968 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [Stapelia, 
corona-lobes 1-14 lin. long, simple, subulate, without a dorsal 
gibbosity at the base, connivent-erect or crossing each other at the 
tips, dull yellowish, margined and dotted with red-brown ; odour 
rather faint or scarcely any. Smith, Exot. Bot. ii. 23, t. 71; Poir. 
Encyel. vii. 382; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 89 ; Jacq. Stap. t. 21; 
Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 22; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 21; Spreng. Syst. 
Veg. i. 840; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 116; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 
654; Loud. Encycl. Pl. 200, fig. 3287 ; N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. 
under t. 1921; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 480. S. glandulifera, 
Willd, Sp. Pl. i. 1284; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 279 ; Poir. Encyel. vii. 382 ; 
Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 21; R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 24 ; Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. vi. 21; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 116; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 
886. 8S. hispidula, Hornem. Hort. Hafn. i. 251; Schultes, Syst. Veg. 
vi. 21; Spreng. Syst. i. 840; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 116; Decne in 
DC. Prodr. viii. 663, 
VaR. 8, emarginata (N. E. Br.); outer corona-lobes oblong or rectangular, 
emarginate or shortly bifid at the apex, otherwise as in the type. 
Coast ReEaion : Clanwilliam Div. ; deserts near North Olifants River, Masson ; 
near Clanwilliam, Pocock in Herb. Pillans, 88! northern slopes of Olifants River 
Valley, Pillans! and cultivated specimens! Var. 8: Clanwilliam Div. ; near 
Clanwilliam, cultivated specimen ! 
Described from living plants. The flowers vary in the depth of tint of the 
ground colour, the distinctness and intensity of colour of the transverse markings, 
and the amount to which they are clothed with clavate hairs, which although 
white are somewhat translucent. Haworth has stated that the plant he had seen 
in cultivation and which he has carefully described as S. glandulifera, differs from 
Masson’s S. glanduliflora by ‘‘ its pubescent and otherwise different branches,” and 
‘‘ entire stamina (inner corona-lobes), his having bifid ones.” But he was misled 
by Masson’s rather poor figure on which there is no indication (nor mention in 
the description) of pubescence, and the somewhat two-lobed spot behind the 
inner corona-lobes I believe to be intended for shading, as in a drawing of my 
own the shading has a somewhat similar appearance. 
38. 8. concinna (Masson, Stap. 15, t. 18); stems erect, 3-6 in. 
high, rather slender, 3—4 lin. square, grooved down the sides, with 
obtuse angles (probably slightly compressed) and erect rudimentary 
leaves 4—} lin. long at the teeth, velvety-puberulous, dull green, 
tinted with dull purple ; flowers 2-3 together near the base of the 
young stems, successively developed; pedicels about } in. long, 
velvety puberulous, as are the 1} lin.-long lanceolate acute sepals ; 
corolla about 14 in. in diam., flattish, star-like, with very spreading 
lobes about 5-6 lin. long, 34-4 lin. broad, ovate, acute, rather 
minutely velvety-puberulous on the back; inner surface trans- 
versely rugulose, dull purple (or purple-brown ?), lobes with irregular 
transverse yellowish lines, tips yellowish with an indistinct reticula- 
tion of purplish, whole surface thickly covered with rather stiff 
erect simple white hairs, those at the margins longer than the 
others not forming spreading cilia; outer corona-lobes ascending- _ 
spreading, with recurved tips, 1} lin. long, } lin. broad, — 
