988 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Stapelia. 
purple-brown ; annulus 4-3 lin. high, purple at the pentagonal bottom of the cup, 
without distinct channels radiating from the centre to the angles; outer corona- 
lobes obtusely or acutely bifid, without a minute tooth in the rounded notch, 
dark chocolate, with or without yellowish margins, shining ; inner corona-lobes 
3-1 lin. long from the shoulder, ovate and obtuse to lanceolate and acuminate, 
shorter to slightly longer than the anthers, sometimes slightly ascending but not 
meeting at the tips, yellow, with the margins and a stripe from the gibbosity 
down the back chocolate; follicles 43-5 in. long, 4 in. thick, fusiform, 
acuminate, smooth, glabrous, striped with purple-brown ; seeds about 8 lin. long 
and 24 lin. broad, ovate, flat, smooth, light brown, with a broad somewhat 
inflated ochreous-brown shining margin ; otherwise as in the type. 8S. pulchra, 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 28; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 886; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 656. 
S. verrucosa, Jacq. Stap. t. 18; Loud. Encycl, Pl. 200, Jig. 3310; Wien. Jil. Gart. 
Zeit. 1894, 234, fig. 31, and (a copy of the same) Rev. Hort. Belg. 1895, xxi. 
77, fig. 13 (bad Jigures); N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. under t. 1923 ; Schlechter in 
Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 14, and Journ, Bot. 1898, 484 (excl. syn. S. irrorata, 
Masson), not of Masson, 8. irrorata, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 127, not of Masson. Podanthes 
pulehra, Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 32; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 117. 
Var. y, robusta (N. E. Br.); stems very stout, 5-8 lin. thick excluding the 
teeth, green, sometimes mottled with dull purplish; flowers as in var. B, with 
a purple-brown area at the bottom of the cup formed by the annulus, otherwise as 
in the type. S, verrucosa, Curtis, Bot. Mag.t.786. Podanthes pulchra, var. 8, Haw. 
Syn. Pl. Suce. 338. P. pulchra, var. major, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 1, 278. 
P. pulchra, var. verrucosa, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 118. 
Var. 5, punetifera (N. E. Br.); stems 4-5 lin. thick excluding the 2-4 lin. 
long teeth, mottled and striped with dull purplish ; corolla very pale or creamy 
yellow, marked with very small spots or minute pale purple dots; outer corona 
light purple ; otherwise as in var. B. 
Var, €, pallescens (N. E. Br.); corolla with a distinct cup or basin-like tube 
about 4 lin. deep, measured outside ; lobes much acuminate, very pale yellow, 
with small purple-brown or brownish-red dots ; otherwise as in var B. 
_ Var. ¢, roriflua (N. E. Br.) ; corolla with a distinct cup or basin-like tube 4-5 
lin. deep outside, light yellow or pale greenish-yellow, spotted with larger and 
darker (sometimes ‘almost. black,” Pillans) spots than in var. ¢ ; annulus often 
(always ?) adnate to the wall of the tube and somewhat resembling a shelf-like 
thickening of it around the corona ; otherwise as in var. B. 8S. roriflua, Jacq. 
Stap. t. 19; Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 285; Poir. Encycl. Suppl. v. 234 ; 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 30; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 257 ; Spreng. Syst. 
Veg. i. 840 (exel. syn.) ; Kerner, Hort, Semp. t. 322; Decne in DC. Prodr, viii. 656. 
S. roriflora, Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 886, excl. syn. S. rugosa, Wendl, Coll, Pl. ii. 41, 
t. 52 (not of Jacq.). 8S. wendlandiana, Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 39; Decne in DC. 
Prodr. viii. 659. Podanthes roriftua, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 1, 278; G. Don, Gen. 
Syst. iv. 118. Piaranthus rorifluus, Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 664. Orbea 
wendlandiana, Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 834 ; Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 1, 277 ; G. Don, 
Gen, Syst. iv. 120, 
VaR. 7, conspicua (N. E. Br.) ; stems 4-5 lin, thick, excluding the 2-3 lin.-long 
teeth, green ; corolla about 1% in. in diam., with the united part saucer- or 
shallowly basin-shaped 2-24 lin. deep outside, light yellow, marked with rounded 
dark purple-brown spots avout 1 lin. in diam., much larger than in any other 
variety ; otherwise as in var. f. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Masson! Var. 8: Pillans, 645! cultivated 
specimen! Var. 8: cultivated specimens ! 
_ Coast Recion: Var. 8: Uniondale Div. ; rocky hill near Haarlem, Burchell, — 
_ 5022! Bathurst Div.; Port Alfred, Mrs. Hutton! and in Herb. Pillans, 654! — 
_ 656! Albany Div. ; Hell Poort and other places near Grahamstown, MacOwan! 
Pillans, 15! 30! omaha one ed et 5 Div.; near Komgha, Flanagan, 
696 (ex e south of Waku Station, 
