454 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADES (BROWN). [ Ceropegia.. 
Allied to C. papillata, N. E. Br., but the more slender flowers, glabrous pedicels,. 
spurred buds, shorter depressed pear-shaped inflation at the base of the corolla, 
broader mouth of the tube and different coloration of the corolla, easily dis- 
tinguish it. 
30. C. Meyeri, Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 645. Stem twining, 
pubescent. Leaves herbaceous; petiole 4-6 lin. long; blade 1-1? 
in. long, $—3 in. broad, ovate, narrowed into a blunt point, rounded or 
somewhat cordate at the base, near which the margins are often 
slightly undulate or crisped, pubescent on both sides. Umbels sessile 
at the nodes, 2-4-flowered; pedicels 34-4 lin. long, slender, pubescent. 
Sepals 2-4 lin. long, linear, pubescent. Corolla 14-14 in. long, straight : 
tube 12-13 lin. long, inflated, cylindric-oblong for two-thirds of its 
length, about } in. in diam., tapering above to about 14 in, in diam., 
abruptly dilated at the mouth to about 24 lin. in diam., glabrous on 
both sides, whitish, marked with purple-brown lines; lobes 4-43 
lin. long, connivent-erect or inarching, connate at the tips, linear, 
replicate, glabrous on both sides, ciliate with long hairs, apparently 
blackish-purple. Outer corona 3 lin. long, arising ? lin. above the 
base of the staminal-column, cup-shaped, with 5 elongate-deltoid acute 
teeth as long as the tubular part, glabrous; inner coronal-lobes 
1 lin. long, connivent-erect, linear-spathulate, obtuse. The entire 
corona white, variegated with blackish-purple.—Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 47. C. pubescens, E. Meyer, Comment. 193, not 
of Wallich. 
Mozamb. Dist. Tropical Transvaal: among shrubs by the rivers Litonandoa 
and Limvovo, 1800 ft., Schlechter, 4527. 
I have not seen a tropical specimen of this plant, and describe it from South 
African material. 
31. C. convolvuloides, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 47. Stem 
twining, covered with spreading hairs. Leaves herbaceous ; petiole 
5-15 lin. long, pubescent with spreading hairs; blade 2-3} in. long; 
3-21 in. broad, cordate-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, cordate at 
the base, softly pubescent on both sides. Cymes umbel-like, 12-20- 
flowered ; peduncles 3-6 lin. long, pubescent with spreading hairs ; 
bracts 14-3 lin. long, narrowly lanceolate or subulate, acute, pubescent ; 
pedicels 3-6 lin. long, pubescent with spreading hairs. Sepals 2-24 
lin. long, 3—3 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, acute, pubescent like the 
pedicels. Corolla 10-12 lin. long, covered outside with a short spreading 
pubescence, glabrous in all parts within ; tube 6-7 lin. long, 1? lin. 10 
diam. at the inflated base, above which it is slightly curved and 
cylindric, shortly funnel-shaped and about 2 lin. in diam. at the mouth, 
blackish-purple within, except at the apex and base ; lobes 4—5 lin. long, 
greenish-black within, ovate in the basal part, linear above, replicate, 
erect, connate at the apex, gibbous-carinate within near the base, 
where, at the sinuses, they are externally produced downwards into five 
spur-like projections 14-1} lin. long. Outer corona 14-1} lin. long, 
cup-shaped at the base, with 5 erect oblong lobes } lin. long, bifid to 
