1012 ASCLEPIADEA: (Brown). | Stapelia. 
bufonia, but the spots at the base of the lobes not or scarcely con- 
fluent and the outer corona-lobes have a minute tooth in the notch 
at their apex and no basal spot. | 
{86. 8. muricata (Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 37) ; corolla about 
2} in. in diam. ; lobes ciliate with short clavate hairs, pale yellow, 
thickly covered with small purple-brown spots, intermingled with 
slender transverse lines of the same colour, scarcely darker on the 
disk around the annulus, which is circular, densely dotted with 
purple-brown in the cup, pale yellow without markings on the 
border ; outer corona-lobes extending nearly or quite to the margin 
of the annulus, bifid to half-way down, with slightly diverging 
teeth, pale yellow, with a short basal stripe and dots on the teeth 
of purple-brown ; outer horn of inner corona-lobes suberect. | 
[87. 8. panifolia (Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 38); corolla 
23 in. in diam. ; lobes pale yellow, with rather few irregular purple- 
brown spots and numerous very slender purple-brown lines between 
the rugosities, not ciliate; annulus rather large, pentagonal, paler 
than the lobes, with small scattered round purple-brown spots ; 
corona as in S. variegata, var. bufonia. | 
[88. 8. parvipunctata (Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 39); corolla 
34-35 in, in diam.; lobes ovate, acuminate, not ciliate, pale 
greenish-yellow, thickly covered with small purple-brown spots and 
dots, with a suffused purple-brown area on the disk around the 
annulus extending in 5 rays to the sinuses; annulus pentagonal, 
paler than the lobes, with small round purple or purple-brown 
spots ; outer corona-lobes oblong-linear, 3-toothed at the apex, with 
the middle tooth minute, pale-yellow with a purple-brown spot at 
the base and dots on the apical part; inner corona-lobes with the 
outer horn nearly as long as the inner, erectly ascending. } 
[89. 8. purpurea, var. nigrescens (Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. 
vi. 43); corolla 21 in. in diam.; lobes ovate, long-acuminate, 
minutely ciliate, blackish-purple with a short pale yellow irregular 
longitudinal streak at their tips; annulus circular, blackish purple, 
without markings ; outer corona-lobes bifid, with slightly diverging 
teeth, pale yellowish with blackish-purple teeth and some purple 
specks near the base ; inner corona-lobes with blackish-purple horns 
and the basal part pale yellow, outer horn half as long as the inner, 
subulate. | : 
[90. S. putida (Berger in Monatsschr. Kakt. xv. 159); stems 
1}-2 in. long, 5-6 lin. thick ; corolla-lobes yellowish, with large 
__ purple-brown spots and a red line along the margins, not ciliate ;_ 
_ annulus with a much recurved margin, purplish-brown, obscurely 
