Burkeane. | N. O. Asclepiadee. 
TAB. DCXXV. 
ScyTantuus Gorponi. Hook. 
Corolla margine intusque glaberrima. 
Stapelia Gordoni. Mass. Stap. t. 40. 
Has. South Africa. Great Namaqua, near the Orange River. 
Colonel Gordon, Burke. 
The generic character, and some remarks relating to another 
species of this genus, will be found at our Tass. pcv, DCVI. 
The present is the original species, first detected by Colonel 
Gordon, and only known to the public through the figure given 
of it in Masson’s “Stapelie,” in 17 96, from a drawing made by 
its discoverer. So strange a form of Stapelia did not receive the 
credit it deserved from the cultivators of this singular group of 
plants ; and by many it was considered an exaggerated, if not a 
fictitious representation. Mr. Burke’s recent discovery of it again, 
has only proved the correctness of Colonel Gordon’s represen- 
tation; and living plants are now in the possession of the Right 
Hon. the Earl of Derby, at his seat of Knowsley, Lancashire. 
The present is much smaller in every part than the Scytanthus 
Burkei, and has the corolla quite glabrous. 
