756 
STAPELIA hirsuta; var. atra. 
Dark-flowered hairy Stapelia. 
= 
a 
PENTANDRIA DJ GYNId. 
Nat. ord. ASCLEPIADEX. Brown in Wern. trans. 1. 12. Sect. I. Pol- 
‘3 linis massz ecereacee leves. * 
| STAPELIA. Supra fol. 755. 
* Sect..I. Corona exterior pentaphylla, foliolis indivisis. Brown. 
8. hirsuta, corollis planis ciliatis, disco in facie hirsutis, ceeterum glabris et 
_ transyersé rugosis; rostris subulatis acutis, dorso per maximam longitu- 
dinem excurrentibus in alam latam acutam rostroque paulo breviorem. 
Jac. Stap. cult, t.15.—var. atra ib. t. 16. 
Asclepias africana aizoides flore pulchro fimbriato. — 
Bradl. succ. 3. 5. t. 23. ie 
S. hirsuta. Zinn. syst. 260. Mill. ic. 7 
Thunb. prod. 46. Willd. sp. pl. 
1.278. Haw. synops, succ. 19. 
6.17. Link en. ber. 254, 
portunity at the time of describing it. 
J.L. 
