Stapelia.] ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). 977 
crossing one another but not erect, not gibbous behind, purple- 
brown. SS. parvipunctata, K. Schum. in Engl. und Prantl, Pflanzen- 
fam. iv. ii. 278 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 482. 
CENTRAL Recion: Laingsburg Div. ; Zout Kloof Farm, near Laingsburg, 
Pillans, 41! Matjesfontein, ex Pillans. Beaufort West or Frazerburg Div. ; 
Nieuwveld Mountains, Bain ! and cultivated specimens ! 
Described from a living plant, sent by Sir Henry Barkly in 1877. 
50. 8. fucosa (N. E. Br.) ; stems erect, 13-2 in. long, 34-44 lin. 
square, excluding the }—1} lin.-long conical acute spreading teeth, 
very obtusely 4-angled, with flattish sides, glabrous, dull green, 
mottled with darker green or purple-brown, probably flowering near 
the base ; pedicels 5-6 lin, long, glabrous ; sepals 1?-2 lin. long, 
ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, glabrous ; corolla about 1} in. 
in diam., quite glabrous and not ciliate, smooth on the back, densely 
rugulose on the inner face; disk nearly flat or very shallowly 
saucer-shaped, having a solid pentagonal annulus 4—43 lin. in diam. 
and about } lin. high around the corona ; lobes spreading, 44-5 lin. 
long and as much in breadth, like an equilateral triangle in form, 
acute ; pale greenish-yellow or sulphur-yellow, covered with numerous 
rounded blackish-purple spots about + lin. in diam., which are 
densely crowded and confluent on the annulus so that it is almost 
entirely blackish-purple and narrowly margined with the same 
colour on the lobes ; outer corona-lobes very spreading, about 2 lin. 
long and broad, subquadrate, bifid to half-way down, with parallel 
teeth, blackish, shining; inner corona-lobes about % lin. long, 
closely incumbent upon the backs of and not exceeding the anthers, 
ovate, acute or obtuse, not gibbous on the back at the shoulder, 
whitish or yellow on the disk, with the margins and base blackish. 
Eastern Region: Pondoland ; upper western slope of the mountain (Tonti 
Mountain ?) half a mile south-east of Mount Ayliff settlement, only a few plants 
seen, Pillans, 173 ! 
Described from living stems and flowers preserved in fluid. 
51. 8. miscella (N. E. Br.) ; stems often several inches long, 
creeping underground and producing at intervals erect branching 
stems 14-24 in. high, 2-4 lin. thick, obtusely 4-angled, with 
spreading acute teeth 4-3 lin. long, glabrous, dull green suffused 
with purple; flowers apparently solitary near the middle or 
base of the young branches 3 pedicels 2-2} lin. (lengthening in 
fruit to 6 lin.) long, glabrous ; sepals 1-1} lin. long, } lin. broad, 
ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous; corolla 4 in. in 
diam., rotate, without any tube, but with a raised cushion-like ring 
on the disk around the corona about 3} lin. high, quite glabrous and 
not ciliate, dark purple-brown, somewhat lighter at the centre ; 
lobes spreading, 24 lin. long and nearly 14 lin. broad, ovate-lanceo- 
late, acuminate or very acute, faintly rugulose on the inner face ; 
outer corona-lobes horizontally radiating, } lin. long, } lin. broad, 
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