ASCLEPIADE.E. IV. STAPELIA. V. GOXOSTEMON. VI. PODANTHES. 



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Cordate Stapelia. Fl.Ju. Aug. Clt. 1805. Shrub \ to \ foot. 



31 S. CANE'SCENS (Hort. ex Haw. syn. p. 26. no. 29.) ^ . S. 

 Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Nothing is known further 

 of the species. 



Canescent Stapelia. Fl. Ju. Aug. Clt. 1795. Shrub. 



32 S. opHiu'NcrLA(Hort. ex Haw. syn. p. 27. no. 31.) I?. 

 S. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Nothing but the name 

 is known of this species. 



Small-serpent Stapelia. Fl. Ju. Aug. Clt. 1805. Shrub proc. 



33 S. CAUDA'TA (Thunb. prod. 1. p. 46. fl. cap. 2. p. 171.) 

 stem hairy, leafy ; leaves oblong-linear, falcate ; flowers axillary, 

 pedicellate, solitary, drooping : segments of the limb linear. 



> . S. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Leaves sessile. 

 Pedicels much shorter than the corolla. Corolla flat, purple, 

 scaly inside. Perhaps a species of Ceropegia or Brachystflma. 

 failed Stapelia. Shrub | foot. 



34 S. QVADRA'XGCLA (Forsk. descr. p. 52. t. 6.) stem tetra- 

 gonal ; branches divaricate, floriferous at the apex : furnished 

 with truncate teeth ; flowers small, crowded, sessile ; corolla 

 5-cleft. >j . S. Native of Arabia Felix. Flowers greenish yellow. 

 Calvx 5-toothed, permanent. Juice not milky, but aqueous. 

 Forsk. cat. p. 108. no. 194. has also S. quadrdngula ramosa, 

 no. 194, besides S. quadrdngula, no. 190. Sides of stem half 

 an inch wide. 



Quadrangular-stemmeA Stapelia. Shrub 1| foot. 



35 S. MULTA'NGULA (Forsk. cat. no. 192.) stem branched, 

 creeping, with 6-9 angles, and as many furrows ; angles toothed; 

 follicles subulate. ^ . S. Native of Arabia Felix. Sak el 

 Ghorob. Forsk. descr. p. 52. Anonymos, Poir. ency. 7. p. 391. 

 The Arabians affirm, that this plant, after being apparently quite 

 dead, by drying for a long time, if it is allowed to come in con- 

 tact with moist earth, it will again revive. Forsk. desc. p. 52. 



3fany-angled Stapelia. Shrub. 



36 S. CLAVA TA (Willd. spec. 1. p. 1295.) stem simple, thick, 

 clavate, reticulately and obsoletely warted, bearing the fruit at 

 the apex. ^ . S. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, in sandy 

 fields, beyond Kopperberg. Stapelia, Patters, trav. p. 57. t. 8. 

 only the fruit. 



CYarafe-stemmed Stapelia. Shrub. 



N.B. There is a species of Stapelia, which was collected at 

 the Cape of Good Hope, on the banks of the Kaigaviel, near 

 Roode Gebroken Klip, by Lichtenstein, which Willd. has called, 

 in his enum. suppl. p. 14, brectrostris, but without giving any 

 character of the plant. In the Neweste best, des Gart zu 

 Belvidere, the following names occur, but without any diag- 

 nosis of either 1. S. Buffbniana, 2. S. btfolia, 3. S. cymbsa, 

 4. S. tridentata, 5. S. virgata, and 6. S. verticillata ; but these 

 names are very likely synonymous with some of those described 

 above. There are several undescribed species preserved in 

 spirits of wine in the Banksian museum. What is S. dentata, 

 Forsk. cat. 192? and what is S. papillbsa of Tabl. de 1'ecole, 

 ann. 1S15. p. 92 ? 



Cult. Singular succulent, grotesque plants ; bearing remarkable 

 and singularly beautiful, star-like flowers, usually with a very dis- 

 agreeable smell. The soil best suited for them is a mixture of 

 loam, sand, and lime or brick rubbish ; for, if grown in a richer 

 soil, they become more luxuriant, and bear larger flowers ; 

 but in such a soil they are more apt to rot, if thev chance to get a 

 little too much water supplied them. They require very little 

 water, except when in blossom ; and in the winter, the less 

 given to them the better. They are readily increased by cut- 

 tings, which should be allowed to dry for at least a week or 

 fortnight after they are taken off from the mother plant, before 

 they are set ; after which they may be planted in separate pots, 

 when they will almost immediately strike root ; for if planted when 

 first taken off, and full of juice, they have every chance to rot. 



