986 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). | Stapelia. 
(60. S. tridentata (Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 49, and G. Don, Gen. 
Syst. iv. 117, name only); according to the testimony of dried 
specimens at Kew and in the Berlin Herbarium, cultivated at Berlin 
between 1806 and 1812, this is exactly like S. maculosa in the 
size, form and coloration of the corolla, and the corona is the same, 
but differs from that in having no hairs upon the disk and annulus 
and the lobes are ciliate with clavate hairs } lin. long, the spots on 
the lobes are also smaller and more numerous. 
ORIGIN UNKNOWN : probably a hybrid raised in Europe, cultivated specimens !] 
61. 8. Barklyi (N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1909) ; plant 3-4 
in. high, branching at the base; stems erect, 34—3 in. square, with 
obtuse angles and stout spreading conical teeth 2-3 lin. long, 
minutely puberulous ; flowers 1-2 together near the base of the 
stems; pedicels stout, 2-4 in. long, glabrous to the eye, but 
with a very minute and rather sparse pubescence ; sepals 44 lin. 
long ; corolla 5-6 in. in diam. with the lobes extended, rotate, with 
a thick solid annulus 1 in. or more in diam. on the disk, glabrous 
on the back and on the slightly rugose inner surface of the 
lobes, with the annulus and disk around it loosely villous with 
Jong soft purple hairs and the lobes ciliate with similar hairs, purple- 
brown, marked with numerous transverse pale yellow lines on the 
disk and basal 2 of the lobes, with their apical third entirely dark 
purple-brown ; lobes 12-2 in. long, about 14 in. broad, ovate, 
acute or acuminate; annulus stout, solid, with 5 slight broad 
crenations formed by 5 shallow grooves radiating from the centre, 
“ buff, with yellowish transverse wrinkles ” (Barkly) ; outer corona- 
lobes ascending-spreading, 3}—4 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, linear-oblong, 
acuminate, channelled down the face, yellow, dotted or mottled with 
purple-brown ; inner corona-lobes 2-horned, purple-brown ; outer 
horn 13-2 lin. long, free to the base, ascending, laterally flattened, 
subulate or deltoid-subulate, entire or toothed behind or at the apex ; 
inner horn 3-3} lin. long, subulate, recurving from about the middle. 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 479. 
WesTERN Recion: Little Namaqualand ; near Ookiep, Morris (Barkly, 31)! 
Described from a specimen in fluid and a coloured drawing. 
62. S. irrorata (Masson, Stap. 12, t. 9); stems erect, decumbent 
at the base, 13-3} in. long, }-} in. thick excluding the teeth, 
obtusely 4-angled, glabrous, green ; teeth conical, acute, spreading, 
2—3 lin. long ; flowers solitary (always?) at the base of the stems ; 
pedicels about 1 in. long, glabrous ; sepals ovate, acute, glabrous ; 
— corolla about 2} in. in diam., pentagonal and acutely pointed in 
_ bud, glabrous and smooth outside, rugose on the glabrous inner 
face; disk depressed or saucer-shaped, purplish according to the 
_ figure ; annulus none ; lobes spreading, 3-1 in. long, 7-8 lin. broad 
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