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on the plant about a month. It was introduced from Brazil 
about 1838. 
Fig. 105 (for which we are indebted to the Editor of 
the Garden”); Botanical Register, 1838, t. 4o. 
P. stapelioides—A tufted, compact little plant, with 
dusky-coloured flowers. The pseudo-bulbs are ovate, four- 
angled, less than rin. long, bearing one or two lanceolate, 
glaucous-green, striated leaves 3in. to gin. long, and her- 
baceous in texture. The scape springs from the base of 
the matured pseudo-bulb, and is decumbent, r4in. long, 
and usually one-flowered; each flower is 14in. across; 
the sepals and petals are ovate, spreading, greenish 
yellow, with transverse, purple-brown bands, as in Stapelia 
bufonia (whence the specific name). The three-lobed lip 
is black-purple on the ovate central lobe, paler towards 
the margin, and streaked the same as the petals; the two 
horn-like side lobes are also coloured like the petals, and 
the column is citron-yellow. A native of the Organ 
Mountains of Brazil; introduced in 1830. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 3877 (as Maxzllaria stapeltordes). 
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