1014 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [Stapelia. 
and very small slender irregular lines on the inner part of the rim ; 
outer corona-lobes shortly bifid, light yellow, with a central stripe 
and some dots on the teeth dark purple-brown ; inner corona-lobes 
with dark purple-brown horns ; inner horn dusted with yellow at 
the apex. | 
(95. S. umbilicata (Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 40); corolla 
24 in. in diam. ; lobes ovate, acute, not ciliate, sulphur-yellow, with 
violet-brown rounded spots, those on the disk around the annulus 
confluent ; annulus subpentagonal, pale yellow, with small round 
blood-red spots ; outer corona-lobes linear-oblong, narrowed at the 
bifid apex, pale yellow, with a purple-brown spot at the base and 
dots on the teeth and down the centre ; inner corona-lobes with the 
outer horn suberect. | 
[96. 8. Uspenskyi (Riist in Monatsschr, Kakt. vi. 38) is either a 
variation or hybrid form of var. bufonia, with the spots at the 
- base of the lobes less confluent and transversely much elongated ; 
lobes short, broad, and more abruptly acuminate than usual ; 
annulus rather large, pentagonal ; outer corona-lobes without a spot 
at the base and the outer horn of the inner corona-lobes spreading. | 
Imperfectly known species. 
97. 8. canescens (Haw. Syn. Pl. Suce. 26; Schultes, Syst. Veg. 
vi. 26; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 117; Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 663 ; 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 479); name only, without 
description. 
98. 8. cordata (Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 26; Schultes, Syst. Veg. 
vi. 26 ; G, Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 116; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 663 ; 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 479); name only, without 
description. 
99. S. emarginata (Breit. Hort. Breit. 504) ; name only, without 
description. 
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100. 8. gemmifera (Salm-Dyck, Hort. Dyck. 266); name only, 
without description, but placed in the same group as S. variegata, 
Linn., and allies. 
101. 8. fasciculata (Thunb. Prodr. 46); stems about 1 in. long, 
fasciculate, decumbent, teretely subhexagonal, with spreading acute 
tubercles, glabrous, reddish at the apex ; pedicel as long as the 
stem ; calyx (perianth of Thunberg) very deeply 5-partite ; segments 
I iin. long, ovate, acute, glabrous, persistent; follicles 2, about 
_ 4 in, long, pedunculate (i.e. tapering below into a sort of stalk), 
