Stapelia.] ASCLEPIADE (Brown), 985 
[59. S. maculosa (J. Donn, Hort. Cantab. ed. 3, 43); stems 
erect, 3-4 in. high, 5-7 lin. thick excluding the teeth, 
obtusely 4-angled, with spreading conical acute teeth 1-2 lin. 
long, glabrous, green ; flowers solitary or 2-3 together near the 
base or towards the middle of the young stems, successively 
developed ; pedicels 14-1} in. long, glabrous ; sepals about } in. 
long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous ; corolla 3-4 in. in 
diam. with the lobes extended, having an annulus on the disk ; 
glabrous and smooth on the back, with the nerves and some large more 
or less confluent blotches purple-red or suffused with that colour, 
slightly rugese on the inner face, with short or minute scattered 
pubescence on and around the annulus, otherwise glabrous, but 
ciliate to the tips of the lobes with simple purple hairs 14 lin. long, 
pale greenish-yellow, tinted with purple-red on the annulus and 
disk, thickly covered with transverse spots or short (longer on and 
around the annulus) thick irregular lines of purple-brown, very 
narrowly margined with and the tips of the lobes almost entirely 
dark purple-brown ; disk flat, with a solid pentagonal annulus 8-10 
lin. in diam., about 1 lin. high, convex and slightly crenate-undulate 
at the top; lobes 1-1} in. long, 3-1 in. broad, ovate, shortly 
acuminate ; outer corona-lobes about } in. long, 3-1 lin. broad, 
variable in different flowers on the same plant and often in the same 
flower, linear or linear-lanceolate, entire and acute, obtuse or sub- 
truncate, or bifid or minutely or shortly 3-toothed, pale greenish- 
yellow, with a large purple-brown spot at the base, a clear space 
above and on each side of it and the upper part variably speckled or 
dusted, or the whole dotted almost to the base with purple-brown ; 
inner corona-lobes equally 2-horned, pale greenish-yellow, thickly 
dotted or dusted with dark purple-brown ; inner horns 2-23 lin. 
long, connivent-erect, with recurved tips, filiform, more or less clavate 
at the apex ; outer horns 2—2# lin. long, ascending-spreading, laterally 
slightly compressed, straight, linear-filiform, obtuse, occasionally bifid. 
Jacq. Stap. t.31; Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 283; Curtis, Bot. Mag. 
t. 1833; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 36; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 
256 ; Kerner, Hort. Semp. t. 797 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 838 ; Dietr. 
Syn. Pl. ii. 884; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 658; Schlechter in Journ. 
Bot. 1898, 481. §S. maculata, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. v. 234. S. miata, 
J. Donn, Hort. Cantab. ed. 4, 53, not of Masson. Orbea maculosa, 
Haworth, Syn. Pl. Succ. 37; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 119. 
ORIGIN UNKNOWN : cultivated specimens ! 
Described from living plants. There is no evidence that 8. maculosa has ever 
been found in a wild state ; J. Donn states that it was introduced in 1799, but 
gives no description ; Jacquin merely states that he received it from England 
under the name of S. maculosa. In ed. 4 of Donn’s Hort. Cantab., 8. maculosa 
disappears from the list and S. mixta takes its place, and according to the 
testimony of old specimens at Kew it was cultivated as S. mixta, but is not 
S. mixta, Masson. From all this, however, I strongly suspect that S. maculosa is 
a hybrid raised from seed probably produced by S. mixta, and that Donn having 
_ made that discovery, altered the name to S, mixta. In the same manner hybrid 
Stapelias are in cultivation at the present period under the name of their seed- 
