-444 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). [ Ceropegia. 
with a shallow acute sinus between them, glabrous. Peduncles 
1-1} in. long, moderately stout, glabrous, 1-2- (or more?) flowered ; 
bracts 13-3 lin. long, linear or subulate, acute, glabrous; pedicels 
4-8 lin. long, moderately stout, glabrous. Sepals 5-6 lin. long, 
1-1} lin. broad, lanceolate, attenuate-acuminate, glabrous. Corolla 
glabrous outside, hairy at the mouth and base of the tube inside ; 
tube about 1 in. long, abruptly curved at a right angle above. its 
slightly globose-inflated base, where it is 3-34 lin. in diam., cylindric 
above and about 24 lin. indiam., shortly dilated into a broad funnel- 
‘Shaped mouth about 7-8 lin. in diam.; lobes about } in. long (only seen 
in bud), broadly deltoid-ovate at the base, connivent, then contracted 
and connate into a short narrow erect tube about 4 in. long, then 
abruptly dilated at the apex into a small 5-winged depressed knob, nearly 
2 lin. in diam. Outer corona ? (decayed and eaten) ; inner coronal-lobes 
1} lin. long, erect, spathulate-linear, obtuse. 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanguebar, Kirk, 28! 
10. ©. subtruncata, V. HL. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 260. 
Stem twining, with one pubescent line. Leaves herbaceous; petiole 
— in. long ; blade 13-3} in. long, 1-1} in. broad, ovate or oblong-ovate, 
subcuspidate-acuminate, cordate, emarginate or subtruncate at the base, 
glabrous above, more or less pilose with jointed hairs beneath, ciliate. 
Flowers solitary ; pedicels 7-9 lin. long, thinly pubescent. Sepals 2-4 
lin. long, lanceolate-attenuate, with a few short hairs on the back. 
Corolla curved, glabrous outside and inside; tube 3 in. long, rather stout, 
about } in. in diam., slightly inflated at the base, cylindric above, not 
dilated at the mouth; lobes 5 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, erect, with connate 
tips, broadly rhomboidal-obovate, replicate, forming asubtruncate apiculate 
limb broader than the tube. Outer corona arising about # lin. above the 
base of the staminal-column ; lobes deeply bifid, with teeth 3 lin. jong, 
ascending and attaining the level of the anthers, glabrous; inner 
coronal-lobes 1} lin. long, linear, acute, connivent-erect, connected at 
their base to the outer corona by 5 partitions, glabrous. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: without precise locality, Schimper, 628 ! 
11. C. sobolifera, V. H. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 261. 
Subterranean stems apparently widely creeping, tuberous? Stem 
twining, rather slender, with a pubescent line down one side. Leaves 
apparently somewhat fleshy ; petiole 2—3 lin. long; blade 2-1 in. long, 
2-4 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, rounded at the base, glabrous 
above, ciliate and with a few hairs beneath, at least on the nerves. 
Flowers in pairs or occasionally solitary; pedicels 3-4 lin. long, 
apparently 4-angled, but perhaps from shrinking in drying, glabrous. 
Sepals 14 lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Corolla very 
slightly curved, glabrous outside and inside; tube 7-8 lin. long, rather 
stout, cylindric, slightly inflated in the lower half and there about } in. 
in diam., about 24 lin. in diam. at the mouth; lobes 4 lin. Jong, 
2 lin. broad, connate at the tips, replicate, forming in outline a globose 
limb to the corolla, keeled down the face within. Outer coronal-lobes 
