450 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). [ Ceropegia. 
lobes erect, 1 lin. long, spathulate-linear, obtuse, only slightly overtop- 
ping the outer corona, glabrous.—K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 
327, t. 40, fig. A-E, corona very inaccurate, and in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iv., ii, 272, fig. 81, C. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 6000 ft., Johnston ! 
between 900 and 5400 ft., Meyer, 196 (ex Engler). 
23. C. purpurascens, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 152. 
Stem twining, slender, }—-} lin. thick, glabrous. Leaves herbaceous ; 
petiole 24-5 lin. long; blade 3 to 12 in. long, 44-10 lin. broad, oblong, 
ovate-oblong or rarely broadly elliptic, acute, mucronulate, truncate 
or acute at the base, glabrous. Peduncles umbellately several-flowered, 
glabrous. Sepals 2 lin. long, subulate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. 
Corolla 94 lin. long ; tube inflated at the base; lobes about as long as 
the tube, attenuate into linear tails from an ovate-triangular base, 
incurved over the mouth of the tube in the form of a globe and con- 
nate at their tips, ciliate. Outer corona } lin. long, cup-shaped, 
10-toothed ; inner coronal-lobes linear-subspathulate three times as long 
as the outer corona. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: near Pungo Andongo, Mechow, 122. 
I have not seen this plant, which is stated to be allied to C. leucotenia, K. 
Schum., and C. ringens, A. Rich. 
24. C. fusiformis, NV. £. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 273. Stem 
twining, glabrous, moderately slender ; internodes 4—7 in. long. Leaves 
(only 3 seen) petiolate; petiole 6-8 lin. long; blade 14-24 in. long, 
3-11 in. broad, ovate or elliptic-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, 
apiculate, cuneately narrowed into the petiole at the base, glabrous, 
minutely and sparsely ciliolate on the margins. -Peduncles lateral, 1-1} 
in. long, subumbellately 6-10-flowered, glabrous ; floral axis ultimately 
2-7 lin. long; bracts minute, $-3 lin. long, subulate ; pedicels 3-4 lin. 
long, glabrous. Sepals 2 lin. long, elongate-ovate at the base, acuminate 
into a complicate-subulate point. Corolla-tube rather abruptly curved 
near the base and about 14 in. or rather more in length along the curve, 
ovoid-inflated and about 2 lin. in diam. at the base, then narrowed and 
again enlarged into a fusiform inflation about 3 lin. in diam. at the middle, 
then dilated intoafunnel-shaped mouth 4 lin. in diam., glabrous outside, 
hairy within in the basal part; lobes erect, 4-43 lin. long, connate at 
the tips, broadly deltoid, strongly replicate, with the keels formed by the 
folds straight, all meeting at the centre and terminating at the base 1n 
nearly a right-angle, quite glabrous on both sides, not ciliate. Outer 
coronal-lobes } lin. long, ? lin, broad, erect, broadly ovate-deltoid, 
minutely bifid or emarginate at the apex, glabrous outside, clothed with 
long retrorse hairs within ; inner coronal-lobes 1} lin. long, much over- 
topping the staminal-column, connivent-erect, flat, oblong-linear, nar- 
rowed at the base and there dorsally connected with the outer corona, 
covered with rather long hairs on the back. 
