Ceropegia. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 459 
and about 24 lin. in diam. at the mouth, greenish-white, tinged a faint 
dull purple outside, pale purplish within, having a few deflexed hairs. 
in the upper part ; lobes 3-3) lin. long, erect, connate at the tips, 
linear from a deltoid base, replicate, keeled along the fold within, 
greenish, blackish-purple on the keel, covered with rather long deflexed 
hairs on the inner face. Outer corona } lin. long, white, somewhat 
cup-shaped, shortly 10-lobulate ; 5 of the lobules alternating with the 
anthers, forming small truncate slightly ciliate pouches, the other 5 
- Opposite the inner coronal-lobes, erect, obtuse ; inner coronal-lobes 1-1} 
lin, long, erect, narrowly lanceolate, acute, white.—Gard. Chron. 1901, 
_ Xxix. 238, fig. 89. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Zombe, cultivated speci- 
men, Buchanan ! 
Described from a cultivated plant sent to Mr. J. O’Brien by Mr. John 
Buchanan, In the dried state the leaves are filiform and much more slender than 
described above, but in the figure in the Gardeners’ Chronicle they are represented 
as being much stouter than any I have seen. 
40. C. stenantha, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 152. Stem 
twining, rather slender, glabrous. Leaves thin in the dried state, pro- 
bably somewhat fleshy when alive; petiole 2—4 lin. long ; blade 1-2 in. 
long, 2-6 Jin. broad, lanceolate, acute, apiculate, cuneate-acute at the 
base, glabrous on both sides, ciliolate on the margin with a few adpressed 
distant hairs; midrib prominent beneath. Cymes umbel-like, sub- 
lateral at the nodes, 3—6-flowered ; peduncles 14-6 lin. long, glabrous ; 
bracts minute, subulate, glabrous; pedicels 4-2 lin. long, glabrous. 
Sepals 1 lin. long, scarcely } lin. broad, subulate, acute, suberect, gla- 
brous. Corolla straight, glabrous outside and on the lobes within, 
thinly pilose with extremely fine hairs inside at the base and middle of 
the tube, apparently concolorous or with the lobes rather darker than 
the tube, probably greenish ; tube 5—6 lin. long, slightly inflated and 
about 1} lin. in diam. in the basal half, tapering above, not dilated at 
the mouth, which is about 3-1 lin. in diam.; lobes 5-6 lin. long, 
scarcely 4 lin. broad, linear, replicate, erect, slightly curved, connate at 
the tips, not ciliate. Outer corona of 5 minute pouches alternating 
with the anthers; inner coronal-lobes } lin. long, flat, linear-lanceolate,. 
obtuse, erect or connivent to about their middle, then recurving, 
glabrous. 
Wile Land. Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2104! 
Var. parvifolia, N. E. Br. Leaves, at least on the terminal flowering part of 
the stem, much shorter than the flowers they subtend, {-} in. long (including the 
short petiole), 4-1 lin. broad, linear, mucronate, glabrous, ciliate on the margins. 
Cymes or umbel-like racemes subsessile or with a flowering axis 2—5 lin, long ; 
pedicels 2-2} lin. long, glabrous. Calyx, corolla and corona as in the type. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Coast district, Hannington! British 
Central Africa : Rhodesia ; central Leshumo Valley, Holub ! 
41. C. infausta, V. FE. Br. Stem twining, slender, glabrous. 
Leaves membranous; petiole 24—4 lin. long; blade 3-2? in. long, 4-8 
