“460 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). | Ceropegia. 
lin. broad, lanceolate-oblong or oblong, acute, narrowed at the base, 
minutely denticulate or serrulate, glabrous on both sides. Umbels 
from one axil of each pair of leaves, 3—6-flowered ; bracts subulate, gla- 
‘brous; pedicels slender, glabrous. Sepals 2-2} lin. long, subulate, 
glabrous. Corolla glabrous; tube 7 lin. long, slightly inflated and 
‘somewhat curved; lobes 6 lin. long, narrowly linear, cohering at the 
‘tips, subsagittate at the base, with replicate margins. Coronal-lobes 
very short, truncate, the outer (inner ?) clavate. Staminal-column 1 
lin. long.—Riocreuwia longiflora, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 459. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: between Khutu and Uhehe at the 
River Mloha, 2900 ft., Goetze, 495z. 
Unknown to me. According to the description this plant is a Ceropegia, and 
appears to be very closely allied to C. stenantha, K. Schum. The specifie name 
given by K. Schumann is already occupied under Ceropegia. The author does not 
state whether the umbels are sessile or pedunculate. 
42. C. floribunda, V. Z. Br. Stem twining, }-1 lin. thick, 
glabrous; internodes 13-34 in. long in the flowering part. Leaves 
apparently fleshy, rather rigid in the dried state ; petiole 1-3 lin. long ; 
blade 3-1 in. long, }—3 in. broad (probably larger in the lower leaves), 
-elliptic or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or retuse, apiculate, broadly rounded or 
somewhat cuneate at the base, glabrous above, sparsely and very 
minutely pubescent beneath, very minutely ciliate. Flowers very 
numerous, in dense sessile globose many-flowered umbels or clusters, 
which are lateral at every node; bracts minute 4-2 lin. long, subulate, 
glabrous; pedicels 1-14 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 1 lin. long, linear- 
‘subulate, glabrous. Corolla straight, glabrous outside, sparsely hairy 
inside the cylindric part of the tube, green or yellowish-green, with bape 
inflated part of the tube purplish on both sides; tube } in. long, 13-2 
lin. in diam. at the globose-inflated base, cylindric and about ? lin. in 
diam. above, not dilated at the mouth; lobes 4 in. long, 4 lin. broad at 
‘the base, erect, connate at the tips, linear-attenuate, flat on the back, 
not {replicate, glabrous, not ciliate. Outer corona 4 lin. long, wee 
shaped, obtusely pentagonal, truncate, not toothed, glabrous, white; 
inner-coronal lobes much exceeding the anthers, connivent-erect, 4 lin. 
long, 4 lin. broad, linear-spathulate, very obtuse, glabrous, white. 
Anthers ovate, obtusely apiculate. Follicles about 6 in. long and 4 in. 
thick, terete, tapering to an acute apex, according to Mrs. Lugard’s 
-drawing. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland ; Kwebe Hills, 3000 ft., 
very rare, Mrs. Lugard, 161! 
43. ©. medoensis, V. £. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 262. Stem 
erect, simple, shortly and softly villous, about 14 ft. high. