998 ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). [ Stapelia. 
Var. b, marginata (N. E. Br.); corolla-lobes narrowly margined and covered 
with small irregularly scattered spots of dark purple-brown, without intermingling 
lines or a suffusion of purple-brown at their base around the subpentagonal 
annulus, which is of a paler yellow with rather small dots of purple-brown ; 
outer corona-lobes not much longer than broad, oblong, shortly bifid, 
with a broad notch and subparallel or very slightly diverging obtuse teeth, pale 
yellowish dotted only on the teeth with purple-brown and with 3 spots of the 
same colour at the base, ‘‘the middle one oblong, yellow in the centre, the 
lateral shorter, clavate” (Willdenow) ; horns of the inner corona diverging, with 
the outer’ subulate, obtuse; otherwise as in the type. S. marginata, Willd. 
Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 13; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 39 ; Link, Enum, Pl. 
Hort. Berol. i. 257 ; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 659 ; Schlechter in Journ, Bot. 
1898, 481. .S. planiflora, var. marginata, Willd. Enum. Pl, Hort. Berol. 284 ; 
Poir. Encycl. Suppl. v. 232. Orbea maryinata, Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 834; 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 120. 0. planiflura, var, marginata, G. Don, 1.c. 120. 
I have seen a specimen of this from Herb, Link in the Berlin Herbarium, but 
have not seen it alive. 
[S. marginata, Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 37, not of Willd., is a hybrid, 
with a corolla about 3 in. in diam. ; lobes minutely but distinctly ciliate with 
(apparently) simple hairs, dark purple-brown along the margins and on the apical 
half, with the centre of the basal half yellow, spotted with purple-brown, and the 
disk around the annulus purple-brown ; annulus circular, light yellow, densely 
spotted with purple-brown in the cup, almost without spots on the rim ; outer 
corona-lobes oblong-linear, bifid to 4 of the way down, pale yellow, dusted on the 
teeth and down the centre with purple-brown and having a spot at the base.] 
Var. c, planiflora (N. E. Br.); corolla acute in bud; disk flat on the back 
when expanded; spots on the lobes irregularly scattered, without or with 
inconspicuous slender purple-brown lines intermingled with them ; outer corona- 
lobes bifid, teeth not spreading ; inner corona-lobes with subequal horns, the 
outer ascending-spreading, slightly or not at all clavate at the apex ; otherwise as 
in the type. S. planiflora, Jacq. Stap. t. 40 ; Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 284; 
Poir. Encycl. Suppl. v. 232; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 88; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 191 ; 
Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 256; Decne in DC. Prodr, viii. 659; N. E. Br. 
in Journ, Linn. Soc, xvii. 169. 8. variegata, Jacq. Miscell. i. 27, t. 4, and Amer. 
Gewiich. i, t. 94; DOC. Plant. Grass. t. 149; Tratt. Thesaur. t. 18, not of Linn. Ss. 
mutabilis, Hulle in Rev. Hort. Belg. 1889, 193, with fig., not of Jacg. Orbea 
planiflora, Haw. Suppl. Pl. Succ. 12; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 120. 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, cultivated specimens ! 
In the Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 61, Weingart records a case in which this plant 
'.. produced during one year stems variegated with white, but the following year 
only normally green stems. He failed to propagate the variegated form. 
Pl. Hort. Berol, 283 ; Poir, Encycl. Suppl. v. 232; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 405 
Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 88 . syns.) ; . Syn. Pl. ii. 885; Decne in DC. 
rie ee dd. Bot. Cab. t. 832. S. buffoniana, G. Don, Gen. — 
