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Stapelia veriegata
Stapelia variegata. Variegated Stapelia
Class and Order
Pentandria Digynia
Generic Character
Contorta. Nectarium duplici stellula tegente genitalia
Specific Character and Synonyms
STAPELIA variegata denticulis ramorum patentibus. Lin. Syst.
Vegetab. p. 260. Sp. Pl. p. 316.
ASCLEPIAS aizoides africana. Bradl. suc. 3. p. 3. t. 22.
This very singular plant is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, where
it grows and flourishes on the rocks with the Stapelia hirsuta.
If these plants be kept in a very moderate stove in winter, and in
summer placed in an airy glass-case where they may enjoy much free
air, but screened from wet and cold, they will thrive and flower
very well; for although they will live in the open air in summer,
and may be kept through the winter in a good green-house; yet these
plants will not flower so well as those managed in the other way.
They must have little water given them, especially in winter.
It is very seldom that the variegata produces seed-vessels in this
country; Miller observes, in upwards of forty years that he
cultivated it, he never saw it produce its pods but three times, and
then on such plants only as were plunged into the tan-bed in the
stove.
This plant may be propagated without seeds, as it grows fast enough
from slips; treatment the same as that of the Creeping Cereus, which
see.
It takes its name of Stapelia from Stapel, a Dutchman, author of
some botanical works, particularly a Description of Theophrastus's
plants.
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