990 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [ Stapelia. 
Coast Region : Uitenhage Div. ; near the bank of the Zwartkops River in the 
vicinity of Zwartkops Station, Rabjohn! Port Elizabeth Div. ; sand-dunes along 
the coast south of Port Elizabeth, Herb. Pillans, 84! Alexandria Div. ; sandflats, 
Brocklebank in Herb. Pillans, 136 ! 
This species by its 2-horned inner corona-lobes and small solid annulus: 
completely connects the groups to which S. verrucosa and S. variegata respectively 
belong. 
[65. 8. cupularis (N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1897, xxii. 45); stems: 
like those of S. variegata, 3-8 in. long, 4~7 lin. thick ; flowers 1-3 
together ; corolla in bud flattened, with a short obtuse point, pent- 
agonal, with the sinal angles projecting and slightly recurved ; when 
expanded about 2 in. in diam., slightly rugose on the glabrous inner 
face, pale lemon-yellow (rather lighter on the annulus), thickly 
covered with dark purple-brown spots, which are often confluent. 
into irregular lines so that the yellow ground forms labyrinthine lines: 
between them; disk saucer-shaped ; annulus about 3 in. in diam., 
4 in. deep, nearly circular, cup-shaped, with an erect acute margin ; 
lobes recurved, 8-9 lin. long and about the same in breadth, ovate, 
acute, ciliolate with minute clavate hairs ; outer corona-lobes 24 lin. 
long, deeply bifid with parallel slightly diverging teeth and a minute 
tooth at the base of the notch, pale greenish-yellow, dotted at the 
apex and down the middle with dark purple-brown and with a spot 
of it at the base; horns of the inner corona-lobes subequal, both 
clavate at the apex, pale yellow, dotted with purple-brown, outer 
horn slightly spreading. 
Ortcin: a hybrid raised in Europe, cultivated specimen ! 
Described from living plants. This is doubtless a hybrid between S. mutabilis, 
Jacq., and some form of S. variegata, Linn, ] 
(66. S. angulata (Tod. Hort. Bot. Panorm. i. 54, t. 13, fig. 3); 
stems about 24 in. high, like those of 8. variegata, L. ; corolla about 
24 in. in diam., purple-brown, marked to the tips of the lobes with 
numerous labyrinthine transverse yellowish lines; lobes ovate, 
spreading or recurved, minutely ciliate with clavate hairs ; annulus 
pentagonal or subcircular, with an erect or scarcely recurved margin, 
light yellowish, dotted with purple-brown ; outer corona-lobes more: 
or less narrowed and 2-3-toothed at the apex ; inner corona-lobes. 
2-horned, pale yellowish, minutely dotted with purple-brown ; horns: 
filiform, clavate, subequal or the outer shorter. 
OriGIn : a hybrid raised in Europe, cultivated specimen ! 
Described from a living plant. S. mutabilis, Jacq., is in all probability one of 
its parents, The yellowish markings on the corolla are narrower in the specimen 
seen than in Todaro’s figure. ] gi 
67. S. namaquensis (N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1882, xviii. 648, — 
_ including var. minor) ; stems procumbent or decumbent, 1}-3} in. — 
