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With dark purple and yellow. Calyx five-cleft to the bot¬ 
tom : divisions lanceolate. Corolla: tube scarcely any: 
border flat. Follicles erect, as thick as a goose quill, four 
or five inches long.—This plant is not very common in the 
East Indies, of which it is a native. 
32. Stapelia quadrangiila.—Stem four-cornered; branches 
divaricating, flowering at the top; teeth truncate; flowers 
sessile.—Native of Arabia Felix. 
33. Stapeliaincarnata, or flesh-coloured stapelia.—Branches 
four-cornered, stiff, flowering at the top on the outside of the 
teeth; peduncles shorter than the corolla ; the segments of 
which are lanceolate and acute.—-Native of southern Africa, 
in dry sandy fields. 
34. Stapelia punctata, or dotted stapelia.—Branches de¬ 
cumbent, oblong, somewhat four-cornered, flowering in the 
middle; peduncles twice as long as the corolla, which is 
bell-shaped, with the segments spreading, lanceolate, acute. 
—Native of southern Africa, in Namaqua Lands. 
35. Stapelia geminata. — Branches decumbent, round, 
flowering at the top; peduncles geminate, lenglh of the 
corolla; the segments of which are lanceolate, rolled back 
at the edge.—Native of southern Africa, in hot places, under 
shrubs. 
36. Stapelia decora. — Branches oblong, decumbent, 
round, obscurely four-cornered, flowering at the base ; pe¬ 
duncles longer than the flower; bottom of the corolla five- 
cornered ; segments ovate-lanceolate, rolled back at the edge. 
—Native of southern Africa. 
37. Stapelia pulchella.—Branches four-cornered, decum¬ 
bent, flowering above the base; peduncles many-flowered ; 
bottom of the corolla circular; segments ovate, acute.— 
Native of southern Africa. 
38. Stapelia vetula.-—Branches four-cornered, erect, flow¬ 
ering at the base; peduncles shorter than the corolla, which 
is smooth; with the segments ovate, acuminate, three- 
nerved above.—Native of southern Africa, on mountains. 
39. Stapelia verrucosa.—Branches ascending, four-cor¬ 
nered, flowering at the base; peduncles longer than the 
corolla, which is warted; with the segmentsovate and acute, 
and the bottom five-cornered and rugged.—Native of southern 
Africa, in dry places: flowering in September and October. 
40. Stapelia irrorata.—Branches from erect spreading, 
four-cornered, flowering at the base ; peduncles longer than 
the corolla, which is wrinkled, with ovate acuminate seg¬ 
ments.—Native of southern Africa, in dry places: flowering 
in September and October. 
41. Stapelia mixta.—Branches four-cornered, ascending, 
flowering at the base: peduncles length of the corolla, 
which is wrinkled, with a circular raised papillose bottom, 
and ovate acuminate segments.—Native of southern Africa. 
42. Stapelia variegata, or variegated stapelia.—Branches 
four-cornered, ascending, flowering at the base; peduncles 
longer than the corolla, which is wrinkled, with a circular 
concave wrinkled bottom, and ovate acute segments.—Native 
of southern Africa, on rocks, into the crevices of which it 
strikes the fibres of its roots. 
III.—Corolla ten-toothed. 
43. Stapelia campanulata, or bell-shaped stapelia.— 
Branches erect, four-cornered, flowering at the base; pedun¬ 
cles three-flowered; segments of the corolla larger, lan¬ 
ceolate, with a bell-shaped bottom.—Native of southern 
Africa. 
44. Stapelia barbata.—Branches mostly four-cornered, 
erect, flowering at the base; peduncles shorter than the 
corolla, which is bell-haped, with the segments larger, lan¬ 
ceolate, acuminate, rugged, clubbed and bearded.—Native of 
southern Africa. 
45. Stapelia venusta.—Stem four or five-cornered, erect, 
branched at top ; branches flowering at the base ; peduncles 
longer than the corolla, bent down; corolla smooth; seg¬ 
ments larger, ovate-acuminate, bottom concave, surrounded 
by an elevated ring.—Native of southern Africa, in Karro. 
