Stapelia. | _ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 965 
Described from living plants. In the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1875, iii. 206, it is 
stated by Mr. Croucher, and alluded to in Bot. Mag., that another plant with 
black flowers, ciliate with black hairs, was also in cultivation under the name of 
S. eruciformis. 1 afterwards obtained flowers of Mr. Croucher’s plant and found 
them to be identical with S. olivacea, and to have white cilia ! 
34, §. acuminata (Masson, Stap. 15, t. 17); stems erect, 3-6 in. 
high, }—} in. square, puberulous, purplish-brown tinted; angles 
compressed, toothed ; rudimentary leaves erect, } lin. long; flowers 
in fascicles of 2-5 at or above or occasionally below the middle of 
the stems, opening successively ; pedicels 2-4 lin. long, velvety- 
pubescent ; sepals 2-2} lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, velvety- 
pubescent ; corolla acuminate in bud, 11-13 in. in diam. when 
expanded, rotate, softly puberulous on the back, glabrous and 
transversely rugose all over the inner surface, ciliate to the tips of 
the lobes, with long white simple hairs, dark purple-brown with 
transverse yellowish lines on the rugosities; lobes 5-8 lin. long, 
3-34 lin. broad, ovate, acuminate into a short tail-like point ; outer 
corona-lobes 13-14 lin. long, $—} lin. broad, slightly ascending, 
linear-oblong, bifid or minutely 3-toothed at the apex, mottled with 
yellowish and purple-brown; inner corona-lobes 2-horned, pale 
reddish, spotted with purple-brown ; outer horn 3~1 lin. long, free 
to the base, spreading, laterally flattened, narrowly deltoid or deltoid- 
subulate, acute, more or less toothed on the upper margin ; inner 
horn 14—1? lin. long, linear-filiform, dorsally flattened, connivent at 
the base, then erectly spreading or recurving in a bold arc above 
the outer horn. Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1281; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 278; Poir. 
Encycl. vii. 380 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 87; Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 
23; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 21; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 839; G. Don, 
Gen. Syst. iv. 116; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 886 ; Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 
654 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 479. 
Var. 8, brevicuspis (N. E. Br.); stems rather smaller than in the type 
(Pillans) ; corolla 9-10 lin. in diam. ; lobes 3-4 lin. long, 23 lin. broad, ovate, 
acute, not tapering into a point as in the type, and perhaps with brighter yellow 
lines, but with no other distinction. 
WESTERN Recion: Little Namaqualand ; Masson, Templeman in Herb. Pillans, 
5! 20! Var. 8: Little Namaqualand ; Templeman in Herb. Pillans, 26! 
Masson described the stems as glabrous, but, although minute, the pubescence 
is easily discernible. Dietrich has erroneously described the outer corona-lobes 
as entire. 
35. S. rufa (Masson, Stap. 16, t. 20); stems erect, not decumbent 
at the base, 4—9 in. high, }—? in. square, with obtuse angles and 
nearly flat sides when mature, and the teeth with erect rudimentary 
leaves 3-1 lin. long, softly and minutely puberulous, at first green, 
becoming olive-green or tinted with dull purple with age; flowers 
3-5 together at the base or near the middle of the young stems, 
successively developed ;, pedicels 1}-4 lin. long, stout, velvety ; 
_ sepals 2-2} lin. long, tapering from the base to an acute apex, 
