982 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [Stapelia. 
up on the older stems, successively developed ; pedicels }—1} in. 
long, glabrous ; sepals 23-4} lin, long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
glabrous ; corolla with the lobes very much recurved and then about 
1} in. in diam., glabrous on both surfaces, ciliate nearly or quite to 
the tips of the lobes with vibratile clavate purple hairs about 
# lin. long, with the disk raised into an erect solid pentagonal 
annulus 14-2 lin. high around and forming a short tube containing 
the corona, but flat on the back beneath it ; lobes 7—11 lin. long, 
7-10 lin. broad, broadly ovate, acute or shortly acuminate ; back 
smooth, pale green tinged with purplish on the nerves and tips of 
the lobes ; inner face slightly rugose to nearly smooth, with the 
apical third of the lobes light or dark purple-brown and the 
remainder pale yellowish or greenish-yellow, covered with trans- 
versely elongated spots or thick or narrow (and then crowded) 
irregular transverse purple-brown lines, becoming fainter on the 
annulus ; outer corona-lobes 14-1} lin. long, ?—1 lin. broad, rect- 
angular or subquadrate, very variable in toothing, bifid, with 
parallel teeth, or with a small tooth in the notch and the outer 
edges of the lateral teeth tapering to the apex, or equally 3-toothed, 
or with 3 minute teeth projecting from the middle of the truncately 
contracted apex, pale yellowish, speckled with purple-brown and 
often with a broad central stripe of the same colour ; inner cofona- 
lobes 2-horned, pale yellowish, thickly dotted with purple-brown ; 
outer horns suberect or ascending, 1-14 lin. long, filiform, slightly 
clavate at the apex; inner horns 2 lin. long, filiform, connivent- 
erect, recurving at the clavate tips; odour not very strong but 
disagreeable, sometimes odourless ; follicles subparallel, 7-8 in. long, 
about 5 lin. thick, terete-fusiform, tapering into a long hooked beak, 
smooth, glabrous. Haw. Rev. Pl. Succ. 204; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 
838 (excl. syn.) ; Kerner, Hort. Semp. t. 474 ; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 884 ; 
Decne in DOC. Prodr. viii. 661 (exel. syn: S. rufa, Masson) ; Todaro, 
Hort. Panorm. i. 47, t. 12, fig. 2; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 482. 
S. neglecta and S. Passerini, Todaro, S. fuscata, Hort. ex Todaro (not 
of Masson) and S. umbilicata, Thuret ex Todaro, l.c.i. 47. Tromotriche 
mutabilis and var. variabilis, Sweet, Hort Brit. ed. 2, 358. Orbea 
mutabilis, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 1, 276; G. Don in Loud. Hort. 
Brit. 96, and Gen. Syst. iv. 121. 
Var. 8, discolor (N. E. Br.) ; corolla dark purple-brown, with inconspicuous 
yellowish transverse lines on some of the rugosities on the disk and base of the 
lobes ; annulus yellowish with irregular purple lines; outer corona-lobes dark 
purple-brown, fuscous along the margins, with a median yellowish stripe. 
Samra Todaro, Hort. Panorm. i. 49, t. 12, fig. 3; Schlechter in Journ, Bot. 
a . 
Var. yy, furva (N. E. Br.) ; corolla marked as in the type, but the markings 
and apical half of the lobes of an exceedingly dark purple-brown, and the 
transverse yellowish lines very narrow ; lobes about 9 lin. long and 8 lin. broad ; 
annulus crenulately 5-lobulate ; otherwise as in the type. 
Var. 8, Nemesis (Dammann ex Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 39); ahybridform 
_ with a large pentagonal annulus 1 in. in diam. and apparently with a recurving 
