Ceropegia. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 449 
tube 9 lin. long, glabrous outside, inflated and 2 lin. in diam. at the 
base, 4 lin. in diam. at the funnel-shaped mouth; lobes 3 lin. long, 
connivent and cohering at the tips, deltoid-ovate, acute, replicate, quite 
glabrous, not ciliate, apparently dark purple. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet, 791! 
Described from a specimen in the herbarium of the British Museum, which [ 
have not dissected. 
21. C. scandens, V. £. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 262. Root 
fibrous, not tuberous (Welwitsch). Glabrous on all the green parts. 
Stem twining, moderately stout, about } in. thick. Leaves rather 
fleshy and limp (Welwitsch); petiole 6-10 lin. long; blade 2-3} in. 
long, 14-14 in. broad, ovate, oblong-ovate or elliptic-ovate, acuminate 
or acute, broadly rounded or emarginate at the base, membranous 
in the dried state, minutely ciliolate. Peduncles 3-1 in. long, umbel- 
lately 4—10-flowered ; bracts 14-24 lin. long, subulate, more or less 
revolute at the tips; pedicels 5-6 lin. long. Sepals 24-3 lin. long, 
subulate, with revolute tips. Corolla-tube 9-10 lin. long, curved above 
the slightly inflated base, where it is 2 lin. in diam., funnel-shaped 
and 4—5 lin. in diam. at the mouth, glabrous outside and inside; lobes 
» lin. long, erect, connate at the tips, oblong-ovate, replicate, ciliate to 
their base with vibratile purple hairs, otherwise glabrous, keeled within ; 
keel somewhat bulging at the middle. (Outside of corolla pale sulphur- 
yellow spotted with blood-red; inside of the lobes covered with long 
white hairs at the apex, and marked at their middle with a large black- 
purple spot, Welwitsch.) Outer coronal-lobes } lin. long, bifid; teeth 
erect, ciliate with long hairs on their outer margin; inner coronal- 
lobes 3 lin. long, much overtopping the staminal-column, erect, linear, 
subacute, glabrous.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 696. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto, hills by the Coango River, near 
Sange, rare and solitary, Welwitsch, 4273! 42733! 
22. ©. Meyeri-Johannis, Lngl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 343. 
Stem twining, rather slender, pubescent with short curved retrorse 
hairs. Leaves herbaceous; petiole 4-3? in. long; blade 1-1} in. long, 
2-1 in. broad, cordate-ovate or cordate-oblong, acuminate, with an acute 
basal sinus 2-3 lin. deep, pubescent on both sides. Peduncles 4~7 lin, 
long, pubescent, umbellately many-flowered; bracts 4-1 lin. long, 
lanceolate, pubescent ; pedicels 3}—6 lin. long, glabrous or with here and 
there a hair. Sepals 24 lin. long, linear, acute, with recurving tips, 
hispidulous-pubescent. Corolla glabrous outside; tube # in. long, 
abruptly curved nearly at a right-angle just above the ovoid- or globose- 
inflated base, which is 24-3 lin. in diam., cylindric and 1} lin. in diam. 
above, broadly and shortly dilated into a funnel-shaped mouth about 4-5 
lin. in diam.; mouth and upper part of the tube hairy within, glabrous 
in the lower part ; lobes } in. long, narrowly linear from a broadly deltoid 
base, replicate, incurved and connate at their tips, hairy on their inner 
face. Outer corona 1} lin. long, deeply cup-shaped, 10-toothed to 
nearly half-way down ; teeth linear, acute, erect, glabrous ; inner coronal- 
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