a] 
b 
452 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). | Ceropegia.. 
down their face, pale yellowish or whitish, with blackish lines extending 
a little way down the tube. Outer coronal-lobes arising } lin. above the 
base of the staminal-column, exceedingly short, spreading, transverse, 
distantly 2-toothed, dark-coloured; inner coronal-lobes } lin. long, 
connivent-erect, slightly clavate, blackish, much overtopping the 
incumbent anthers.—Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 272, fig. 81, 
B; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 695. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Malange, Mechow, 417! Pungo Andongo; near 
Quibanga, very rare, Welwitsch, 4271! and without precise locality, Mechow, 80" 
(ex Schumann), Golungo Alto ; Queta Mountains, near Carengue, Welwitsch, 4270! 
27. ©. Giletii, De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 
xxxviii. 95. Stem twining, terete, pubescent. Leaves: petiole about 
24 lin. long; blade about 17 lin. long, 7 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, 
acuminate, rounded or cordate at the base, with scattered hairs above,. 
rather softly pubescent beneath. Umbels subaxillary, from one axil, 
sessile, several-flowered; bracts linear, villous; pedicels 8 lin. long,. 
villous. Sepals 4 lin. long, linear-subulate. Corolla about 7 lin. long: 
tube about 4 lin. long, 1 lin. in diam., slightly inflated at the base, sparsely: 
pilose, violaceous at the base and with a narrow violet band around the 
middle; lobes about 4} in. long, linear, replicate, cohering at the tips, 
puberulous outside, violaceous, longitudinally striated on the inner face.. 
Corona undescribed. Follicles 14 in. long, 1 lin. thick, glabrous, 
longitudinally striated. 
Sontedad Guinea. Congo Free State: Lower Congo; near Dembo (Ndembo),. 
Gillet. 
I have not seen this species, which is closely allied to C. leucotenia, K. Schum.,. 
and (according to the description) only appears to differ in having the corolla-tube 
pilose outside. 
28. C. papillata, V. HZ. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 308. Stem 
twining, about % lin. thick, pubescent all round with short curved 
hairs. Leaves herbaceous ; petiole }~1 in. long ; blade 14-24 in. long, 
4-1 in. broad, elongate-ovate, very acuminate, cordate at the base, with 
short rounded lobes, densely and minutely pubescent or subtomentose 
on both sides. Cymes umbel-like, sessile or subsessile, rarely with a 
very short peduncle, 10~—20-flowered; bracts 2-4 lin. long, linear— 
subulate, pubescent; pedicels 4-5 lin. long, slender, pubescent 
with short spreading hairs. Sepals 3 lin. long, }-3 lin. broad, linear- 
lanceolate, acute, pubescent on the back. Corolla 1 in. long, straight, 
or nearly so, dull green at the basal part of the tube, pallid (whitish 2), 
above, the apical half of the lobes and the margins of their basal half 
blackish-green ; tube 9-94 lin. long, ovoid-inflated and 2 lin. in diam. ab 
the base, cylindric and 3-3? lin. in diam. above, scarcely or not at all 
dilated at the mouth, glabrous on both sides, but strongly papillate or 
tuberculate along the veins within the inflated part; lobes 3 lin. long, 
} lin. broad, erect, connate at the tips, linear, replicate, keeled dow? 
the upper part within, glabrous on the back, villous with rather long 
white hairs within. Outer corona arising } lin. above the base of the- 
