1010 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Stapelia. 
brown, without spots, ciliate with clavate hairs } lin. long; 
annulus circular, pinkish, with small round purple-brown spots or 
dots ; outer corona-lobes oblong-linear, narrowed at the apex on the 
outer margins of the teeth, bifid to 3 of the way down, pale yellow, 
dusted with purple-brown on the teeth and down the centre, with 
or without a spot at the base ; outer horn of the inner corona-lobes 
spreading. 
Var. Bellona (Dammann ex Riist, l.c. 38) ; this only differs from var. Electra 
by the ground colour of the corolla-lobes being of a light purplish tint, the outer 
corona-lobes tapering at the apex from the base of the teeth and dotted all over 
the teeth as well as down the centre, the inner corona-lobes more thickly dotted 
and their outer horn nearly as long as the inner. 
Var. Electra (Dammann ex Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 38) ; corolla about 
2 in. in diam. ; lobes ovate, acute, pale yellow, thickly covered with purple-brown 
(or dark crimson-brown ?) irregular spots, those on the disk at the base of the lobes 
more or less confluent; annulus circular, paler than the lobes, with smaller 
rounded spots; outer corona-lobes bifid to about half-way down, light yellow, 
dotted with purple-brown on the inner edges of the parallel teeth and half-way 
down the centre, without a basal spot; inner corona-lobes rather thinly and 
minutely dotted with purple-brown, with the outer horn rather short, suberect. 
Var. Medusa (Dammann ex Riist, l.c. 39) is like var. Bellona, but the 
corolla-lobes are not ciliate and the ground colour is of a darker purplish tint ; 
annulus pinkish-white or sulphur-white with small round purple spots ; corona as 
in var. Bellona, but the outer lobes do not taper at the apex. ] 
Var. Muley Hassan (Dammann ex Riist, l.c. 37) only differs in having the 
annulus more thickly spotted. 
Var. tricolor (Riist, l.c. 39) ; stems more cylindric than in the other forms, very 
slightly or scarcely grooved between the rounded avgles ; corolla as-in the above 
varieties, but the lobes narrowly margined with dark purple-brown and their basal: 
half shaded with dull purple ; annulus light rosy-purplish with rather few small 
dark purple-brown round spots or dots ; outer corona with very diverging teeth, 
which are dotted along their inner margins and the dots continued down the 
centre ; both horns of the inner corona-lobes thickly dotted and the outer nearly 
as long as the inner.] 
(80. 8. erecta (Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 40); corolla 2 in. 
in diam. ; lobes ovate, acute, not ciliate, light yellow, rather evenly 
spotted with purple-brown, with the spots on the disk around the 
annulus confiuent in a narrow ring ; annulus circular, pale yellow, 
densely dotted with purple-brown; outer corona-lobes oblong-linear, 
3-toothed at the apex, with the middle-tooth very small, pale yellow, 
dotted on the apical half and down the centre with purple-brown, 
no basal spot; inner corona-lobes with the outer horn erectly 
ascending. | - 
a §. luxurians (Dammann ex Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 
39); corolla 3-3} in. in diam.; lobes elongated ovate-deltoid, 
acuminate, not ciliate, entirely dark purple-brown, with traces of 
yellowish on the rugosities on the basal part ; annulus: pentagonal, — 
entirely dark purple-brown ; outer corona-lobes linear-oblong, 
_ 8-toothed at the apex, with the middle tooth smallest, pale yellow, 
