Stapelia. | ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). 971 
puberulous ; sepals 14-1} lin. long, lanceolate, acute ; corolla about 
1 in. in diam. with the lobes spread out, minutely puberulous on the 
outside, glabrous and slightly rugulose on the inner surface, not 
ciliate ; tube distinct, about 24 lin. long, cup-shaped ; lobes probably 
spreading, 44 lin. long in the only flower seen, 2 lin. broad at the 
base, thence tapering to a very acute point, rather prominently 
3-nerved on the back ; outer corona-lobes horizontally spreading, 
+ lin. long and broad, subquadrate, minutely 3-crenate at the 
truncate apex, concave down the face ; inner corona-lobes 2-horned ; 
outer horn ascending-spreading, 1 lin. long, wing-like, about 2 lin. 
broad at the base, thence tapering to the obtuse apex, entire ; inner 
horn 1} lin. long, subterete-subulate, ascending-recurved. 
Central Recion : Laingsburg Div. ; Tanqua Karoo, Marloth, 3791! 
42. 8. erectiflora (N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1889, vi. 650) ; 
stems erect, decumbent at the base, 4~7 in. high, 4—5 lin. square, 
with concave-channelled sides and small teeth with erect rudimentary 
leaves about 4 lin. long, puberulous, dull green, flowering all along 
their sides from base to apex, often with several cymes or fascicles 
of flowers on the same stem ; cymes with a short peduncle 1-3 lin. 
long, 1-4- (rarely more) flowered; pedicels erect, 2-5 in. long, 
about 1 lin. thick at the base, slightly tapering upwards, puberulous, 
purplish ; sepals 1} lin. long, lanceolate, acute, puberulous ; corolla 
in bud, at first globose, ultimately broader than long, rather 
depressed, with a short blunt point, when expanded disk-like or 
somewhat resembling a Turk’s cap, the lobes rolled back so closely 
as to entirely conceal the back of the flower and in this condition 
44-5 lin. in diam., purplish-grey, from short dense adpressed 
pubescence of white hairs, on a smooth purple-brown ground ; lobes 
about 24 lin. long, ovate, acute, without cilia other than the hairs 
on the inner surface; outer corona-lobes very spreading, with 
upeurved tips, 1? lin. long, } lin. broad, linear, subobtuse, with 
2 faint grooves down the face, brownish-red ; inner corona-lobes 
2 lin. long, subulate-filiform, quite simple, without a dorsal crest 
or horn, recurved-spreading, honey-yellow. N. EH. Br. in Hook. 
Ic. Pl. t. 1921 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 480. 
Coast Reeion: Clanwilliam Div.; Karoo, 6 miles beyond the Cederberg 
Mountains, Bain (Barkly, 80)! Clanwilliam, 500 ft., Schlechter, 8403! and 
cultivated specimens ! 
This is the most profuse-flowering species of the genus known to me, each 
flower remains open for from 8 to 14 days and is nearly or quite odourless, 
43. S. pedunculata (Masson, Stap. 17, t. 21); stems erect or 
decumbent at the base, 2-5 in. (up to 8 in., Barkly) long, 4-8 lin. 
thick, somewhat obscurely 4-angled and very slightly or indistinctly 
toothed, smooth, glabrous, greyish-green, mottled or tinted with 
_ faint purplish-brown where exposed to the sun, slightly glaucous 
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