976 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). | Stapelia. 
ciliate from near the base nearly to the tips of the lobes with long 
vibratile clavate purple hairs, smooth and light green on the back 
dotted and spotted with purple-brown; inner surface slightly 
rugulose, cream-colour, spotted all over and edged on the lobes with 
purple-brown, the spots around the corona not smaller than 
the rest ; lobes 3-34 lin. long and as much in breadth, broadly ovate 
or deltoid-ovate, acute ; outer corona-lobes erectly spreading, 14-1? 
lin. long, $-} lin. broad at the base, thence gradually tapering to 
the minutely notched or acute apex, concave down the face, dark 
purple-brown ; inner corona-lobes about 3 times as long as the 
anthers, 1} lin. long, subulate-filiform, acute, connivent-erect, 
usually more or less spreading at the tips, and with a short dorsal 
gibbosity at their base, marked with cream-colour and purple and 
tipped with white. 
Var. 8, deficiens (N. E. Br.); corolla greenish-primrose, with very numerous 
rather minute purple-brown dots, those around the corona rather smaller than the 
rest ; disk very broadly and shallowly funnel-shaped ; lobes ciliate from near the 
base to about the middle with subclavate purple hairs about ¥ lin. long ; outer 
corona-lobes 3-1 lin. long, entire, acute ; inner corona-lobes without a small 
dorsal gibbosity at their base, otherwise as in the type. 
CentraL Region : Var. 8: Victoria West Diy. ; Biesjes Poort, Pillans, 675 ! 
Katanart Reoion: Griqualand West; near Douglas, Pillans, 644! 
Mrs. Barber | 
49. S. parvipuncta (N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1923) ; stems 
erect, somewhat crowded, 2-5 in. long, }—2 in. square, obtusely 
4-angled, grooved down the sides, very shortly toothed on the angles, 
the teeth tipped with rudimentary subulate leaves } lin. long, 
glabrous, dull green ; flowers several together, successively developed 
on a stout gradually elongating peduncle near the base or middle 
of the young stems; pedicels }+2 in. long, glabrous, spreading or 
directed downwards ; sepals 1-2} lin, long, ovate or lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate, glabrous ; corolla in bud flat, pentagonal, with 
very short points at the angles; when expanded 1-1} in. in 
diam., lobed to half-way down, flat, without a distinct tube, quite 
glabrous on both sides, but ciliate along 2 of the length of the lobes 
with long vibratile clavate purple hairs, smooth and pale green 
thickly spotted with purple-brown on the back; inner surface 
slightly rugulose, varying from very pale sulphur-white to pale 
greenish-yellow, everywhere covered with minute dust-like dots of 
purple-brown or those on the lobes much larger than those on 
the disk, sometimes the lobes are narrowly margined with purple- 
brown ; lobes 34—5 lin. long and as much in breadth, broadly ovate 
or deltoid-ovate, acute, flat, recurving ; outer corona-lobes 1-1} lin. 
long, deeply bifid, with the rectangular basal part ascending-spreading 
and the subulate teeth recurving and diverging, dark purple-brown, 
shining ; inner corona-lobes simple, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute - 
_ or acuminate, horizontally incumbent on the backs of the anthers, 
