Stapelia. | ASCLEPIADEE (Brown). 1007 
[71. 8. scutellata (Tod. Hort. Panorm. i. 52, t. 13, fig. 2); corolla 
25-3 in. in diam., slightly basin-like under the annulus and some- 
what convex on the back ; lobes ciliolate nearly to their tips with 
minute thick or subclavate hairs, light yellow, marked to their tips with 
dark purple-brown transverse spots and thick irregularly confluent 
wavy lines; annulus with a recurved-spreading margin, of a paler 
yellow, with small purplish-brown dots and spots; outer corona- 
lobes bifid, with diverging or parallel teeth, sometimes with a 
minute tooth in the notch; horns of the inner corona subequal ; 
otherwise as in S. variegata, Linn. 
- ORIGIN : raised from seed in Europe, doubtless a hybrid, cultivated specimen |} 
[72. 8. albicans (Sprenger in Dammann, Cat. 1894, 58 and 53, 
fig. 51); stems like those of S. variegata, L., whitish or partly 
whitish and partly green, often becoming entirely green ; corolla 
2—2} in. in diam., dark purple-brown at the tips of the lobes and 
along the margins, the remainder of the rugose inner surface yellow, 
with elongated transverse spots or thick broken lines of dark 
purple-brown ; lobes ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, ciliate with 
minute clavate hairs about } lin. long; annulus with its margin 
very slightly recurved ; outer corona-lobes linear-oblong, varying 
from acute to 3-toothed at the apex ; inner corona-lobes 2-horned, 
horns filiform, the inner clavate and rather longer than the spread- 
ing simple outer horn. Wien. Ill. Gart. Zeit. 1894, 234, fig. 29. 
Oricin: A hybrid raised by Messrs. Dammann & Co. at Naples ; cultivated 
specimens ! 
Described from a living plant received from Mr. Sprenger, and raised from 
seeds of one of Todaro’s species ; as the flower is much like that of S. angulata, 
Tod., in general character, that may have been its seed-parent.] 
(S. alba, mentioned by Rother and others in Monatsschr. Kakt. v. 13, 15, and 30, 
without a description, is perhaps only another name for S, albicans, I have not 
seen it.] 
[73. 8. hanburyana (Berger and Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. ix. 6, 
fig. 7); stems like those of S. variegata, about 5-6 lin. thick ; 
pedicels about 1} in. long; sepals 24-3 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, 
ovate, acute or acuminate; corolla 24-2} in. in diam., not very 
rugose on the inner surface; lobes very spreading or recurving, 
about 10 lin. long and 8 lin. broad at the base, ovate, somewhat 
acuminate, ciliolate with minute subclavate hairs, pale greenish- 
yellow, evenly marked all over with rather small transverse purple- 
brown spots or short lines and narrowly edged with the same colour, 
the tips rather darker than the rest from the furrows between the 
rugosities being traversed with fine purple-brown lines ; annulus 
very flat-topped with a horizontally spreading margin, whitish- 
yellow, much paler than the lobes, marked above and beneath with 
small rounded purple-brown spots which are often confluent in short 
chains ; outer corona-lobes oblong or broadened upwards, even in 
