Star flower, Orbea variegata. Western Cape, South Africa. Stapelia variegata. Stapelia panachee. Handcoloured steel engraving by Felicie Fournier after an illustration by Louis Joseph Edouard Maubert from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Universal Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1849.

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