INDEX TO VOLUME IV. |
A MAGAZINE CONTAINING HAND-COLOURED FIGURES WITH DESCRIPTIONS
OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO SOUTH AFRICA.
EDITED BY
I. B. POLE EVANS, C.M.G., M.A., D.Sc., F.L.S.,
Chief, Division of Botany and Plant Pathology, Department of Agriculture, Pretoria;
and Director of the Botanical Survey of the Union of South Africa.
VOL. IV.
LONDON:
L. REEVE & CO., Ltd.,
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SOUTH AFRICA:
THE SPECIALITY PRESS OF SOUTH AFRICA, Ltd.
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1924
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TO
PERCIVAL ROSS FRAMES, ESQUIRE, C.M.G.
LOVER, COLLECTOR, AND MOST SUCCESSFUL CULTIVATOR OF HIS COUNTRY’SSUCCULENT PLANTS, THIS VOLUME OF “THE FLOWERING PLANTS OF SOUTHAFRICA” IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED IN RECOGNITION OF HELP MOSTGENEROUSLY GIVEN.
Division of Botany, Pretoria.
October, 1924.
STAPELIA FLAVOPURPUREA.
Cape Province.
Asclepiadaceae. Tribe Stapelieae.
Stapelia, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 784.
Stapelia flavopurpurea, Marloth in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. vol. 18, p. 48,
t. 5, fig. 1; Fl. Cap. vol. v. sect. i, p. 969.
Representatives of this characteristic South African genus have beenfigured on Plates 26 and 72, and we have pleasure in illustrating forthe first time in colour a species which is unique among the species ofStapelia.