A NEW SPECIES OF STAPELIA FROM THE TRANSVAAL 
By Mrs. R. Pott-Leendertz, Botanist to the Transvaal Museum. 
(Plate XIII.) 
Stapelia gettleffii, Pott. Stems erect, decumbent at the base, 4-angled. 
8-10 in. high, 6-8 lin. square, with concave sides and toothed angles,, 
velvety pubescent, green ; teeth tipped with a rudimentary, incurved 
leaf 5-6 lin. long ; flowers 1-3 together near the base of the young stems, 
successively developed ; pedicels 3 in. long, 2| lin. thick, velvety pubescent, 
pendulous ; sepals 6 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, velvety puberulous ; 
corolla 6-6 1 in. diameter with the lobes extended, the back greenish- 
yellow, minutely puberulous, the inner surface transversely rugose, purple, 
yellowish tinted at the centre, marked with transverse yellowish lines 
from the base to the tip of the lobes, leaving the margin and extreme tip 
intact ; the flat disk 1 in. diameter ; lobes 2| in. long, I in. broad in the 
middle, lanceolate, acute, flat, slightly recurved ; disk and very base of 
the lobes densely covered with long, fine, downy, intermingled, light- 
purple hairs, the remaining part of the lobes puberulous, the margins 
ciliate with rather coarser whitish and light purple hairs of about 6 lin. 
long ; outer corona-lobes dark purple-brown, ascending spreading with 
recurved tips, 3 lin. long, deeply channelled down the face, tapering into a 
subulate point ; inner corona-lobes dark purple-brown, recurved spreading, 
6 iin. long with the dorsal wing 3 lin. long, adnate for the whole of its length 
to the inner horn and truncate and toothed at the top ; inner horn 
triquetrous, subulate, recurved, not hooked at the apex. 
Louis Trichardt, Zoutpansberg, G. F. G-ettleffi ; 9643 in Transvaal 
Museum Herbarium. 
This fine species of Stapelia was discovered by G. F. Gettleffi, Esq., 
at Louis Trichardt, and flowered at Pretoria in March, 1912. The descrip- 
tion and photo are taken from the living material. The new species is allied 
to Stapelia hirsuta L., and should be placed next to it in accordance with 
the arrangement of the species in the Flora Capensis. 
A New Record of Plant Species for the Transvaal Flora. 
“ Duvalia polita, N. E. Br.” 
D. polita, N. E. Br., family Asclepiadaceae, is given in the Flora. 
Capensis without locality or name of collector. Mr. Brown writes : — 
“ Described from a living plant. This now appears to be lost to cultiva- 
tion.” 
The plant was collected by me at Zeerust in January, 1912, and living 
specimens brought to Pretoria and sent to Kew. It flowered at Pretoria 
in April, 1912. 
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R. Pott. 
