Duwalia.| ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 1029 
developing successively ; pedicels 3-3 in. long, glabrous ; sepals 
1-1} lin. long, lanceolate, acute, glabrous ; corolla $—? in. in diam., 
dark chocolate ; lobes 24-3 lin. long, with the margins closely repli- 
cate at the apical half and reflexed-spreading at the basal part, 
ovate when flattened out, acuminate, ciliate for half of their length 
with soft fine simple purple hairs 4-1 lin. long, otherwise quite 
glabrous ; annulus about 2} lin. in diam., } lin. high, obtusely 
pentagonal, glabrous ; outer corona 14~2 lin. in diam., obtusely 
pentagonal, apparently dark reddish-brown; inner corona-lobes 
apparently reddish. 
CENTRAL ReEciIon : Aberdeen Div, ; near Aberdeen Road, Pillans, 35! Somerset 
Div. ; near Pearston, Pillans, 35! 
6. D. pubescens (N. E. Br.); stems decumbent, 4-2 in. long, 
3-3 in. thick, obtusely 4~5-angled, dull dark green ; angles with 
horizontal stout conical teeth 1-2 lin. long ; flowers 2-4, successively 
developed at the middle or upper part of the young stems ; pedicels 
4-4 in. long, about 1 lin. thick ; sepals 1-1} lin. long, ovate, very 
acute or acuminate ; corolla 3 to nearly 1 in. in diam., pubescent 
on the whole of the inner face, but usually more densely on the 
annulus than on the lobes, with short soft simple hairs }—} lin. long, 
dark chocolate ; lobes very spreading, with recurved tips, 3-4 lin. 
long, replicate to the base into vertical plates 1-14 lin. deep at the 
base, not ciliate ; annulus 34—4 lin. in diam., 1-14 lin. high, very 
obtusely or obscurely pentagonal, with vertical sides, and the sinuses 
between the lobes reflexed to the pedicel ; outer corona 24-2} lin. 
in diam., pentagonal, dull reddish-brown. 
Var. B, major (N. E. Br.); flowers from near the tips of the stems ; pedicels 
4-} in. long ; sepals 1 lin, long, lanceolate-attenuate ; corolla about 14 in. in 
diam. ; lobes 5-54 lin. long, replicate into vertical plates 1 lin. deep, thinly 
pubescent on the half, glabrous on the apical half ; otherwise as in the type. 
Western Recion: Little Namaqualand, Ayres in Herb. Pillans, 94! also 
cultivated specimen! Var. B: Little Namaqualand, Scully ! 
The type described from a living plant cultivated at Cambridge in 1881. 
7. D. cespitosa (Haw. Syn. Pl. Suce. 45); stems 2-11 in. long, 
5-7 lin. thick, ovoid or oblong, obtusely 4—5-angled, green ; angles 
tuberculate-dentate ; flowers 1-2 together from the middle or near 
the base of the young stems ; pedicels 4-5 lin. long, glabrous ; sepals 
about 1 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, glabrous ; corolla 3-3 in. in 
diam. ; lobes horizontally spreading, closely replicate to the base 
into vertical plates, about 3-34 lin. long and 1 lin. in depth, 
glabrous, ciliate on the basal half with very fine and rather long 
simple purple hairs, dark chocolate ; annulus 2 lin. in diam. with a 
microscopic puberulence, entirely dark chocolate, or according to 
Jacquin, with a green ring around the outer corona; outer corona 
. gee lin. in diam., pentagonal, ; inner corona-lobes yellowish. 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 121; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 476. 
Stapelia ceespitosa, Masson, Stap. 20, t. 29; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1282, 
