STAPELIA. 



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Carrion Plants, they would be much more popular than at present. As it is, no collection 

 of succulents can be said to be complete without the addition of a few Stapelias. All are 

 natives of South Africa. Propagated by cuttings of stems, and may be grown success- 



Among those worthy of cultivation 

 flowers large, purple, with yellowish 



fully on sunny shelves in an ordinary greenhouse, 

 are : — S. asterias. — Many-branched, erect, toothed 

 stripes ; May to November. S. 

 Curtisi. — Branches tetragonal, 

 with slightly deflexed teeth ; 

 flowers large, five clefted, sulphur 

 colour, with transverse spots of 

 blood colour. 8. gigantea. — 

 Stems stout and creeping, branches 

 downy and erect ; flowers extra 



meter, pale yellowish, covered 

 with irregular brownish red lines, 

 wrinkled and hairy ; a fine 

 species. S. grandiflora. — Branches 

 quadrangular and downy ; flowers - 

 large and rather flat, purple, 

 ciliated with grey hairs, and 

 striped with white ; September to 

 December. S. hirsuta. — Branches 

 erect, dingy green, and floriferous 

 at the base. Plowers yellowish, 

 with transverse violet stripes, 

 ciliated with hairs ; July and 

 August. S. patula. — Flowers 

 orange ; July (Fig. 125). S. 

 revoluta. — Branches tetragonal, 

 erect, denticulated; flowers red, with whitish blotches, smooth and fleshy ; July. 



Other Succulents. — A few to be met with in large collections are : — Bryophyllums 

 calycinum and pinnatum, Bulbine frutescens, Greenovia aurea, Othonna carnosa, 

 Pachyphiton bracteosum, Petrophyes muralis with Eocheas falcata, longifolia, odorata, 

 and perfoliata. 



Fig. 125. Stapelia patula. 



