Stapelia. | ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). 969 
linear, very obtuse or subtruncate with a minute central tooth 
or obscurely 3-toothed at the apex, very dark purple-brown or 
blackish ; inner corona-lobes very dark purple-brown, connivent 
below, recurving above, 1}-1} lin. long, linear-subulate, dorsally 
flattened (not triquetrous), with the dorsal wing at its base very 
small, about 4 lin. long, ascending-spreading, deltoid or deltoid- 
oblong, obtuse. Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1284, and Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 
Suppl. 14; Hayne, Term. Bot. ed. 1799, t. 16, Jig. 8; Pers. Syn. Pl. 
i. 279 ; Poir. Encycl. vii. 382 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 89; Haw. 
Syn. Pl. Succ. 21; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 20; Link, Enum. Pl. 
Hort. Berol. i. 254; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 839; G. Don, Gen. Syst. 
iv. 116; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 885; Decne in DO. Prodr. viii, 654; 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 479. 
Var. 8, paniculata (N. E. Br.) ; corolla entirely dull purple or purple-brown, 
without transverse yellow lines on the lobes ; otherwise as in the type. 8S. pani- 
eulata, Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 13; Jacq. Stap. t. 26; Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. vi. 34; Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 255; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 889; 
Dietr, Syn. Pl. ii. 885 ; Decne in DC. Prodr, viii. 657 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 
1898, 482. Tridentea paniculata, Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 850; Sweet, Hort. 
Brit. ed. i, 277 ; G. Don, Gen, Syst. iv. 118. 
Sourn Arrica: Karoo, Masson; cultivated specimens in Herb. Haworth (at 
Oxford)! Var. 8: cultivated specimen in Herb. Berlin! 
Haworth’s Herbarium contains 3 specimens, dated 1829, 1830 and 1832; on two 
of the corolla-lobes of the specimen dated 1830 the transverse markings, 
although faint, are very clearly visible under‘a lens, on the other flowers I cannot 
trace them. The specimen dated 1832 is labelled ‘‘S. paniculata, Jacq. Ie. A. D. 
Bevan ‘letter J, concinna.’” The other two specimens were also from Mr. Bevan, 
and all are probably from plants or possibly one plant long before introduced 
by Masson. Jacquin received S. paniculata from Prince Salm-Dyck, who may 
have obtained it from England. 8. concinna has long ago disappeared from 
cultivation and no other collector has refound it. 
39. 8. flavopurpurea (Marloth in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soe. 
xviii, 48, t. 5, fig. 1); stems lax, decumbent at the base, 
3-4 in. high, }-} in. square, with flattish sides, glabrous to 
the eye, but very minutely puberulous under a lens ; rudimentary 
leaves very minute, erect, about 4 lin. long, deltoid, acute; 
flowers 1-2 together at the lower part of the stems ; pedicels 3-1} 
in. long, } lin. thick, and together with the calyx minutely 
puberulous like the stems; sepals 14-2 lin. long, lanceolate, acute ; 
corolla about 14 in. in diam., very deeply lobed, the united part 
forming a very small funnel-shaped tube about 2 lin. deep and 3-3 
lin. broad, whitish, covered with short erect clavate purple hairs 
on the upper part and around its mouth ; lobes horizontally spread- 
ing, 3 in. long, about 24 lin. broad when flattened out, linear- 
lanceolate, acute, margins much recurved, with an exceedingly 
minute puberulence on the back, transversely rugose, with very 
prominent ridges and glabrous on the inner surface, not. ciliate, 
_ dull yellow; outer corona-lobes nearly erect, 14-1} lin. long, 
_ oblong, with the sides much incurved and pressed against the base 
