Stapelia. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 989 
Pillans, 65! Kaffraria, Bowker, 5! Var. 8: Alexandria Div. ; ‘* Bellevue,” Brockle- 
bank in Herb, Pillans, 655 ! 
CentRAL Recion: Var. 8: Somerset Div.; near Somerset East, Bowker ! 
MacOwan, 2177! Graaf Reinet Div.; near Graaf Reinet, Bolus, 716! Var. y 
Somerset Div. ; Glen Avon Estate, 2 miles east of Somerset East, Pillans, 604 ! 
Var. ¢€: same locality as var. y, Pillans, 56! Var. ¢: same locality as var. y, 
Pillans, 152! 189! Var. 7: same locality as var. y, Pillans, 192! 
Karanari Kecion: Var. 8: Griqualand West, Arnot (Barkly, 20)! cultivated 
specimens from the Diamond Fields, MacOwan, 2256 ! 
Masson’s type specimen of S. verrucosa is preserved in fluid at the British 
Museum and differs from all other specimens I have seen in the 5 very marked 
channels radiating to the angles of the annulus, they are represented in Masson’s 
figure by 5 black rays; no other collector appears to have foundit. The 
commonest form of the species seems to be var. 8 which Jacquin has figured 
as S. verrucosa, which varies considerably in the depth of the yellow ground-colour 
and the darkness of the spotting. 
64. S. pulchella (Masson, Stap. 22, t. 36); stems like those of 
S. variegata, 2-4 in. high, erect or decumbent at the base, 4-} in. 
thick, obtusely 4-angled, with stout conical acute spreading teeth, 
glabrous, green ; flowers usually 3 or more together, successively 
developed near the base of the stems ; pedicels 1-11 in. long, glabrous ; 
sepals 14-24 lin. long, ovate to lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 
glabrous ; corolla 14-2} in. in diam., smooth on the back, minutely 
tuberculate-rugulose and glabrous on the inner face, not ciliate, 
sulphur-yellow, covered with numerous purple-brown dots and specks, 
which are smaller and more crowded upon the annulus, and the lobes 
sometimes narrowly edged with purple-brown; disk shallowly 
saucer-shaped, with a solid more or less pentagonal annulus 4—7 lin. 
in diam., raised 4-3 lin. above the surface, and a pentagonal pale 
purplish area margined with brighter purple-red or occasionally 
entirely sulphur-yellow at the bottom of its cup; lobes 5-10 lin. 
long, 5-8 lin. broad, ovate or deltoid-ovate, very acute or acuminate, 
very spreading or recurved; outer corona-lobes 14-14 lin. long, 
+ lin. broad, linear or oblong-linear, obtuse, truncate, emarginate or 
minutely 3-toothed at the apex, dark purple-brown with a pale 
yellowish spot or somewhat A shaped mark below the apex and 
sometimes along the margins ; inner corona-lobes unequally 2-horned, 
pale yellow spotted with dark purple-brown, or purple-brown with 
yellow markings; outer horns ascending, }-} lin. long, conical or 
conical-subulate, obtuse ; inner horns ?—1} lin. long, connivent-erect 
or with recurving tips, filiform, varying from distinctly clavate to 
not at all thickened at the apex. Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1290; Pers. Syn. 
Pl. i. 280; Poir. Encyel. vii. 387, and in Dict. Sc. Nat. 1. 394; Ait. 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 93; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 30; Spreng. Syst. 
Veg. i. 838; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 885 ; Decne in DO. Prodr. viii. 655 ; 
Loud. Eneyel. Pl. 200, fig. 3312; N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1882, 
xviii, 199; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 482, excl. syn.; Berger 
in Monatsschr. Kakt. xiv. 127. Podanthes pulchella, Haw. Syn. Pl. 
Suce. 33; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 118. Le 
