Stapelia. | ASCLEPIADE& ( Brown). 1003 
Var. k, retusa (N. E. Br.) ; corolla flat on the back, coloured much as in var. 
bufonia but less darkly at the base of the lobes and the spots on the pentagonal 
annulus usually fewer, larger and more irregular in form ; outer corona-lobes 
rather long, linear or tapering from base to apex, with a very small notch or very 
shortly bifid or sometimes very minutely 3-toothed at the tips, pale yellowish- 
green, marked at the tips and down the centre with dots or very minute specks of 
purple-brown' and a rather paler square spot at the base; both horns of the 
inner corona-lobes clavate, the outer rather shorter than the inner, ascending- 
spreading ; otherwise as in the type. 8S. retusa, Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 41; Decne 
in DC. Prodr. viii. 660 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 483. Orbea retusa, Haw, 
Syn, Pl. Suce. 41; G. Don, Gen, Syst. iv. 120. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, cultivated specimens ! 
[S. retusa (Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 37, not of Schultes) is a hybrid form 
with a corolla 24 in. in diam., pale yellow, rather sparsely covered with dark 
brownish-crimson spots more or less arranged in irregular longitudinal rows on the 
lobes and confluent on the disk in an irregular dark ring around the annulus ; 
lobes somewhat elongated ovate, acuminate, minutely ciliate with pale yellowish 
or white hairs; annulus small, circular, rather brighter than the lobes with 
scattered round spots as large as those on the lobes ; outer corona-lobes extending 
to or beyond the margin of the annulus, deeply bifid, with diverging teeth, pale 
yellow, with a purple-brown stripe down the basal part and minute dots on the 
apical half ; outer horn of inner corona-lobes somewhat spreading. ] 
Var. 1, brevicornis (N. E. Br.) ; corolla 2}-23 in. in diam. ; disk saucer-shaped ; 
lobes not ciliate, thickly covered on a greenish-yellow ground with dark purple- 
brown irregular or transverse spots, which become more or less confluent into 
irregular transverse or thick lines on the basal part, with somewhat labyrinthine 
yellow lines between them; annulus varying from nearly circular to pentagonal, 
dark purple-brown with a few irregular yellowish vein-like markings or 1 or 2irregular 
yellowish concentric lines on its rim, from the rather large spots being very crowded 
or subconfluent into an irregular ring, and in the cup part from the much smaller 
spots or dots being densely crowded or subconfluent ; outer corona-lobes 4 in. 
long, oblong, bifid to 4 or 4 of the way down, with parallel teeth, with a few 
rather large subconfluent blackish- or very dark purple-brown dots on the apical 
helf, a transverse yellow band at the middle, and a transverse purple-brown spot 
or band at the base ; inner corona-lobes with the outer horn very short, about 3-3 
as long as the inner, very spreading, subulate, subacute or obtuse, both horns 
irregularly banded or marked with blackish- or very dark purple-brown and 
yellow ; otherwise as in the type. 
Sourn Arrica : locality unknown, Pillans, 47! 
Described from a living plant. 
Var. m, conspureata (N. E. Br.); corolla rather small, about 2 in. in diam., 
flattish on the back under the pentagonal or suborbicular annulus ; lobes minutely 
but distinctly ciliate nearly to their tips with subclavate white and purple-brown 
hairs, rather darkly coloured from the irregular spots being more or less confluent 
and often covering the greater part of the lobe ; outer corona-lobes varying from 
entire and acute to deeply bifid with parallel teeth or minutely and equally 
3-toothed at the apex, even in different flowers on the same plant ; inner corona-— 
horns subequal or the outer shorter and ascending-spreading, acute or slightl 
clavate ; otherwise as in the type. S. conspurcata, Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 
284; Jacq. Stap. t. 32; Poir. Encycl. Suppl. v. 231 ; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 39 ; 
Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 888 ; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 256; Decne in DC. 
Prodr. viii. 660; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 479. 8. ciliolata, Tod. Ind. Sem. 
Hort. Panorm. 1861, 10, name only. S. A Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 
pie o 13 ; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 35 ; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i, 257 ; Decne 
in DC. Prodr. viii. 657 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 482. Orbea conspurcata, 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 834; G@. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 120. Tromotriche obliqua, — 
Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 1, 278; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 119. ; ey 
