Stapelia. | ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 975 
or recurving lobes and an annulus on the disk, glabrous, smooth 
and “olive colour with dashes or longitudinal streaks of purple ” 
(Pillans) on the back, rugose on the inner surface with minute 
crowded tubercles and short transverse ridges on the lobes and 
crowded minute tubercles on the annulus or lower part of it, ciliate 
on the basal half of the lobes with vibratile clavate purple hairs, 
otherwise glabrous, “light purple, with all the rugosities coloured 
yellow ” (Pillans), ‘‘ dull yellow, with fine purple-brown lines” and 
the annulus “ purplish-pink ” (Marloth) ; lobes 5-7 lin. long, 44-5 lin. 
broad, ovate, acute, somewhat convex from the slightly reeurving mavr- 
gins ; annulus 4—44 lin. in diam., pentagonal, solid, cushion-like, with 
sloping sides and a central depression containing the corona, outer 
corona resting upon the cup of the annulus, somewhat saucer-like 
and -subequally 10-toothed or with 5 short bifid or emarginate 
lobes } lin. long and ? lin. broad, with obtuse or subacute deltoid 
teeth having a broadly triangular notch between them, “rich 
purple” (Pillans), “deep maroon” (Marloth), inner corona-lobes 
1-1} lin. long, with their basal part ascendingly incumbent on the 
backs of the anthers and dorsally connected to the outer corona by 
a stout basal projection, broadly ovate, oblong or ovate-oblong, 
entire or with 1-2 teeth on each side, apical part filiform or 
subulate, connivent-erect or with recurving and sometimes slightly 
clavate tips, pale yellow, minutely speckled with purple ; follicles 
slightly diverging, about 34 in. long and } in. thick, fusiform, acute, 
glabrous, smooth, densely streaked with dark purple-brown on a 
pale ground colour ; seeds not seen. 
Coast Recon : Van Rhynsdorp Div. ; near Van Rhynsdorp, Marloth, 4584! 
Centra Recon : Cradock Div. ; near Cradock, Cooper, 3118 partly ! Middel- 
burg Div. ; among bushes on level ground 2 miles east of Conway Station, Pillans, 
181! Prieska Div. ; near Prieska, Frank (ex Pillans). 
Kaxanart Reaion; Griqualand West ; near Douglas, Pillans, 612 ! 
A specimen collected upon Umbumbula Mountain, near Queenstown, in 
Queenstown Div. (Galpin, 6942) probably belonys to this species, but the corona 
of the only flower seen is so much crushed that I cannot with certainty identify it. 
This remarkable plant does not quite agree with Stapelia or any other genus in 
structure, but I do not know where else to place it. The corona seems to be a 
combination of that of Caralluma and Piaranthus, whilst the corolla resembles 
somewhat that of Stapelia Woodii and its allies with an annulus added, but the 
difference is scarcely sufficient for generic distinction. 
48. §. jucunda (N. E. Br.); stems compactly erect, 2-3 in. 
high, 4-7 lin. square, obtusely 4-angled, with spreading stoutly 
subulate acute deciduous teeth 4-3 lin. long, leaving rather large 
and slightly prominent whitish tubercle-like scars, glabrous, green 
or greyish-green, spotted and mottled with purple, rather soft in 
substance ; flowers 1-3 together at the middle or upper part of the 
stems, successively’ developed ; pedicels }~1 in. long, glabrous ; 
‘Sepals 1-1? lin. long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 
glabrous ; corolla nearly flat, with the centre depressed, lobed to 
in. in diam., glabrous on both surfaces, 3 
