1004 ASCREPIADEA (Brown). [ Stapelia. 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Pillans, 71! and cultivated 
specimens ! 
Described from living plants. Some specimens of this variety cultivated as 
S. ciliolata are much less ciliate than others. 
Var. n, leta (N. E. Br.) ; corolla 24-3 in. in diam., light bright lemon-yellow, 
marked with large irregular rich crimson-brown spots on the lobes and with large 
spots of a brighter crimson on the annulus, those at the base of the lobes more or 
less confluent ; outer corona-lobes usually distinctly narrowed towards the apex, 
but sometimes with parallel sides, 3-toothed at the apex, with the middle tooth 
varying from minute to as long as the outer teeth, but always more slender, pale 
greenish-yellow, dotted to the base of the teeth with purple-brown and with a 
rectangular spot at the base and sometimes a transverse spot just below the teeth 
of the same colour ; inner corona-lobes with the outer horn rather shorter than the 
inner, ascending. S. picta, N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. under t. 1907, p. 4, not of 
Donn. 
SourH Arrica : locality unknown, cultivated in Cape. Town Botanic Garden, 
Barkly, 23! Pillans, 24! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm, 920! and cultivated 
specimens ! 
Described from living plants. % 
Var. 0, picta (N. E. Br.) ; stems rather slender, 3-4 Jin. thick ; corolla rather 
small, about 2 in. in diam., marked with large irregular blotches or confluent spots 
of very dark crimson-brown upon a pale yellow ground, which forms irregular 
transverse and longitudinal lines between them ; annulus rather lighter in colour 
than the lobes, with brighter spots; outer corona-lobés oblong-linear, divided 
nearly or quite to half-way down into 2 parallel linear teeth, otherwise as in the 
type. S. picta, J. Donn, Hort. Cantab. ed. 3, 43; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1169; Att. — 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 94; Poir. Encycl. Suppl. v. 288, 234 ; Allg. Teutsch. Gart. 
Mag. vii. 418, t. 42 (ex Schultes); Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol, i. 256. 8. 
anguinea, Jacq. Stap.t. 37; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 828; Link, lc. 257. S. angunea 
and S, picta, Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 41; Decne in DC. Prodr, viii. 660, 659 and 
661. Orbea anguinea and O. picta, Haw. Syn. Pl. Suce. 41, 42; @. Don, Gen. 
Syst. iv. 120. O. anguina, Loud. Hort. Brit. 96. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, cultivated specimens dated 1818, 1829 and 
1832 in Herb, Kew! and Herb. Haworth ! 
VaR. p, marmorata (N. E. Br.); corolla rather small, 13-2 in. in diam. ; 
lobes broadly ovate, subacuminate, not ciliate, blackish-purple, with a few 
irregular transverse and longitudinal pale yellow markings, annulus scarcely paler 
than the lobes, with a few irregular yellow markings and dots ; outer corona- 
lobes with parallel sides, bifid to about 4 of the way down, with parallel 
teeth, sulphur-yellow with a stripe down the centre and some dots on the teeth 
dark purple-brown; inner corona-lobes pale yellow, dotted with purple-brown, 
with the outer horn very short, not more than half as long as the inner 
horn, subulate, not clavate, erect. S. marmorata, Jacq. Stap. t. 38; Hornem. 
Hort. Bot. Hafn. ii. 959 ; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 40; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 
i. 257 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 888; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 885; Decne in DC. Prodr. 
viii. 660. Orbea marmorata, Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 834; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 120. 
Sourn Arrica ; without locality, cultivated specimen in Herb. Haworth ! 
_S. lunata, Dammann, and vars. wmbrosa and minuta (Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. 
vi. 43) are either hybrid forms or slight variations of S. variegata, var. marmorata, 
differing only as follows :—sS. lunata, corolla-lobes minutely ciliate, very 
purple-brown or blackish-purple with a pale yellow crescent-shaped marking and 
2-8 specks near the apex of each lobe and a pair of yellowish marks at each sinus + — 3 
annulus rather lighter than the lobes, speckled with yellow. Var. wmbrosa, — 
_ corolla-lobes not ciliate, somewhat reticulated with whitish-yellow at the tips 
_ only; annulus with larger whitish markings ; outer corona-lobes with dots at the 
