Ceropegia. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). 439 
CoroJla-tube 1-14 in. long ; leaves 3-23 lin. broad, 
linear or linear-lanceolate. 
Corolla-lobes 10-11 lin. long. : : . 45. C. campanulata. 
Corolla-lobes 3-4 lin, long ; : : . 48. C. vignaldiana. 
Corolla-tube 3—% in. long. 
Corolla-lobes about 8 lin. long ; leaves 6-12 lin. 
broad. : : : = : . 46. C. filipendula. 
Corolla-lobes about 5 lin. long ; leaves 13-5 lin. 
broad. ; ‘ . : . . 47. C. abyssinica. 
Corolla-lobes less than 4 lin. long. 
Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, up to 1 in. 
broad . s : ‘ : E - 49. C. Steudneri. 
Leaves linear or linear-subulate, 3-3 lin. 
broid . 3 é : A ‘ . 50. C. humilis. 
1. C. pygmeea, Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxx. 265. 
Tuber 1—2 in. in diam., ovoid or subglobose, subtruncate at the base, 
buried 2—3 in. in the ground, emitting a single stem which branches at 
ground-level. Branches erect, 14-3 in. long, pubescent with minute 
curved hairs. Leaves erect or ascending, }-4 in. long, 1—5 lin. broad, 
from linear to oblanceolate or spathulate-obovate, acute or obtuse, 
pubescent with minute curved hairs chiefly along the midrib and 
margins ; the broader leaves gradually tapering from above the middle 
into a short petiole. Cymes or umbels subaxillary, 1—3-flowered, sessile 
or with thinly pubescent peduncles up to 2} lin. long; pedicels 5-7 lin. 
long, thinly pubescent. Sepals 14-21 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, 
pubescent. Corolla large, pubescent outside, glabrous within, purple- 
black when dried, somewhat resembling the flowers of an Aristolochia 
in form, the tube being abruptly bent at aright angle below the middle ; 
part below the bend 3-1 in. long, } in. in diam., ovoid-inflated ; part 
above the bend 1-1? in. long, 34—4 lin. in diam., tubular, slightly funnel- 
shaped at the mouth, which is truncate, with 5 deltoid acute teeth or 
lobes 1-1} lin. long, quite free, replicate, incurved. Outer corona 
1-1} lin. long, three times as long as the staminal-column, deeply cup- 
shaped, very shortly 5-toothed, sparsely covered with short purple 
hairs within; inner corona!-lobes } lin. long, linear-subulate, slightly 
gibbous at the base, incumbent on the backs of the anthers, and not 
exceeding them, adnate at their base to the bottom of the outer corona, 
glabrous. The entire corona of the same colour as the corolla in the dried 
state.—C. gymnopoda, Schlechter in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 450, 
Lower Guinea. German South West Africa: Amboland ; in sandy soil at 
Olukonda and between Olukonda and Uukuambi, Schinz, 147! Uukuambi, Rauta- 
nen, 81! 82! 
C. gymnopoda, Schlechter, was described from broad-le:ved specimens with very 
immature flowers; when fully developed the flowers are identical with those of 
C. pygmea, Linear and spathulate leaves sometimes occur on the same specimen. 
2. C. pumila, V. £. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 309. Tuber 
flattened, 14-2 in. in diam. Stems 2-3 from a tuber, 4—6 in. high, 
erect, branched, more or less pubescent on the young parts. Leaves 
spreading ; petiole 1-1} lin. long; blade 6-11 lin. long, 1}-2 lin. broad, 
