Stapelia. | ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown), 993 
radiately spreading or slightly recurved, 5-7-nerved ; back smooth, 
green, suffused on the lobes and nerved with purplish ; inner surface 
rugose with crowded irregular transverse ridges on the lobes and 
with small crowded granule-like tubercles on the annulus, otherwise 
glabrous and without a trace of minute ciliation on the lobes, pale 
greenish-yellow with dark purple-brown spots arranged in 6-7 longi- 
tudinal rows or sometimes irregularly scattered, besides a series along 
the margins, intermingled with slender lines of the same colour, but 
not producing a dark etfect on the basal part of the lobes, paler yellow 
with much smaller spots or dots of purple-brown on the annulus ; 
outer corona-lobes ascending-spreading, 2-23 lin. long, linear-oblong, 
with parallel sides, minutely and obtusely 3-toothed at the apex, 
with the longer teeth not more than 4-4 of the length of the lobe, 
pale yellow, dotted or dusted with purple-brown and with a square 
spot of the same colour at the base; inner corona-lobes 2-horned, 
pale yellow, dotted with purple-brown ; horns filiform, inner about 
1} lin. long, connivent-erect with recurved clavate and minutely 
tuberculate tips, outer suberect or ascending, straight, slightly 
clavate, rather shorter than or about as long as the inner. Linn. 
Syst. Nat. ed. 12, ii. 194. 8. normalis, Jacq. Stap. t. 42 ; Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. vi. 39; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 256 ; Spreng. 
Syst. Veg. i. 838; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 885; Decne in DC. Prodr. 
viii. 660. §. woodfordiana, Schultes, Le. 41 > Dank, Ge, 267. 
Decne, lc. 661. Orbea normalis, Schultes, l.c. 834 3; G. Don, Gen. 
Syst. iv. 120. 0. woodfordiana, Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 42 ; G. Don, 
Lew k21, 
(The following references may belong here or partly to the varieties noted 
below :—S. variegata, Miller, Gard. Dict. ed. 8; Burm. Fl. Cap. Prodr.7 ; Rott. 
Bot. Udstrakte Nytte, 62, fig. 10; Poir. Tabl. ii. 325, t. 178, fig. 1; Eneyel. vii. 
388, and Dict. Sc. Nat. 1. 391; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i, 309 and ed. 2, ii. 95 ; 
Willd. Sp. Pl. 1292, and Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol, 283; Moench, Suppl. Meth. 
Pl. 314; Pers, Syn. Pl. i, 280 ; Herb. Gén. Amat. ii. t. 125 ; Drapiez, Herb. Amat. i. 
t. 41; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 37; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 256; Spreng. 
Syst. Veg. i. 8838; Brongn. in Ann. Sc. Nat. xxiv. 268, 279, t. 14; Schlechter 
in Journ, Bot. 1898, 483, partly. Orbea variegata, Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ, 40.— 
Fritillaria crassa promontorii bone spei ce., Stapel in Theophrast. Hist. Pl. (1644), 
335, with fig. Apocynum humile aizoides &c., Hermann, Hort. Acad. Lugd. Bat. 
Cat. 52 and 53, with fig.; Ray, Hist. Pl. (ed. 1688) ii. 1903 ; Pluk. Almagest. Bot. 
37, with fig. Asclepias aizoides aphylla &c., Moris. Hist. Pl. iii. 611, § 15, t. 3, 
Jig. 4. Crassa Rivini, Rupp. Fl. Jen. ed. 1718, 26-27.  Stapelia denticulis 
ramorum extrorsum prominentibus, Linn. Hort. Clif. 77. Stapelia denticulis 
ramorum patentibus, Royen, Fl. Leyd. Prodr. 409. _ The plant figured as the 
‘Small Cape Fritillary,” ‘‘ Apocynum fritillaricum minus,” in Petiver, Opera, i. 
(Gazoph. dec. ix.) 10, Cut, no. 450, t. 90, fig. 4, may be intended for some form of 
this species.) 
Coast Recon: Cape Div. ; Table Mountain or Lion Mountain, Prior! and 
cultivated specimens! Variations (enumerated below) according to Mr. Pillans, 
