Duvalia, | ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). 1031 
The stems as figured by Jacquin are very abnormal and entirely due to some 
condition of cultivation, being excessively ‘‘drawn up;” usually when grown 
under glass they are about #-14 in. long, but some years I have had them grow to 
a length of 3 in. or perhaps more; if grown in the open air they do not attain 
such a length. I am indebted to Mr. Berger for a portion of his type of 
D. propinqua, which I find is identical with this species. 
9. D. hirtella (Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 1, 276) ; stems subglobose 
to oblong, usually 3-2 (sometimes up to 3) in. long, 4-3 in. thick, 
obtusely 4—5- (rarely 6-) angled, tuberculate-toothed, glabrous, dull 
green or tinged or mottled with purple ; flowers 1—5 together at the 
middle or upper part of the young stems, progressively developed ; 
pedicels }—-1 in. long, glabrous; sepals 14-2 lin. long, lanceolate, 
acuminate, glabrous ; corolla 3-1} in, in diam., entirely dark chocolate 
or almost blackish ; lobes 4-5} lin. long, very spreading, lanceolate, 
acute, closely replicate quite to the base into vertical plates 14—2 lin. 
deep at the base, glabrous, ciliate on the basal }—} of their length 
with simple hairs }—? lin. long; annulus 34-4 lin. in diam. and 
about # lin. high, pentagonal, pubescent all over the top of the rim 
with purple hairs }—} lin. long ; outer corona about 24 lin. in diam., 
obtusely pentagonal or nearly circular, dull brownish-red ; inner 
corona-lobes dull yellow ; follicles 34-6 in. long, slightly diverging, 
narrowly fusiform, acute, smooth, streaked with purple-brown. 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 122; N.E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. under t. 1925 ; 
K. Schum. in Engl. und Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 277 ; Schlechter in 
Journ. Bot. 1898, 476. Stapelia hirtella, Jacq. Stap. t. 10; Willd. 
Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 285; Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 26, and Suppl. 9 ; 
Poir. Encycl. Suppl. v. 232 ; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 26 ; Spreng. Syst. 
Veg. i. 837, eacl. syn. ; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 257 ; Dietr. Syn. 
Pl. ii. 884, excl. syn. ; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 662, 663. S. ceespi- 
tosa, DC. Pl. Grass. t. 148, not of Masson. S. ceespitosa, var. hirtella, 
Loud. Encycl. Pl. 202. 8. cymosa (“ Hofg.” in Berlin Herb. !) Hort. 
ex Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 49, and G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 117. 8. reeli- 
nata, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1397, not of Masson. 
Var. 8, obscura (N. E. Br.); corolla-lobes ciliate with simple or ‘simple and 
very slightly clavate fixed or subvibratile hairs intermingled, varying in different 
specimens from }-1 lin. long ; annulus 34-44 lin. in diam., 3-14 lin. high, varying 
from glabrous to puberulous on the rim with minute hairs much shorter than 
those on the type, often marked around the margin of the outer corona with a 
speckling or ring of dull ochre ; otherwise as in the type. 
Var. y, minor (N. E. Br.) ; corolla-lobes 34 lin, long, ciliate with simple and 
fixed or very slightly vibratile clavate hairs intermixed. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, cultivated specimens! Var. B, cultivated 
specimens ! : : 
Coast Reaion: Ladismith Div. ; without precise locality, Pillans, 665! also 
var. B, Pillans, 638 ! 
Cenrrat Region: Laingsburg Div. ; north-western slopes of the Klein Zwart 
Berg, at Witte Poort, Pillans, 646! Prince Albert Div.; near Prince Albert, 
Marloth, 4585! Var, 6: Laingsburg Div, ; near Matjesfontein, Pillans, 13! 81! 
641! MacOwan (cultivated specimen)! along the main road from Laingsburg to 
___ Ladismith near Witte Poort, Pillans, 673! 674! near Nuy, Pillans, 665! Var. y: 
_ Worcester Div. ; without precise locality, Pillans, 628! 0 
