Stapelia.] ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 967 
var. patula, N. E. Br., and the fourth appears to me to be either a very shrunken 
flower of S. ambigua or some seedling variety of that species, the hairs on the 
disk, instead of being very fine and woolly as in the other 8 flowers, are of the 
same straight and rather stiff character as in S. ambigua, and the short pedicel 
and structure of the corona also agree with that species. 
36. S. fissirostris (Jacq. Stap. t. 23); stems not seen, according 
to Jacquin growing to 24 ft. high, but doubtless much elongated 
under conditions of cultivation and probably in nature about 
6-8 in. high, laxly branching, 5-6 lin. square, with slightly com- 
pressed toothed angles, softly pubescent, whitish-green, teeth with 
erect rudimentary leaves 1-1} lin. long ; flowers in fascicles of 5—6 
near the base of the young stems, opening successively ; pedicels 
about } in. long, velvety-pubescent, as are the 2 lin.-long lanceolate 
acuminate sepals ; corolla in bud with a rather long conical-acuminate 
point, when expanded about 2 in. in diam., glabrous on the back ; 
inner face rugose with transverse elevated ridges, yellowish-green 
with the ridges purplish-brown or fuscous; tube very short and 
broad ; lobes widely spreading, about ? in. long and } in. broad at 
the base, long-attenuate from an ovate base, ciliate with short simple 
hairs, very slightly revolute at the margins near the base ; outer 
corona-lobes spreading, less than 1 lin. long, oblong or ovate- 
oblong, subacute, dull orange ; inner corona-lobes about as long as 
the outer, suberect, bifid to 4 of the way down, with divergent acute 
points and a short dorsal gibbosity or projection at the base, 
described as blood-red, but figured as dark purple-brown. Haw. 
Suppl. Pl. Succ. 9; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 20 ; Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. 
i. 254; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 841 ; Kerner, Hort. t. 434 ; G. Don, Gen. 
Syst. iv. 115; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 887; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 
654 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 480. 
Sour Arrica : without locality, Schott (ex Jacquin). 
37. S. glanduliflora (Masson, Stap. 16, t. 19); stems erect, 
4- (rarely 5—6-) angled, 3-6} in. high, $—? in. thick, softly pubescent ; 
angles somewhat compressed ; teeth rather prominent, tipped with 
an erect or incurved rudimentary leaf }-1 lin. long; flowers 3-9 
together, near the base of the young stems, successively developed ; 
pedicels 14-3 in. long, ? lin, thick, pubescent, reddish ; sepals 14—3 
lin. long, lanceolate, acute, pubescent ; corolla in bud ovoid, shortly 
pointed, when expanded hig in. in diam., flattish, minutely 
pubescent on the back, very slightly rugulose on the inner face 
and densely covered on the basal 4—} of the lobes with long out- 
standing pa stiff white hairs, and fringed all round with 
similar hairs, pale sulphur-yellow, marked all over with numerous 
dots and fine interrupted transverse lines of. purplish-red ; lobes 
5-7 lin. long, 33-4 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 
very spreading, with the tips recurved ; outer corona-lobes 1 lin, 
long, } lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, yellowish or purplish-orange at 
_ the base, purplish-brown or orange-brown at the apex; inner 
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