e 1833, this is I now 
966 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [Stapelia. 
velvety ; corolla in bud ovate, acuminate, when expanded 14-2 
in. in diam., velvety puberulous on the back, inner surface closely 
transversely rugose all over, with the shallowly and broadly funnel- 
like depressed disk and base of the lobes glabrous, their terminal 
part being pubescent or puberulous and minutely ciliate with 
purple hairs all along or sometimes with hairs }—1 lin. long, at the 
basal part, entirely dull dark red or chocolate-red, or with slender 
dull olive-green lines between the transverse ridges on the disk and 
basal half of the lobes, which are 7-8 lin. long, 33-4 lin. broad, 
attenuate-acuminate from about the middle to the rather slender 
tips from an ovate base, very spreading or recurving, with recurved 
margins ; outer corona-lobes spreading, }—j lin. long, 4—} lin. broad, 
subquadrate or transversely subrectangular, subtruncate, obscurely 
crenulate or with a very short obtuse-angled point at the apex, 
channelled down the face, very dark orange or reddish-orange (in 
dried flowers apparently yellow-ochre), microscopically ciliate 
(always?) ; inner corona-lobes erect, 2 lin. long, narrowly oblong or 
subcuneate-oblong, viewed from the back, subtruncate or obtuse to 
‘shortly bifid at the apex, with a short compressed projection or 
gibbosity at the base on the back, minutely puberulous, nearly 
black, shining ; anthers yellow. Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1281; Pers. Syn. 
Pl. i. 278; Poir. Encyel. vii. 380; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii, 87; 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 18, excl. reference to Haworth ; Lodd. Bot. 
Cab. t. 239; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 115; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 
653; Loud. Encycl. Pl. 198, fig. 3283 ; N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl, t. 
1922 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 483, S. rufescens, Salm-Dyck, 
Hort. Dyck. 373; Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 654 ; Schlechter in 
Journ, Bot, 1898, 483. 
Var. f, attenuata (N. E. Br.); corolla-lobes 9-10 lin. long; 3 lin. broad at the 
deltoid or deltoid-ovate base, at about 4 of the way up rapidly tapering into the 
narrow linear-attenuate tail-like tips, rather minutely ciliate ; outer corona-lobes 
subrectangular, obtuse or with a broad obtuse-angled point, not ciliate ; inner 
corona-lobes suberect, 1 lin. long, linear, very obtuse or slightly bifid, quite 
glabrous, blackish or very dark purple-brown ; otherwise as in the type. 
_ fissirostris, N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic, Pl. under t. 1922, not of Jacquin. 
Coast Reaton: Riversdale Div.; beyond Platte Kloof, Masson. Var. B: 
Ladismith Div.; along the main road hetween Muis Kraal and Ladismith, 
ae ; 685! Touws Berg (not Tomos Berg as originally printed by error) 
Cenrrat Recon: Laingsburg Div. ; near Matjesfontein, ex Pillans. Prince 
Albert Div. ; Karoo near Groot Fontein, Barkly, 65! Pillans, 17! Var. B: 
Laingsburg Div. ; along the main road between Prins Poort and Laingsburg, 
Pillans, 685! Witte Poort, ex Pillans. 
The type described from a living plant. 
S. rufa, Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ, 20, not of Masson. The type sheet of this in 
Haworth’s Herbarium contains 4 flowers; against one of them Haworth has 
written “*S, rufa’ Donn” in ink and under that name in pencil the name 
‘‘hirsuta ;” under another flower is written ‘“ ‘rufa’ Mr, Venes, 1812,’” and 
under all, the aa RO en dried cirea 1812, 1814 sine nom. Mem. — 
n ink not S. rufa, Masson, nor do I find it elsewhere — 
described, H.” Three of the flowers appear to acer dae a form of S. hirsuta, 
