Ceropegia. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 455 
half-way down, the segments linear and divergent-curved at their tips ; 
inner coronal-lobes 1 lin. long, erect, linear, arising just within the 
sinuses between the lobes of the outer corona and neither incumbent 
on, nor inflexed over the anthers. Staminal-column 4-2 lin. long ; 
filaments of the stamens very shortly free above their attachment to 
the dilated top of the style; anthers small, oblong, inflexed over the 
convex top of the style—Walp. Ann. iii. 67. C. ringens, Vatke in 
Linnea, xl. 219; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 343; K. Schum. in 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 272, fig. 81, E, not of A. Rich. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder; Gomaro Valley, 6500 ft., Schimper, 
1171! and mountain slopes towards the River Reb, 7500 ft., Schimper, 1240! 
Shireh Province, Quartin Dillon (ex Richard). 
32. GC. Lugardez, NV. L. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1901, xxx. 302. 
Stem twining or rambling, 1-1} lin. thick, glabrous; internodes 
14-44 in. long. Leaves thin, herbaceous, green, spreading ; petiole 4—6 
lin. long, terete, channelled above, puberulous in the channel; blade 
2-2 in. long, $-1 in. broad, oblong, notched at the apex, with an 
apiculus or cusp in the notch, or occasionally obtuse, apiculate, cordate, 
subtruncate, rounded or cuneate at the base, flat or wavy, giabrous on 
both sides, very minutely ciliate on the margins. Cymes lateral at the 
nodes, subumbellately 3—6-flowered, the flowers developing successively ; 
peduncles 4-14 in. long, }~% lin. thick, glabrous ; bracts minute, subu- 
late; pedicels 3-6 lin. long, glabrous, green, spotted with purple 
towards the apex. Sepals 14-2 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, subulate, 
glabrous, purple-dotted. Corolla-tube about 1 in. long, abruptly curved 
immediately above the globose-inflated base, which is about } in. in 
diam. and has 5 depressions outside on the lower part opposite the 
sepals, forming a slight constriction there, cylindric above the inflation, 
and dilated at the apex into a funnel-shaped mouth about 4 in. in 
diam. ; outside white at the very base, very light green on the inflated 
part, then white passing into sulphur-yellow on the dilated part, and 
except at the very base covered with purple spots ; inside hairy at the 
base and in the upper half, glabrous in the middle part, rich blackish- 
crimson on the basal half, sulphur-yellow above, with the purple spots 
on the outside faintly showing through; lobes 9-10 lin. long, 
connivent-erect, connate at the tips, broadly deltoid in the basal half, 
linear-spathulate in the upper half, replicate, sulphur-yellow (pale 
greenish, veined with purplish-brown on the basal part, according to 
Mrs. Lugard’s drawing), ciliate with very fine white hairs on the 
margins and on the basal part of the keel inside. Outer corona 1 
lin. long, cup-shaped, 5-lobed; lobes about 2 lin. long, deltoid-ovate, 
bifid to nearly half-way down, with parallel teeth, dark purple-brown, 
covered with long white simple hairs on the inner side; inner coronal- 
lobes 14 lin. long, standing high above the staminal-column, stoutly 
filiform, obtuse, connivent-erect, with recurved tips, hairy and purple- 
brown at the base where adnate to the outer corona, glabrous and 
yellow above, with purplish tips. 
