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6 mm. diametro, glaber, subpurpureus ; obi stellatim patentes, 
1°6-1°9 cm. longi, 7 mm. lati, quum explanati lanceolati, acuti, convexi, 
marginibus valde revolutis, intra transversim rugosi, basi glabri, 
cetera puberuli, subnigri. Coronae exterioris lobi minuti, brevissimi, 
0°5 mm. longi, 1°5 mm. lati, truncati. Coronae interioris lobi lineares, 
obtusi, antheris incumbentes et eas vix excedentes, sordide purpurei. 
—S. kwebensis var. longipedicellata, Berger, Stapelicen und Kleinien, 
p. 318, fig. 66. 
TropicaAL Arrica. German South West Africa, described 
1462. Stapelia Pearsonii, V. £. Brown [ Asclepiadaceae-Stapelieae] ; 
affinis S. olivaceae, N. EK. Br., sed pedicellis triplo vel quadruplo 
longioribus et corolla eciliata subtiliter rugosa facile distinguitur. 
Caules erecti, 4-8 cm. longi, 0°6—-1°2 em. crassi, obtuse 4-angulati, 
lateribus planis vel leviter concavis, minute puberuli, sordide 
virides vel cinereo-virides, purpureo-brunneo-marmorati; anguli 
rotundati, haud compressi, vix vel haud dentati. Folia rudi- 
mentaria, 0°75-1 mm. longa, deltoidea, acuta, erecta.  Pedicelli 
longa, anguste deltoideo-lanceolata, acuta, minute puberula. Corolla 
3°5 cm. diametro, extra minute puberula, sordide virescens, lobis 
marginibus recurvis eciliatis. Coronae erterioris lobi 4 m 
: ron 
bicornuti, fusco-purpurei; cornua filiformia, exteriora 2°5: mm. 
longa, recurva, interiora 4 mm. longa, basi conniventia, apicibus 
recurva. 
Sours Arrica. Great Namaqualand; on the Great Karasberg 
range, among rocks above the camel-path between Narudas Sud and 
Krai Kluft, 1450-1500 m., Pearson 8539. 
is species, S. olivacea, N. E. Br., and S. similis, N. E. Br., so 
closely resemble one another in their stems and in habit, that when 
out of flower they are very difficult to discriminate, yet the flowers 
of all three are quite different. 
2. 
succulentus, spinosus. Caules vel rami (spinis exclusis) 
rassl, ides vel cinereo- 
