974 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). | Stapelia. 
erect, slightly diverging, about 7 in. long, } in. thick, terete- 
fusiform, gradually tapering into a beak, glabrous, pale brownish- 
white, streaked with purple; seeds 5 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, ovate or 
elliptic-ovate, flat, with broad wing-like margins, pale brown. 
N. EH. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1908, xliv. 196, fig. 85. 
Eastern Reaion : Delagoa Bay, Mrs. Monteiro! and cultivated specimens ! 
Described from a living plant. The stem-teeth are much longer in this species 
than in any other known to me, and give the plant a very distinct appearance. 
The follicle and seeds described were produced upon a cultivated plant, and may 
not accord with those of the wild plant, as they may possibly have been fertilised 
with the pollen of some other species. 
46. 8. Woodii (N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1892, xi. 554) ; stems 
erect from a shortly decumbent base, 14—3 in. long, 3-5 lin. thick 
excluding the teeth, obtusely 4-angled, with ascending-spreading 
stout conical-subulate very acute teeth 1—} in. long, glabrous, green, 
striped and mottled with purple ; flowers 3 or more together near 
the base of the young stems, successively developed ; pedicels 1-1} 
in. long, glabrous ; sepals 2-2} lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
glabrous ; corolla 14-13 in. in diam., flattish, with a convex disk 
supporting the corona raised above the level of the horizontally 
spreading or slightly deflexed lobes, glabrous on both sides, very 
rugose with small transverse wrinkles on the inner surface, ciliate 
along the middle part only of the lobes with long vibratile clavate 
dark purple hairs, chocolate or dull purple-brown, with a few dull 
yellow dots on the lobes, which are 5-6 lin. long, 4-5 lin. broad, 
ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, convex, with recurving margins ; 
outer corona-lobes horizontally spreading, about $ lin. long and nearly 
as broad, rectangular or subquadrate, slightly notched or subdenticu- 
late at the apex, grooved down the face, dark purple-brown ; inner 
corona-lobes simple, with the basal part horizontally incumbent 
on the backs of the anthers, flattish, ovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, 
tapering into an erect subulate point about 4 lin. long, entire or 
with a minute tooth on each side at the base of the point, and 
slightly produced behind into a minute ascending entire or bifid 
tubercle, purple-brown. 
Eastern Reaion: Natal ; Noods Berg, Wood, 4119! 
Described from a living plant sent to Kew from Durban Botanic Garden ‘by 
J. Medley Wood, which flowered in September, 1891. 
47. 8. Cooperi (N. E. Br.) ; stems erect or ascending, 14-2 in. 
high, 4—5 lin. thick excluding the teeth; angles obtuse, with 
spreading conical very acute teeth 24-3 lin. long, having a minute 
tooth on each side at their middle, glabrous, green or greyish-green 
with chocolate-coloured or dark green spots and lines; flowers 
gradually developed 1-3 at a time up to 10 or more from a sessile 
_ eyme or cluster at the base of the stems ; pedicels 3-6 lin. long, 
glabrous ; sepals 2-2} lin, long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, _ 