46. Stapelia guttata.—Branches somewhat spreading and 
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four-cornered, flowering at the base; peduncles length of 
the corolla; the segments of which are larger, ovate, acute, 
the bottom concave, rugged, surrounded by an elevated 
ring.—Native of southern Africa. 
47. Stapelia humilis.—-Branches four-cornered, spreading, 
flowering at the base; peduncles solitary, shorter than the 
corolla; the segments of which are larger, lanceolate, acute. 
—Native of southern Africa. 
48. Stapelia reticulata, or netted stapelia.—Branches five- 
cornered, spreading, flowering at the base; peduncle in pairs, 
shorter than the corolla; the segments of which are larger, 
ovate, acute, the bottom bearded, surrounded by an elevated 
ring.—Native of southern Africa, in hollows of rocks, 
towards Olifant’s River: flowering in spring and autumn. 
IV.—Uncertain ; the flowers being not yet known. 
49. Stapelia clavata, or club-shaped stapelia.—Stem sim¬ 
ple, thick, club-shaped, nettedly and obscurely warted, 
fruiting at the top.—Native of southern Africa, in sandy fields 
beyond Kopper-berg. 
Propagation and Culture. —They are propagated here 
very easily during the summer months, by taking off any of 
the side branches, which, when planted, put out roots very 
freely. 
STAPELEY, a village of England, in Cheshire, near 
Nantwich. 
STAPENHILL, a parish of England, in Derbyshire; 1 
mile from Burton, from which it is divided by the river 
Trent. Population 447. 
STAPHISAGRIA. See Delphinium. 
STAPHORST, a large village of the Netherlands, in the 
province of Overyssel, with 2600 inhabitants; 10 miles 
north-north-east of Zwoll. 
STAPHYLE, a word used by the old Greek writers, some¬ 
times to express a grape, and sometimes an elongation of the 
uvula. 
STAPHYLEA [abbreviated by Linnaeus from Staphylo- 
dendrum. From crlacpvXvj, Gr., a raceme or bunch; that 
being the inflorescence of this shrub], in Botany, a genus of 
the class pentandria, order trygynia, natural order of trihi- 
latae rhamni (Juss.) —Generic Character. Calyx: perianth 
five-parted, concave, roundish, coloured, almost as big as 
the corolla. Corolla: petals five, oblong, erect, like the 
calyx. Nectary from the receptacle of the fructification, in 
the bottom of the flower, concave, pitcher-shaped. Sta¬ 
mina: filaments five, oblong, erect, length of the calyx. 
Anthers simple. Pistil: germ thickish, three-parted. Styles 
three, simple, much longer than the stamens. Stigmas ob¬ 
tuse, contiguous. Pericarp: capsules three, inflated, flaccid, 
united longitudinally by a suture, opening inwards by the 
acuminate apexes. Seeds two, bony, globular, with an ob¬ 
lique point and an orbicular excavation by the side of the 
apex. The ternary number of the pistil and pericarp, in 
Staphylea pinnata becomes binary.— Essential Character. 
Calyx five-parted. Petals five. Capsule inflated, connate. 
Seeds two, globular, with a wart. 
1. Staphylea occidentalis.—Leaves doubly-pinnate; cap¬ 
sules three-cornered ; seeds solitary; stem arboreous. Flowers 
white, odorous.—Native of Jamaica: floweriftg there in 
spring and autumn. 
2. Staphylea pinnata, or five-leaved bladder-nut.—Leaves 
pinnate; styles and capsules two. This has several shrubby 
stalks arising from the same root, and growing ten or twelve 
feet high, covered with a smooth bark, and dividing into 
several branches, which are soft and pithy. The flowers 
come out upon long slender pendulous peduncles from the 
axils of the stalks near their extremity, in oblong bunches. 
The petals are white, and expand in form of a rose.—Native 
of the south of Europe. 
3. Staphylea trifolia, or three-leaved bladder-nut.—Leaves 
ternate; styles and capsules three. This has a more sub¬ 
stantial stem than the preceding; the bark of the old branches 
and stalks is smooth, and of a gray colour; that of the 
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