juvencula, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 1, at: 
Var. B, Simsii (N. E. Br.) ; outer horn of the inner corona-lobes half as long as 
the inner horn, wing-like, irregularly deltoid-linear, slightly toothed on the inner 
margin ; otherwise as in the type. S. Simsii, Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 33; DC. 
Prodr. viii. 656 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 483. S. vetula, Sims, Bot. Mag. 
t. 1234. Tridentea? Simsii, Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 86; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 118. 
Coast Recion ; Worcester Div. ; mountains near Hex River, Masson ! Var. B: 
Haanton My 
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Described from Masson's type, preserved in fluid at the British Museum, and 
dried specimens. 
33. 8. olivacea (N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1875, iii. 136 and 137, 
fig. 24); plant rather compactly branched at the base ; stems erect, 
3-5 in. high, 3-1 in. square, very obtusely 4-angled, with the faces 
slightly grooved, not toothed on the angles, but with an impressed 
transverse line at the base of the erect 4-3 lin.long rudimentary 
leaves, minutely puberulous, very smooth-looking, greyish-green, 
with the grooves and impressed lines darker, usually blotched 
with purple where exposed to the sun; flowers 2-6 together at 
the base of the young stems; pedicels 2-3 (in fruit 6—8) lin. long, 
puberulous ; sepals 2-2} lin. long, lanceolate-subulate, puberulous ; 
corolla in bud ovoid, subobtuse, when expanded 14~1# in. in diam., 
with very spreading or slightly recurved lobes 5—7 lin. long, 4—5 lin. 
broad, ovate, acute, puberulous and dull green on the back, mner 
face deeply and closely rugose, glabrous, ciliate with white simple 
hairs, varying from pale olive to dark olive-green with the rugosities 
brown, or sometimes entirely dull brownish-red ; outer corona-lobes 
ascending-spreading, 1-1} lin. long, narrowly deltoid-subulate, acute, 
dark purple-brown, with a smooth polished central stripe from the 
base to the middle; inner corona-lobes 2-horned, dark purple-brown ; 
inner horn 2-24 lin. long, erect or very slightly recurving, slenderly 
filiform ; outer horn erectly recurved, }-1} lin. long, falcately 
subulate, laterally compressed ; follicles 35-4 in. long, about 4 in. 
thick, narrowly fusiform, acute, puberulous ; seeds not seen ; odour 
strong, fetid. Dyer in Bot. Mag. t. 6212; N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. 
Pl. under t. 1920; and Gard. Chron. 1908, xliv. 196, _fig- 86 ; 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 482. S. eruciformis, Hort. ea N. E. Br. 
in Gard, Chron. 1875, iii. 186. 
