Stapelia.] ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 1005 
apical part only, no central stripe. Var. minuta, corolla-lobes minutely ciliate, 
with a pale yellowish marking something like a flattened ring with 2 teeth on 
each ; annulus with a few small yellowish marks; outer corona-lobes with the 
teeth slightly diverging. 
S. marmorata, Riist, l.c. 38, is totally different from S. marmorata, Jacq., and 
merely a hybrid form of S. variegata with a corolla 22 in. in diam., minutely 
ciliate on the lobes, which are margined and marked with a few large spots and 
blotches of dark purple-brown ; annulus paler with a few smaller purple-brown 
spots. 
Var. q, atropurpurea (N. E. Br.) ; corolla 24-3} in. in diam., intense blackish- 
purple with a few irregular yellowish markings, which are sometimes chiefly on the 
-apical at others on the basal half of the lobes, or sometimes form an irregular or 
broken circle on each lobe; lobes broadly ovate, shortly acuminate ; annulus 
pentagonal or subcircular, with or without 5 pairs of slightly raised ridges 
radiating from the centre to the angles, usually with a few spots or irregular 
marks of yellowish, but sometimes entirely blackish-purple, outer corona-lobes 
23-3 lin. long, oblong or linear-oblong, variable, shallowly to rather deeply bifid, 
with or without a minute tooth at the base of the notch (sometimes in the same 
flower !), or subequally 3-toothed at the apex, with the teeth parallel, pale 
yellow, dotted or marked with dark purple-brown at the apex, with the dots 
sometimes extending down the middle, or with a pale purplish spot at the base ; 
inner corona-lobes with the outer horn as long as the inner, slightly thickened at 
‘the apex, ascending-spreading ; otherwise as in the type. _S. atropurpurea, Salm- 
Dyck, Hort. Dyck. 372; Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 659 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 
1898, 479. S. marmorata, Hulle in Rev. Hort. Belg. 1889, 193, with fig. 
Sour Arrica : without locality ; cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div. ; northern shores of Robben Island, Pillans, 82! 
‘132! and cultivated specimens ! 
I have not seen an authentic specimen of S. atropurpurea, Salm-Dyck, but the 
-described plant fairly well accords with the original description, and I received 
a living plant of it over 30 years ago from a correspondent who informed 
me that he had it years before from the Continent as S. atropurpurea. It is 
very nearly related to var. marmorata but larger, and varies very considerably 
in the markings on the corolla. This particular form is, I understand from Mr. 
Pillans, confined to Robben Island. 
S. Scylla, Dammann, Cat. 1894-1895, 120 and 109, fig. 77; Wien. Ill. Gart. 
Zeit. 1894, xix. 234, fig. 30, is a variety or hybrid form with about 3 irregular 
longitudinal yellowish markings on each lobe. 
[S. atropurpurea (Riist, not of Salm-Dyck) and vars. rosea and Pan (Riist in 
Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 40); these are hybrids, showing no connection with 
S. atropurpurea, Salm-Dyck ; tha first is a hybrid form very similar to S. variegata, 
var. trisulca, with a corolla 3} in. in diam. ; lobes similarly coloured, but rather 
-darkly spotted and the ground colour of the annulus is overspread or suffused with 
purple-brown, with round spots of a darker purple-brown. 
Var. rosea has a corolla 2? in. in diam. with ovate subacute lobes, not ciliate, 
very pale yellowish, with irregular blood-red spots and numerous fine lines between 
them, the spots on the disk around the annulus more or less confluent; annulus 
pentagonal, paler than the lobes, with numerous round blood-red spots ; outer 
corona-lobes, linear-oblong, 3-toothed at the apex, with the middle tooth smallest, 
pale yellow, with purple-brown dots on the apical part and down the centre and a 
spot at the base ; inner corona-lobes with the outer horn suberect. 
Var. Pan has a corolla 8} in. in diam. ; lobes elongate-ovate, acute or acuminate, 
not ciliate, light yellow, densely and evenly spotted with dark purple-brown ; 
annulus caedal. suffused with brownish-red, with rather large round purple- 
brown spots and some yellow specks ; corona as in var. rosea.) _ Bee 
