‘Ceropegia. | LXXKV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 453 
# lin. long staminal-column and much exceeding it, shortly cup-shaped 
at the base, with 5 erect linear more or less bifid lobes or teeth ? 
lin. long, glabrous, white; inner coronal-lobes 2—} lin. long, connivent- 
erect, linear, white, glabrous. Anthers oblong, incumbent on the 
‘truncate apex of the style. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: plateau of Mount Zomba, 5000- 
‘6000 ft., Whyte / 
29. ©. calearata, V. #. Br. Stem slender, twining, thinly 
covered with a minute reflexed pubescence mingled with a few longer 
hairs. Leaves herbaceous, spreading ; petiole 8-15 lin. long, pubescent ; 
blade 14-4 in. long, 3-3 in. broad, cordate-ovate, obtusely pointed or 
shortly acuminate ; basal lobes about 2-9 lin. long, rounded, in young 
plants separated by a narrow sinus, in older plants overlapping and 
enclosing a small rhomboid sinus; upper surface green, thinly pubes- 
cent; under surface paler, puberulous. Cymes sessile or subsessile, 
umbellately 3-6-flowered in young plants, densely many-flowered in 
adult plants; flowers opening in pairs or in succession ; pedicels 3-5 
lin. long, rather slender, glabrous. Sepals applied to the base of the 
corolla, 1} lin. long, } lin. broad, subulate, acute, somewhat gibbous at 
the very base, with a few minute hairs on the back. Corolla (when in 
bud) with 5 short horizontal spurs at the base of the obtuse narrowly 
conical limb; tube 9 lin. long, slightly curved immediately above the 
very abruptly inflated base, which is depressed pear-shaped, 2 lin. long, 
24 lin. in diam.; middle part slender, cylindric, 3 lin. in diam., 
dilated at the apex into a funnel-shaped mouth 3 lin. in diam. ; 
outside glabrous, dull purple; inside dark purple in the lower part, 
passing into dark green above, and at the mouth veined with dark 
green on a whitish ground, thinly pubescent with long and short hairs 
in the mouth, glabrous in the lower part, with numerous longitudinal 
tuberculate ribs in the inflated part; lobes 3 lin. long, straight, conni- 
vent-erect, connate at the tips, linear from a deltoid base, replicate, 
glabrous on the back, dark green within on the margins and at the 
apex, whitish with a dark green central line on the lower part of the 
face, covered with deflexed simple hairs on the margins and central 
part of the keel-like face, those on the face longest. Outer corona 
arising at the base of the staminal-column, 1 lin. long, cup-shaped, 5- 
lobed to half-way down, pure white, with the tips of the lobes red and 
with 5 black spots at the base inside, glabrous; lobes } lin. long and as 
much in breadth at the base, erect or slightly incurved, deltoid- 
oblong, minutely bifid or 3-toothed at the apex; inner coronal-lobes 
very much longer than the anthers, 1 lin. long, filiform, connivent- 
erect, recurved at the apex, dorsally adnate to the outer corona at the 
very base, glabrous, white, marked with light green at the base, blood- 
red or carmine at the recurved tips. Anthers narrowly oblong, obtuse, 
yellow. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Zomba, Mahon! 
Described from a living plant sent to Kew by Mr. John Mahon, which flowered 
in September 1899. 
