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peduncles joined at base and forming a common stalk, 4-6 cm. long, 
curving upwards. Inner surface of corolla coarsely rugose, nearly white, 
spotted all over with purple brown, the spots around the corona smaller 
than the rest. 
Sepals ovate and acuminate ; the corolla 25 mm. in diam., with a very 
shallow cup, which slightly exceeds the sepals, the tubular portion 8 mm. 
in diam., the segments 10-11 mm. long and 5 mm. wide at their base, 
subacute, finally recurved. 
Outer corona lobes linear, 2 mm. long and 1-|- mm. broad, recurved 
spreading, appressed to the corolla, not tapering, convexly curved on the 
upper side, the apex deeply notched, entirely dark brown ; inner corona 
lobes 4-5 mm. high, about 4 times as long as the anthers, subulate filiform, 
acute, connivent erect and more or less spreading at the tips, with a long 
dorsal acute horn from its base, entirely brown, or whitish at the tips. 
The plant would come near St. jucunda, N. E. Br. (Flor. Cap., vol. v., 1, 
p. 975), but in that species the petals are shorter in proportion and the 
inner corona lobes are merely gibbous at base, not horned. 
Gathered near Maltahoehe in Great Namaqualand ; flowering in my 
garden at Capetown in February, 1912. Marloth, No. 5110. 
On one of my plants, among a collection of eight, the ground colour of 
the corolla was not pure white, but creamy. 
Stapelia cincta, spec. nov. 
Planta humilior, e radice ramosa. Caules brevissimi, ovato-acuminati, 
4-angulares, angulis obtusis, denticulatis. Flores basales, solitarii, pedun- 
culati, radiati. Corollas tubus hemisphsericus ; segmenta ovato-acuminata, 
tubo paullo longiora, non ciliata, ochracea, rugosa, dense brunneo-macu- 
lata, margine brunneo cincta. Coronse exterioris segmenta lanceolato- 
acuminata, brunnea ; coronas interioris segmenta linearia, erecta, apice 
obtuso paullo recurvata. 
A small plant, of the size of Duvalia reclinata. The stems nearly 
quadratic, 30-40 mm. high and 16-20 mm. in diam. ; the sides almost flat, 
the teeth of the margin ^ mm. long. Calyx glabrous, the segments 
broadly ovate, suddenly contracted into a point, their length about ^ of 
that of the corolla tube. Diam. of flower 24-26 mm., the segments 
10 mm. long and 5-6 mm. broad at their base, mottled, margined with a 
dark maroon band, 1-5-2 mm. broad. Outer corona lobes 2 mm., narrow 
lanceolate, the inner lobes very narrow below, fihform above, shghtly 
longer than the outer lobes, slightly recurved, knobbed ; both coronas 
dark maroon. 
In the key of the Flora Capensis this species would have to be grouped 
with St. stricta, Sims (No. 25, p. 927), differing from it by its smaller 
