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CEROPEGIA africana. 
Cape Ceropegia. 
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PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AsCLEPIADRE. Brown in Wern. trans. edinb. 1.12. Id. 
prod. 1. 458; et à vol. 2, fol. 111. Div. I. ASCLEPIADER VERE. 
Masse pollinis 10, leves, per paria (diversis antheris pertinentia), affixze 
stigmatis corpusculis, sulco longitudinali bipartibilibus. Filamenta con- 
nata, extis sœpiùs appendiculata. 
CEROPEGIA. Asclepiadea. Cor. tubulosa, basi ventricosa, limbi 
laciniis ligularibus conniventibus: zstivatione valvata. Columna fructifi- 
cationis inclusa. Corona staminea 10-fida : laciniz 5 antheris distinctis op- 
sitze longiores cum 5 reliquis (indivisis bifidisve) alternantes. Masse pol- 
inis erectæ. Herb» glabra sapiüs volubiles, radice tuberosú. Umbelle 
interpetiolares, nunc pauciflore. Brown MSS. 
C. africana, pedunculis 2-3-floris, foliis ovato-lanceolatis carnosis, limbo 
corollæ barbato, coronæ laciniis longioribus aversis falcato-recurvis ; 
brevioribus indivisis. Brown MSS. 
Radix: tuber ratione herbe 3-6-uncialis magnum. Caulis simplex, 
sepiüs volubilis. Folia acuta, planiuscula, avenia, breve petiolata, divaricata 
apicibus subrecurvis, semuncialia. Spica rara è pedunculis alternis brevibus 
2-3-floris, pedicellis brevibus minuto bracteolatis. Flores erecti, inferiore 
precociore. Cal. 5-partitus, laciniis lineari-subulatis modicè tibus basi 
ventricosá tubi corolla ferè ter brevioribus. Corolla: tubus è basi obovato- 
globosá obsolet? pentagoná viridi cylindraceus, fance infundibuliformi striata; 
limbi lacinie lineares intüs marginii pilis coloratis acutis bar- 
bata, erecta apicibus ee dd levit coherentibus: limbus inexpansus 
prismatico-pentagonus fauce pentagoná angulis extantibus cum laciniis limbi 
alternantibus. Columna fructificationis basi ventricosá tubi inclusa. Corona 
apici tubi staminei brevis inserta monophylla decemloba : Lobi quinque. cum 
staminibus alternantes abbreviati 5 obtusi basi saccati: rn Krieg 
quasi interiores antheris oppositi aliquotiós longiores margiue interiori = 
cato-canaliculato exteriori in aciem attenuato. Anthere distintte ovate 
loculis lateralibus longitudinaliter dehiscentibus appendice apicis carnoso 
brevi acuto stigmate incumbente. Massæ pollinis i supra basin affixe 
subglobose. Stigma muticum. Brown MSS. 
A very curious unrecorded species, now first introduced 
from the Cape of Good Hope. The masterly description is 
by Mr. Brown, who has so far modified the character of 
the genus with respect to that defined by himself in his il- 
lustration of the natural order, in the Memoirs of the 
Wernerian Natural History Society, as to fit it for the re- 
