1008 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [Stapelia. 
the same flower, bifid or sometimes subtruncate at the apex, pale 
yellow, thickly dotted on the apical half and with an irregular 
purple-brown blotch at the base; inner corona-lobes with both 
horns slightly clavate at the tips and the outer erect, as long as the 
inner, pale yellow without dots on the basal part, elsewhere dotted 
with purple-brown. WN. E. Br. in Gard, Chron. 1908, xliv. 169 and 
167, fig. 65. 
Oniaty : a hybrid from some variety of S. variegata ; cultivated specimens! 
Described from a living plant from Sir Thomas Hanbury’s garden at La 
Mortola, ] 
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Hybrids raised in Europe, not included in the key. 
(74. S. amena (Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 40); corolla 3 in. 
in diam.; lobes broadly ovate, shortly acuminate, not ciliate, 
sulphur-yellow, with rather few irregularly scattered dark purple- 
brown spots and very slender lines between them; annulus very 
large, 1} in. in diam., pentagonal, paler than the lobes, with small 
scattered round spots and dots of dark blood-red or purple-brown ; 
outer corona-lobes linear-oblong, slightly narrowed at the apex, bifid 
with a minute tooth in the notch, pale yellow with a dark purple or 
purple-brown spot at the base and dots on the apical part ; inner 
corona-lobes with the outer horn ascending. | 
(75. 8. angulosa (Tod. ex Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 38) ; 
stems rather stout ; corolla about 2 in. in diam., light yellow (paler. 
on the circular annulus) densely covered with purple-brown dots or 
very small spots, those on the annulus smaller ; lobes not ciliate; outer 
corona-lobes linear-oblong, bifid to } of the way down, pale yellow, 
dusted all over with purple-brown, without a basal spot; outer 
horn of inner corona-lobes suberect. 
- _ Var. Charybdis (Dammann ex Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 40); daywee le, 
in. in diam. ; lobes ovate, acute, minutely ciliate, light yellow, thickly cove: 
with irregular or elongated transverse purple-brown spots ; annulus circular, paler 
than the lobes, with rather crowded short purple-brown lines ; outer corona-lobes 
oblong, bifid with a minute tooth in the notch, greenish on the apical half, dotted 
with purple-brown, pale yellowish with a central purple stripe below ; inner 
corona-lobes more greenish tinted than usual, with the outer horn ascending. 
Var. Kreusa (Dammann ex Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 39) ; corolla 2 in. in 
diam. ; lobes ovate, acute, not ciliate, dark purple-brown with some scatter 
yellow specks and dots; annulus circular, pale yellowish, thickly dotted with 
blood-red or purple-brown ; outer corona-lobes bifid, with converging teeth and a 
minute tooth in the notch, pale yellow, with an elo gated purple-brown spot at 
the base and dots on the apical half; inner corona-lobes with the outer horn 
much shorter than the inner, suberect. 
Var. Nemea (Dammann ex Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 38) ; corolla ind 
- diam. ; lobes ovate, very short, subacuminate, ciliate with short clavate hairs, — 
dark purple-brown, with the basal 3 speckled with yellow; annulus apparently — 
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