456 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). [ Ceropegia. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland ; Kwebe Hills, 3000 ft., 
Mrs. Lugard, 262! also a cultivated specimen, Mrs. Lugard / 
Described partly from Mrs. E. J. Lugard’s dried specimen and drawing, and 
partly from a living plant presented by her to Kew. 
33. C. kwebensis, V. HZ. Br. Stem twining, slender, about # lin. 
thick, puberulous; internodes 4-5 in. long. ‘Leaves spreading, herba- 
ceous ; petiole 6-10 lin. long, puberulous; blade 13-2? in. long, 4-1} 
in, broad, ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, apiculate, very broadly rounded 
or slightly cordate at the base, when young minutely puberulous on both 
sides, afterwards almost glabrous above and puberulous on the veins 
beneath. Cymes axillary, umbellately 10-15-flowered, the flowers 
developing successively ; peduncles 8-9 lin. long, slender, with a minute 
scattered pubescence along one side; bracts minute, subulate ; pedicels 
4—5 lin. long, slender, glabrous. Sepals 1 lin. long, } lin. broad, subu- 
late, glabrous. Corolla-tube 2—? in. long, bent at a right-angle imme- 
diately above the slightly inflated base, which is 2—2} lin. in diam., 
cylindric and 13 lin. in diam. above, dilated into a funnel-shaped mouth 
3} lin. in diam., green and glabrous outside, purplish, or dull reddish- 
brown inside and very sparsely beset with long and very fine hairs; 
lobes 6-10 lin. long, linear from a short deltoid base 14 lin. broad, erect, 
connate at the tips, replicate, green, ciliate and with long fine purple 
hairs on the inner face. Outer corona cup-shaped, white, tinted with 
mauve and margined with red, 10-toothed ; teeth } lin. long, approxl- 
mate and parallel in pairs behind the inner coronal-lobes, hairy ; inner 
coronal-lobes 1 lin. long, } lin. broad or thick, much exceeding the 
staminal-column, stout, compressed ? faleate, very obtuse, erect, with 
the tips directed outwards, slightly hairy, white, tinted with mauve on 
the basal part. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland; Kwebe Hills, at 
3400 ft., apparently rare, Mrs. Lugard, 116! 
34. ©. racemosa, V. ZL. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 262. Stem 
twining, rather slender, glabrous. Leaves probably thinly fleshy ; 
petiole 14-3 lin. long; blade 14-2 in. long, 4—9 lin. broad, lanceolate 
or oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, apiculate, rounded at the. base, 
glabrous, but scaberulous above near and along the narrowly revolute 
margins. Peduncles racemosely few (2—4 2-) flowered, glabrous, includ- 
ing the flowering part 1-4 in. long; flowers 4-1} in. apart; bracts 
opposite, } lin. long, acute; pedicels 24-3 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 
1} lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Corolla straight, but 
slightly oblique at its insertion, glabrous outside ; tube about # in. long; 
cylindric, rather slender and about 1} lin. in diam. in the lower two- 
thirds, not inflated at the base; mouth broadly funnel-shaped, about 
4-4} lin. in diam. ; inside throughout its length clothed with long 
straight hairs ; lobes 6-7 lin. long, straight, connivent and cohering at 
the tips, linear from a somewhat dilated base, replicate, fringed with 
long hairs along the fold within. Outer coronal-lobes very deeply 
divided, forming 10 obliquely deltoid subacute teeth about } in. long, 
