-Ceropegiu. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). 441 
when in fruit. Sepals 1} lin. long, } lin. broad, linear-subulate, acute, 
pubescent, ascending. Corolla metallic blue-green (black in the dried 
state) on the lobes and in the mouth of the tube, yellow below (Johnson), 
pubescent outside, especially on the constricted part and lobes, very 
minutely puberulous at the base of the lobes and around the mouth of 
the tube, otherwise glabrous within; tube straight, 8—9 lin. long, 
inflated-cylindric-oblong for about } an in. of its length and there about 
2 lin. in diam. in the dried state, constricted above, very shortly and 
broadly funnel-shaped at the mouth ; lobes very spreading, not cohering 
at the tips, 21-2} lin. long, oblong, replicate, 1 lin. broad and subobtuse 
when flattened out. Outer corona of 5 small emarginate or shortly 
bifid lobes about } lin. long, forming 5 small pockets, hairy within ; 
inner coronal-jobes about $ lin. long, filiform, incumbent at the base on 
the backs of the anthers, then connivent-erect, slightly incurved in the 
upper part, dark-coloured in the middle part in the dried state, thinly 
hairy at the base, where they are dorsally adnate to the outer corona. 
Follicles linear-fusiform, glabrous. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Krobo Plains, Johnson, 790! ~ 
In the dried state this species is, at first sight, exceedingly like C. nigra, N. E. Br. ; 
it differs, however, in its longer corolla and very different coronal structure. 
5. C. loranthiflora, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 150. Tuber 
globose, #-l in. in diam. Stem 13-3 ft. high, twining, more or less 
densely pubescent or subtomentose with jointed hairs. Leaves herba- 
ceous ; petiole 4—2 in. long ; blade 1-2? in. long, }—? in. broad, lanceo- 
late or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, rounded or cuneately rounded at 
the base, pubescent on both sides. Umbels 3~—4-flowered, subsessile or 
on peduncles about 1 lin. long, all parts, including the outside of the 
corolla, covered with spreading jointed hairs; bracts 14-3 lin. long, 
subulate, recurving; pedicels 4-7 lin. long, rather slender. Sepals 
34-4 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla straight; tube } in. 
long, about 2 lin. in diam., tubular-campanulate, not inflated at the 
base, pubescent outside, glabrous ? inside ; lobes twice as long as the tube, 
6-7 lin. long, linear from a deltoid base, replicate, suberect, with free 
tips, densely and minutely puberulous on the inner face, reticulate with 
dark-coloured veins on their basal part, at the base the angles formed 
by their union project abruptly beyond the diameter of the tube. 
Outer coronal-lobes arising } lin. above the base of the staminal-column 
and reduced to 5 small pouches not reaching to the level of the base of 
the anthers ; inner coronal-lobes about } lin. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, 
incumbent on the backs of the anthers and not produced beyond them. 
Staminal-column with 5 linear blackish markings immediately under 
the outer coronal-lobes.—K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iv. ii. 272. (©. abyssinica, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 46 (excel. 
synonym (C. hirsuta, Hochst.); Vatke in Linnea, xl. 217; Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 343 (not of Decaisne). 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: near Tchelatchekanne (Jelajeranne), Quartin Dillon ! 
near Guendepta, Schimper (ex Richard); Amogui, 7200 ft., Schimper, 751 (ex 
Vatke & Engler), 781 (ex Schumann) ; and without precise locality, Parkyns ! 
