Puate 1911. 
STAPELIA VILLOSA, N. E. Br. 
ASCLEPIADACES. Tribe STAPELIES. 
§. villosa, NV. H. Br. (n. sp); ramis iis §. hirsute similibus ; 
(nm. sp ) 
alabastris globosis, sub apice sacculis 5 instructis; corolla 4-5 poll. 
Has. Namaqualand, Barkly (No. 28 bis). 
Stems similar to those of S. hirsuta, 5-8 in. high. Pedicels stout, 
F . Buds globose, shortly pointed, with five 
depressions below the point. Corolla 4—5 in. in diameter, with re- 
flexed or revolute, ovate-lanceolate lobes, ciliate with long purple hairs, 
the disk and base of the lobes densely covered with long, soft, purple 
hairs ; the back is pubescent, and the face transversely wrinkled on 
entirely of a blackish-brown.’ 
Allied to S. pulvinata, but the corolla-lobes are not so broad in pro- 
portion to their length, and not gibbous near their tips like those of 
8. pulvinata ; the cushion of hairs on the disk is not so thick, nor thé 
disk so broad; the onter coronal segments are not so narrow and less 
concave, the inner coronal segments are not so stout, and their dorsal 
wing is not adnate to so great an extent.— N. E. Brown 
Fig. 1. Corona. 2. Segment of outer corona. 3. Pollinia. 4. Bud. Figureslto3 — 
enlarged. 
8. pulvinata, Masson, Stap. p. 13, t: 13 (1796); Bot. Mag. t. 1240; 
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 206; Reichenb. Fl. Exot. vol. 5, p. 11, t. 303. 
Hap. Kamiesberg, Little Namaqualand, Barkly (No. 28).—N. E. 
Brown. 
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