Ceropegia. | LXXXV. ASULEPIADEE (BROWN). 447 
purple-brown on a whitish-yellow ground; upper part striate inside 
with blackish-purple; throat and basal part of the lobes reticulate with 
purple-brown ; apex of the lobes within velvety purple, and covered 
with long purple rigid hairs; greyish outside, Welwitsch.) Outer 
corona divided nearly to the base into 10 ascending-spreading lobes ; 
adnate on one side for half their length to the backs of the inner 
coronal-lobes, their free ‘part $ lin. long, oblong, obtuse, ciliate with 
rather long hairs; inner coronal-lobes 1 lin. long, linear, obtuse, erect, 
glabrous.— Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 695. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; by the River Coango in the Queta 
Mountains, Welwitsch, 4272! 42723! 
In the Catalogue of Welwitsch’s Plants, by some error, which Mr. Hiern in- 
forms me he js unable to explain, this plant is described as “ shiggy throughout,” but 
the type specimens and that at Kew are as described above. 
17. ©. nilotica, Kotschy in Sitzungsb. Wien. Math.-Nat. Akad. 
1865, li. 356. Tuberous, glabrous. Stem twining, slender, fleshy ; 
internoles 2 in. long. Leaves somewhat fleshy, 1 in. long, 8 lin. broad, 
ovate-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, acuminate, denticulate towards 
the apex with callose cuspidate teeth. Peduncles lateral, quadrangular, 
two-flowered (described as being shorter than the leaves in the 
diagnosis, and longer than the leaves in the description). Sepals 14 
lin. long, subulate, spreading. Corolla 14 in. long; tube clavate, 
slightly inflated at the base, dilated and } in. broad at the mouth, 
glabrous; lobes } in. long, deltoid, connate at the apex, blackish-purple 
and pilose within, marked with a yellow spot at the base. Outer coronal- 
lobes horizontal, short, dilated truncate, entire, glabrous ; inner coronal- 
lobes linear-spathulate, straight, three times as long as the outer corona, 
glabrous, yellowish. 
Nile Land. Kingdom of Barri: near Gondokoro, Knoblecher, 35. 
I have not seen this species. The pedicels are not mentioned in the description. 
18. ©. mozambicensis, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 273. 
Stem twining, 1-1} lin. thick, probably somewhat fleshy, glabrous ; 
internodes 4-7 in. long. Leaves spreading ; petiole 3-6 lin. long; 
blade 3-1? in. long, 5-10 lin. broad, lanceolate, ovate or elliptic, rather 
abruptly mucronate-acute or, in the lanceolate forms, more or less 
acuminate, broadly or acutely cuneate at the base, glabrous, often 
undulate, setulose-denticulate on the margins, thin in the dried state, 
but probably somewhat fleshy when alive. Peduncles }—1} in. long, 
moderately stout, about 2-3-flowered at the apex, glabrous; bracts 
3-1 lin. long, subulate, glabrous; pedicels 3-5 lin. long, glabrous. 
Sepals 2 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. Corolla glabrous 
outside ; tube 14-12 in. long, slightly curved, inflated for nearly half 
its length, constricted at the middle of the inflated part, cylindric 
in the upper, abruptly widened into a short funnel-shaped mouth 
8-3 in. in diam. ; tube externally whitish or greenish, spotted with 
blackish-purple, basal part below the constriction inside purple, 
greenish or whitish? above, blackish-purple at the moath, which is 
