992 ASCLEPIADEE (Brown). [ Stapelia. 
68. 8. lepida (Jacq. Stap. t. 43); plant very like S. variegata, 
glabrous in all parts, compactly branched ; stems 2-3 in. long, 4-5 
lin. thick, glabrous ; flowers 1-2 together near the base of the stems, 
successively developed ; pedicels 3-1 in. long ; sepals 2-24 lin. long, 
ovate, acute or acuminate ; corolla rather small, about 14 in. in diam., 
with a distinct annulus on the disk ; inner face transversely rugose 
on the lobes, granulate-tuberculate on the annulus, glabrous and not 
ciliate, sulphur-yellow, covered with rather small irregularly scattered 
dark purple-brown spots, without intermingling lines, those on the 
paler annulus smaller than those on the lobes, which are about } in. 
long, broadly ovate, acute; annulus with a recurved-spreading 
acute margin; outer corona-lobes 1} lin. long, #-1 lin. broad, 
oblong, emarginate or bifid, sometimes with a minute tooth at the 
base of the notch, very pale, greenish or greenish-yellow, with or 
without a central suffused and dotted stripe extending to about 3 of 
the way up or some dots around the teeth; inner corona-lobes 
2-horned, pale yellow or greenish, with or without purple-brown 
dots ; inner horn 14-13 lin. long, erect, recurving at the slightly 
clavate apex ; outer horn ascending-spreading, half as long as the 
inner or shorter, subulate. Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 280; 
R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 25; Hornem. Hort. Hafn. i. 248 ; Poir. 
Encycl. Suppl. v. 231; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 30; Link, Enum. Pl. 
Hort. Berol. i. 256 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg.i. 838 ; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 885 ; 
Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 661; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 481. 
S. limosa, Salm-Dyck, Hort. Dyck. 266. Podanthes lepida, Haw. 
Syn. Pl. Succ. 34. Orbea lepida, Haw. Suppl. Pl. Suce. 13 ; @. Don, 
Gen. Syst. iv. 121. 
SourH Arrica: raised from seed sent from South Africa by Scholl (ex Jacquin), 
cultivated specimens ! : 
There are excellent specimens of this species in Haworth’s Herbarium at 
Oxford. The stems as represented by Jacquin (as in so many other cases) are 
abnormally very much elongated; when grown under proper conditions, a8 
evidenced by Haworth’s specimens, they are short, erect and compact. 
is closely allied to S. variegata, but its flowers are very much smaller and have @ 
sae aie appearance, It does not appear to have been refound since Scholl 
collected it. 
69. 8. variegata (Linn. Sp. Pl. i. 217); plant glabrous in all 
parts, freely branching at the base ; stems erect from a decumbent 
base, 2-6 in. long, 4-5 lin. (in some varieties and hybrids up to } in.) 
square, very obtusely 4-angled, with conical acute spreading teeth, 
1 Fe lin. long, often having a minute tooth (stipule) on each side 
of the withering point, green, often mottled all over or tinted with 
purple at the tips; flowers 1-5 together at the base of the young 
stems, developing successively ; pedicels 1-2} in. long, 1-1} lin. 
thick ; sepals 24-4 lin. long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate ; corolla 2--3 in. in diam.; disk with a pentagonal 
annulus }-{ in. in diam., having a recurved acute-edged rim ; lobes _ S 
gl in. long, }-% in. broad, ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, flat, 
