1002 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). | Stapelia. 
[S. rugosa and var. coronata (Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 40, not of Jacquin) 
are hybrid forms unlike S. rugosa, Jacq., with corollas 24 in. in diam. and ovate 
acuminate lobes, not ciliate ; in rugosa yellow, with irregular purple-brown spots 
and very slender lines between them ; annulus circular, paler yellow than the 
lobes, but very thickly covered with rather large confluent purple-brown spots ; 
outer corona-lobes oblong-linear, 3-toothed, with the middle tooth minute, pale 
yellow, with a purple central stripe and darker dots on the apical part ; inner 
corona-lobes with the outer horn spreading. 
Var. coronata; lobes pale sulphur-yellow, irregularly variegated with dark 
purple-brown spots and markings, with slender lines between them ; annulus 
circular, with the margin and inuer part crimson-brown leaving a very irregular 
ring of light yellow between; corona as above, but the outer corona-lobes 
narrowed at the teeth. ] 
Var. i, pallida (N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. under t. 1907, p. 2); corolla 
acuminate in bud, when expanded with the disk nearly or quite flat on the back ; 
lobes very pale greenish-yellow or bright lemon-yellow, covered with very 
numerous dark purple-brown dots or small spots (scarcely half as large as those on 
the type), usually without (but occasionally with) some slender not very con- 
spicuous lines between the rugosities at the base, or rarely with clear borders and 
the central area covered with labyrinthine transverse purple-brown lines, both 
forms occasionally occur upon the same branch! annulus nearly round or very 
distinctly pentagonal ; outer corona-lobes bifid, with or without a minute tooth in 
the notch and the teeth parallel or somewhat diverging, all varieties sometimes 
produced on the same plant; outer horns of the inner corona-lobes equalling or 
rather shorter than the inner, ascending, usually but not always slightly thickened 
at the apex ; otherwise as in the type. 
Coast Recion : Cape Diy.; northern slopes of Table Mountain, Pillans, 116! 
cultivated in Port Elizabeth Botanic Garden and believed to come from an 
eastern province, Barkly, 2! and cultivated specimens! Pillans, 74! 
Var. j, Curtisii (N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. under t. 1907, p. 3); corolla pale 
greenish-yellow or lemon-yellow, with rather numerous and usually rather small 
purple-brown spots irregularly scattered or in longitudinal rows ; annulus circular, 
rather paler with smaller spots ; outer corona-lobes entire and very obtuse or sub- 
truncate, emarginate, or very minutely and equally 3-toothed at the apex, sometimes 
in the same flower! yellowish-green, dotted with purple-brown; outer horn of the 
inner corona-lobes about as long as or shorter than the inner, ascending, slightly 
thickened at the apex. Stapelia Curtisii, Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 88; Decne m 
DC. Prodr, viii. 659. 8S. variegata, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 26, not of Linn, 8S. inodora, 
Decne, l.c, 661. Orbea Curtisii, Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 40; G. Don, Gen. Syst. 1v- 
120. O. inodora, Haw. Suppl. Pl. Suce. 12; @. Don, lc. 121; Schlechter im 
Journ, Bot. 1898, 481. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, but probably near Cape Town, cultivated 
specimens ! 
There are forms which I cannot otherwise distinguish from this having the 
outer corona-lobes more or less bifid at the apex. I have not seen a specimen © 
Orbea inodora, Haw., but he only distinguishes it from var. Curtisii by its 
‘*smaller stems and retuse-emarginate” outer corona-lobes, both very variable 
characters. Sir Henry Barkly’s specimen (57) which I formerly quoted for this, 
has the outer corona-lobes much more deeply notched than in the type. 
[S. Curtisii, Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 38, is not the above plant, but 4 
hybrid, raised in Europe, probably between some form of S. variegata, var. 
atropurpurea and var. bufonia, with a corolla about 2 in. in diam., very dark 
purple-brown or violet-brown on the lobes, with a few irregular transverse and 
marginal yellowish markings and the circular annulus light yellow with rounded 
purple-brown spots ; outer corona-lobes bifid to 4 of the way down and tapering at “ 
the apex, pale yellow, dotted on the teeth and with a central stripe of purple- 
