Stapelia.| ~ ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 981 
ovate, acute or shortly acuminate ; outer corona-lobes 1}-1} lin. 
long, 1-14 lin. broad, subrectangular, slightly narrowing at the 
3-toothed apex, purple-brown with a yellowish base ; inner corona- 
lobes 2-horned, purple-brown at the base, dull yellowish dusted 
with dull purple-brown on the upper part ; outer horns spreading, 
7-1} lin. long, laterally flattened, slenderly linear, obtuse; inner 
horns connivent-erect at the base, recurving above, 2-3 lin. long, 
filiform, clavate and very minutely tuberculate at the apex ; 
follicles subparallel, 5-6 in. long, about 5 lin. thick, fusiform, 
tapering into an acute slightly hooked beak, smooth, glabrous, 
glaucous? ; seeds about 34 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, flattish, ovate, 
with a thickened margin, smooth, brown. Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1277; 
Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 278 ; Poir. Encycl. vii. 378, and in Dict. Sc. Nat. 
1.389; BR. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 24; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 
85 ; Hornem. Hort. Hafn. i. 247 ; Jacq. Stap. t. 45 ; Schultes, Syst. 
Veg. vi. 34; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 256; Spreng. Syst. 
Veg. i. 840 (eacl. syn.) ; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 886; Decne in DC. 
Prodr. viii. 657. N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1904, xxxvi. 206; 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 483. S. glauca, J. Donn, Hort. 
Cantab. ed. 3, 42 ; Jacq. Stap. t. 44; Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 
279; Poir. Eneycl. Suppl. v. 231; Hornem. Hort. Hafn. i. 247; 
Kerner, Hort. Semp. t. 487 ; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 34; Link, Enum. 
Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 256 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 840 (eacl. syn.) ; Dietr. 
Syn. Pl. ii. 886; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 657. 8. protensa, 
Hornem. Hort. Hafn. Suppl. 30. Tromotriche revoluta, Haw., and T. 
glauca, Haw. Syn. Pl. Suce. 36, 37, and Suppl. 11; G. Don, Gen. 
Syst. iv. 119. 
Var. 8, tigridia (N. E. Br.) ; corolla with a pale nish-yellow central star 
and the dls nit it and tie very base of ak ieee aceon with yellow dots 
and short transverse lines, otherwise as in the type. 5S. tigridia, Decne in DC. 
Prodr. viii. 657. 8S. revoluta, Curtis, Bot. Mag. t. 724. 
Var. ¥, fuscata(N. E. Br.) ; corolla entirely reddish-brown on the inner face, 
without markings ; lobes 1 in. long ; outer corona-lobes ascending with spreading 
tips, oblong, twice as long as broad, 3-toothed at the apex, purple-brown ; horns 
of the inner corona-lobes filiform, more slender and longer than in the type, pale 
reddish-yellow dotted with purple-brown ; inner horn about 8 lin. long and twice 
as long as the outer horn ; otherwise as in the type. S. fuscata, Jacq. Stap. t. 46 ; 
Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 657 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 480. Zromotriche 
glauca, var. B, Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 37. 
Coast Rzaron : Clanwilliam Div. ; Karoo beyond North Olifants River, Masson, 
south-western slopes of the ridge a mile south-east of Clanwilliam, Pillans, 158! 
and cultivated specimens ! 
Described from living plants. Haworth’s type of T'romotriche fuscata, Haw. 
Suppl. Pl. Succ. 10, and G@. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 119, is a colour-variety of 
S. revoluta, as the inner corona-lobes have the stout horns of that form. 
[56. 8. mutabilis (Jacq. Stap. tt. 29, 30); stems 3-18 in. high, 
4—} in. square, acutely 4-angled, with slightly concave or flattish 
sides and rather stout conical spreading teeth about 3 lin. long, 
glabrous, green, sometimes tinged with purple, slightly glaucous ; 
~3 together, from near the base of the younger or higher 
