984 ASCLEPIADEA (Brown). [ Stapelia. 
slightly diverging, longer than the middle tooth when the latter is 
present, light yellow, dotted on the apical half with purple brown 
and with a central stripe of that colour on the basal half; inner 
corona-lobes variable, unequally 2- or 4-horned, even in the same 
flower, yellowish, dusted with purple-brown ; outer horns ascending 
or spreading, compressed-filiform, not clavate; inner horns about 
1? lin. long and scarcely longer than the outer, connivent-erect, 
filiform, with slightly clavate recurving tips and with or without a 
small tooth or short horn on each side at their base. Schlechter in 
Journ. Bot. 1898, 483. S. sanguinea, Pasq. Cat. Ort. Bot. Nap. 1867, 
99, name only. 
Origin: a hybrid raised in Europe; cultivated specimens (including 
Pillans, 69)! 
Described from living plants. Todaro states that he received this plant from 
the Botanic Garden at Naples under the name of Stapelia sanguinea, so that it is 
probably the plant intended by that name in Pasquale’s Catalogue above quoted, 
but the specimens I have seen cultivated as S. sanguinea in England have all 
been forms of S. variegata.] 
[58. S. maculosoides (N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1901, xxx. 270) ; 
stems erect, about 3 in. high, and 4-5 lin. thick, obtusely 4-angled, 
with very slightly concave sides, glabrous; angles very shortly 
toothed, with rudimentary deltoid acute ciliate leaves }—3 lin. 
long at the teeth; pedicels 14-1} in. long, 14 lin. thick, glabrous 
to the eye, but with an exceedingly minute and very scattered 
pubescence ; sepals 2} lin. long, 1 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, glabrous; corolla about 23 in. in diam., glabrous 
outside, 5-lobed to 3 the way down, nearly flat; disk without 
an annulus around the shallow central depression, dark violet- 
purple, with concentric irregular paler lines and spots, thinly 
covered with short purple hairs; lobes 12-13 lin. long, 8-9 lin. 
broad, oblong-ovate, acute, slightly rugose, marked with dark violet- 
purple transverse lines and spots on a light yellowish ground on the 
central part and with dark violet-purple margins and tips, ciliate 
with dark purple simple hairs 14-2 lin. long, otherwise glabrous ; 
outer corona-lobes 24 lin. long, 3-3 lin. broad, linear, acute, 
channelled down the face, blackish-purple or blackish with a faint 
paler spot near the apex, glabrous; inner corona-lobes 2-horned, 
blackish, faintly speckled with paler colour at the apex of the inner 
horn, glabrous; outer horn 1-1} lin. long, somewhat spreading, 
laterally flattened, narrowly attenuate-deltoid, acute; inner horn 
about 3 lin. long, subulate, strongly recurved just above the base, 
neither thickened nor acute at the apex. 
ORIGIN UNKNOWN : cultivated specimen ! 
Described from a living specimen received from Mr. Justus Corderoy in 
_ Aug. 1901, The flower of this species much resembles that of S. maculosa, Jacq., 
_ but there is no trace of an annulus on the disk of the corolla and the corona and 
forage I believe it to be of hybrid origin raised from seed in 
