446 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). | Ceropegia. 
acute, cuneate at the base, glabrous on both sides, very minutely 
ciliolate. Umbels pedunculate, several-flowered ; peduncle up to 1} 
in. long ; bracts minute; pedicels scarcely $ lin. long. Sepals 1 lin. long, 
oblong-triangular. Corolla white at the base, purple above, paler at the 
apex, obscurely spotted; tube 7} lin. long, dilated at the mouth, 
glabrous within ; lobes cohering at the tips, 2} lin. long, pilose. Outer 
-ecoronal-lobes concave, notched at the apex, pilose, blackish-purple ; 
inner coronal-lobes erect, cylindric, convolute at the apex, blackish- 
purple. 
Wile Land. Galla Territory: Bidduma, in shady woods, Riva, 1212. 
I have uot seen this species, which is imperfectly described, but appears to be 
allied to C. affinis, Vatke. 
15. GC. beccariana, Martelli, Florul. Bogos. 56. Stem twining, 
glabrous, about 1 lin. thick. Leaves herbaceous; _ petiole 4-7 
lin. long; blade 1-1} in. long, 4-1 in. broad, cordate-ovate, acuminate 
or acute, glabrous on both sides, distinctly ciliolate with a few very 
minute incurved hairs on the margins, and with similar hairs along the 
-channel of the petiole. Peduncles lateral, 1-2 in. long, terminating in 
a few-flowered umbel-like cyme, glabrous; bracts small, lanceolate, 
acuminate or subulate, glabrous; pedicels 5-6 lin. long, glabrous. 
Sepals 1 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Corolla-tube about 
9 lin. long, much incurved, inflated at the base, where it is 2}—3 lin. in 
diam., funnel-shaped, and about 34-4 lin. in diam. at the mouth, 
glabrous outside; lobes about 3 lin. long, connivent-erect, connate at 
the tips, replicate, with crisped margins, glabrous, not ciliate. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: near Keren, 4500 ft., Beccari, 306! 
A specimen of this plant was sent to Kew for determination by Dr. Martelli in 
1885, but as there was but one flower I did not dissect it, and the corona and interior 
-of the corolla are not described by the author. 
16. C. volubilis, V. HZ. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 261. Root 
fibrous (Welwitsch). Stem twining, slender, glabrous, ‘“‘more or less 
glaucous ” (Welwitsch). Leaves membranous in the dried state, spread- 
ing; petiole 44-9 lin. long, ciliate along the edges of the channelled 
face; blade 14-3 in. long, 3-14 in. broad, cordate-ovate, acute oF 
acuminate, mucronate, with short rounded basal lobes separated by @ 
small acute sinus, glabrous on both sides, ciliolate. Peduncles 2-5 
lin. long, glabrous, umbellately 2—4-flowered; bracts 4-1 lin. long, 
subulate ; pedicels 3-4 lin. long, glabrous or with short spreading hairs. 
Sepals 14 lin. long, subulate, glabrous, or with here and there a short 
hair. Corolla-tube 54-7 lin. long, 1} lin. in diam. at the short inflated 
base, slightly curved above, slightly enlarged into a funnel-shaped 
mouth 2} lin. in diam., glabrous outside and inside; lobes 3-35 
lin. long, erect, connate at the tips, deltoid-oblong, somewhat abruptly 
narrowed Just above the middle, replicate, ciliate in the upper part with 
vibratile purple hairs, otherwise glabrous. (Base of the corolla-tube 
yellowish, then in the inflated part and outside of the tube spotted with 
