Stapelia. | ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 987 
ovate, acuminate, not ciliate, pale yellow spotted and dotted with 
blood-red (purple-brown?); corona? Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1291; Pers. 
Syn. Pl. i. 280; Poir. Encyel. vii. 388 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 94 ; 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 29; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 841; Dietr. Syn. Pl. 
ul, 887 ; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 655. Podanthes trrorata, Haw. 
Syn. Pl. Suce. 33; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 118. 
Sours Arrica: without locality, Masson. 
This species only appears to differ from S. verrucosa by the corolla being 
destitute of an annulus. It has not been refound by any other collector, and no 
specimen of it appears to have been preserved. 
63. S. verrucosa (Masson, Stap. 11, t. 8); stems erect, decumbent 
at the base, 14-3 in. long, 3-5 lin. thick (excluding the teeth), 
obtusely 4-angled, with spreading conical acute teeth 14-3 lin. long, 
glabrous, green ; flowers 1-3 together near the base of the young 
stems, developing successively ; pedicels }-11 in. long, spreading, 
glabrous ; sepals 24-5 lin. long, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, glabrous; corolla in bud conically pointed, with a 
depressed-ovate pentagonal basal part, when expanded 13—24 in. in 
diam., lobed to more than half-way down, with the united part 
saucer or shallowly basin-shaped, 2-3 lin. deep outside, having a 
distinct slightly raised pentagonal solid annulus surrounding the 
corona, about 4 lin. high, convex at the top, with 5 distinct 
channels radiating from the centre to its angles; lobes recurved- 
spreading, 8-10 lin. long, 6-8 lin. broad, deltoid-ovate, very acute 
or acuminate, not ciliate ; all parts glabrous or with some short 
erect hairs at the very base under and concealed by the corona, 
smooth outside, very rugose with small papilla-like tubercles or very 
short irregular transverse ridges on the inner surface, pale yellow, 
covered with small dark blood-red spots, smaller and more crowded 
on the annulus, with the area around the corona entirely dark 
purple or purple-brown ; outer corona-lobes horizontally or slightly 
defiexed-spreading, about 3? lin. long and broad, subquadrate, acutely 
bifid, with (always?) a minute tooth at the base of the broadly 
rounded notch, dark chocolate, with yellowish margins? inner corona- 
lobes about 1 lin. long from the shoulder, subhorizontally incumbent 
upon the backs of the anthers and slightly longer than them, but 
not or scarcely erect at the tips, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly 
gibbous on the back at the base, yellow, with the gibbosity and 
probably the margins purple-brown. Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1291, and 
Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 284; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 280; Poir. Encycl. 
vii. 387, and in Dict. Sc. Nat. 1. 392; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii, 94 ; 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 29; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 256 ; 
Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 840, 841; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 887 ; Decne in 
DC. Prodr. viii. 655. Podanthes verrucosa, Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 33 ; 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 118. ‘ 
Var. pulchra (N. E. Br. ); stems : lin. thick excluding the teeth, some- 
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