V. GONOSTE'MON (from yuvta, gonia, an angle ; and 

 oTTj/iii))', stemon, a stamen.) Haw. syn. p. 27. Stapelia species 

 of authors. 



LIN. SYST. Pentdndria, Digynia. Corolla rotate, 5-cleft. Li- 

 gulae or segments of the exterior corona distinct, rufous, oblong, 

 cuneated and recurved at the apex, channel-formed : those of 

 the inner corona rectangularly incurved, unciform or pedifonn, 

 short, rufous, length of the ligulae, and adnate to them ; bear- 

 ing at the base large, didymous, yellow anthers. Between the 

 corona and the angles of the style, there are 3 stigmas, 2 of 

 which are anther-formed, the other black and dot-formed ; and 

 from this dot there runs down an oblong, very minute, bifid, 

 yellow ligulae. Succulent shrubs, with the habit of Stapelia ; 

 but the branches are more slender and divaricate. Flowers 

 fascicled. Pedicels length of the corolline segments. 



1 G. DIVARICA'TA (Haw. syn. p. 27.) branches numerous, te- 

 tragonal, glabrous, gradually attenuated : with small, erect teeth ; 

 corolla quite glabrous ; segments lanceolate, spreading, with 

 revolute ciliated edges. ^ S. Native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. Stapelia divaricata, Mass. stap. p. 1 7. t. 22. Sims, bot. 

 mag. 1007. Branches floriferous in the middle, or at the base. 

 Pedicels twin or tern. Segments of exterior corona roundish, 

 obtuse, mucronate. Corolla shining, greenish brown outside, 

 and flesh-coloured inside, tipped with green. Corona orange- 

 coloured. 



.Dicaricflte-branched Gonostemon. Fl. Ju. Nov. Clt. 1793. 

 Shrub 5 foot. 



2 G. PA'LLIDA ; branches erect, short, tetragonal, glabrous : 

 with short, deciduous teeth ; corolla glabrous ; segments acute, 

 ciliated ; pedicels aggregate, rising above the base of the 

 branches ; segments of outer corona spreading, in the figure 

 sub-tridentate ; of the interior one erect and bluntish. Tj . S. 

 Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Stapelia pallida, Wendl. 

 coll. 2. p. 39. t. 51. Corolla pale yellow, verging to flesh- 

 coloured ; the segments tipped with greenish yellow. Corona 

 yellow. 



Po/e-yellow Gonostemon. Fl. July, Sept. Clt. 1818. Shrub 

 | foot. 



3 G. STRICTA (Haw. suppl. pi. succ. p. 12.) corollas naked, 

 flat ; branches erect. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 

 Stapelia stricta, Sims, bot. mag. 2037. Branches slenderer than 

 in the preceding. 



Straight Gonostemon. F). Ju. Nov. Clt. 1814. Shrub 

 foot. 



Cult. For culture and propagation see Stapelia-, above. 



VI. PODA'NTHES (from a-ouc T&C, pa** podos, a foot; 

 and av^oc, anthos, a flower ; in allusion to the flowers being on 

 long pedicels.) Haw. syn. p. 32. Stapelia species of authors. 



Lis. SYST. Pentdndria, Monogy'nia. Corolla 5-cleft, wrinkled; 

 with a broad, campanulate bottom, girded by a tumid orbicle. 

 Ligulae, or segments of the exterior corona, combined to the 

 middle, channel-formed, rhomboid, deeply emarginated, or cu- 

 neately 2-lobed ; those of the inner corona simple, short, form 

 of a reversed foot, alternating with the ligulae, incurvedly and 

 closely adpressed to the style ; the rest as in Stapilia. Habit of 

 Stapelia ; but the branches are much more slender, eflusely de- 

 cumbent and weak, rooting at the base, obsoletely 4-5-angled ; 

 with much larger, deltoid-acuminated, ascending, thick teeth, 

 but terminated by a less manifest leaf. 



1 P. PU'LCHRA (Haw. syn. p. 32.) weak and much branched ; 

 flowers twin, semi-quinquefid, corrugated, with a minutely pilose 

 bottom, tj . S. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Stapelia 

 verrucosa, Hort. but not of Mass. Flowers on long, bent 

 pedicels. Segments of corolla deltoid acuminated, green out- 

 side, and sulphur-coloured inside, warted ; warts numerous, 



