PuaTeE 1908. 
STAPELIA NAMAQUEWNSIS, N. H. Br. 
ASCLEPIADACESZ. Tribe STAPELIER, 
8. namaquensis, N. HB. Brown in Gard. Ohron. 1882, vol. 18, p. 648, 
, N. EB. Br. 
eluding var. minor 
Has. Namaqualand, Barkly (Nos. 6, 64, and 64 bis). 
Var. ciliolata, N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1882, vol. 18, p. 648. 
4 Has. Namaqualand. Barkly (No. 38). 
This species and its varieties are well distinguished from all other 
wn species by the very thick solid-looking annulus, the margin of 
which is so strongly revolute as to be nearly circular in cross section, 
3 ‘ 
r a very small-flowered form of that plant, but no 
Spe n accompanied the oe = rawing, which is not sufficiently accurate 
to Buessbe from.—N. E. Bro 
A.—S. wamaquensis, type. Fig. 7. Corona. 8. Segment - inner corona, with 
anther. 9. Pollinia. B.—Var. crorata. C.—Var. TRIDENTA 1. Section through 
annulus. 2. Papillate surface of corolla, 3. Hairs from seal the corona. 4. ry 
and 5. upper side of a segment of the outer corona. 6. Segment: of inner corona, 
anther. Figures 2 to 8 ret 
