970 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Stapelia. 
of the inner corona-lobes forming deep nectar-cavities, subtruncate 
and somewhat toothed on the top margin on each side of the short 
acute apical spreading point, purple, yellowish at the base; inner 
corona-lobes 2-horned, white, tinged with purple ; outer horn free 
to the base, about 2 lin. long, laterally flattened, linear-subulate, 
suberect ; inner horn about 3 lin. long, dorsally flattened, linear- 
filiform, connivent at the base, then recurving over the tip of the 
outer horn. 
Crentrat Recion : Laingsburg Div. ; Tanqua Karoo, Marloth, 4227 ! 
Described from a living stem and a flower preserved in fluid, aided by 
Dr. Marloth’s description. 
40. 8. virescens (N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1910 B); stems 
erect, 24-33 in. high, 5-6 lin. thick, obtusely 4-angled, tuberculate- 
toothed, with the teeth tipped with subulate very spreading deciduous 
or withering leaves 2—5 lin. long, glabrous, greyish-green, mottled 
with dull purplish-brown, flowering below the middle; flowering 
axis or cyme ultimately elongating to }—} in. long, erect, stout, 
racemosely 6—9-flowered ; pedicels erect, 14-2 in. long, glabrous ; 
sepals 14-2 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, channelled down the 
inner face, glabrous, very sparsely ciliate with minute clavate hairs ; 
corolla 1-1} in. (much less in dried specimens) in diam., very deeply 
5-lobed, flat, without a distinct tube, smooth and whitish-green, 
tinted with purplish on the back, rugose with small densely crowded 
conical processes or stout papille and greenish-yellow on the inner 
face ; lobes about 5 lin. long and 34-4 lin. broad, ovate, acute, with 
reflexed margins, glabrous, not ciliate ; outer corona-lobes variable, 
14-14 lin. long, usually trifid with the middle lobe entire or variably 
3-5-toothed and much longer than the lateral subulate lobes or 
teeth, or sometimes somewhat lanceolate, acute, with a minute tooth 
on each side below the middle, channelled down the face, yellow ; 
inner corona-lobes 2-horned, yellow; outer horn 3-1 lin. long, 
compressed, narrowly deltoid or subulate, ascending-spreading, 
straight or slightly recurved; inner horns 1# lin. long, filiform, 
connivent at the base, then arching-recurved ; odour “ disgusting” 
(Barkly). 
CentraL Recron: Philipstown Div. ; near Philipstown, Mrs. Cawood Giddy 
Herb, Pillans, 642! Britstown Div. ; near Britstown, Waters! Marloth, 4375 ! 
Div. ? Karoo, on the road to the Diamond Fields, Dickson (Barkly, 35)! and 
without precise locality, Mrs. Barber ! 
Described from a living plant and flowers preserved in fluid. 
41. S. surrecta (N. E. Br.); stems (only 1 branch seen) 2}—3 in. 
(or more?) high, 5 lin. (or more?) square, with slightly concave sides 
and the teeth on the rounded angles tipped with erect acute rudi- _ 
mentary leaves 1 lin. long, velvety-puberulous, green; flowers 2-3 — 
together, successively developed, along the sides near the top of the 
stems; pedicels erect, }—3 in. long, rather slender, }—} lin. thick, 
