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BRACHYSTELMA. tuberosum. 
‘Cape Brachystelma. 
e ' 
PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ASCLEPIADER. Brown in Wern. trans. Edin. 1.12. prod. 
1. 458. 
BRACHYSTELMA. Corolla campanulata, sinubus angulatis. Co- 
lumna inclusa. Corona mouophylia, quinquefida: lobis antheris oppositis, 
dorso simplicibus. Anthere absque membrana apiculari. Masse pollinis 
erect, basi insert. Brown in Curtis’s magaz. 2343. 
Brachystelma tuberosum. Brown I. c. 
Stapelia tuberosa. Meerb. ic. t. 54. fig. 1. 
‘Tuber rotundum. Caulis suffruticens, ramosus; rami teretes, villost. 
Folia opposita, membranacea, lineari-lanceolata, concava, margine et ca- 
rind ciliatis. Flores semiverticillato-aggregati in quoque fasciculo 3-4 
magnitudine fere STAPELI reclinate, cernut, pedunculatt. Calyx 5-fidus, 
acutus, corolle tubo brevior, ut et pedunculus breve glanduloseqgue pubescens. 
Corolla eautds virescens, rubro-punctata; iniis niyro-purpurea, disco flavo 
transverse interrupteque lineato ; tubo campanulato; limbo quinquepartito, 
laciniarum margine revoluto, basi fimbriata. Corona 5-fida; lobulis connt- 
ventibus, triangularibus. Flores uti STAPELIE species fere cuncto odore 
JSetent nauseabundo, 
. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Drawn at Mr. 
Colvill’s Nursery. ; 
A new asclepiadeous genus from the pen of the able 
reformer of that natural order. Every one will be struck 
by the primd facie resemblance it bears to SraPEta. 
_ “ Corolla campanulate, with angular sinuses. Column 
inclosed. Crown I-leaved, 5-cleft: lobes opposite to the 
anthers, unappendaged at the back. Anthers without the 
ecmppanus apex. Pollen masses upright, inserted by their 
ase. : 
“ Tuber round. Stem subshrubby, branching; branches 
round, villous. Leaves opposite, membranous, linearly lan- 
ceolate, concave, ciliate at the edge and keel. lowers 
partly collected in whorls with three or four flowers in each 
‘branch nearly of the size of those of Srapenia reclinata, 
Cernuous, peduncled. Calyx 5-cleft, pointed, shorter than 
the tube of the corolla, and like the peduncle shortly and 
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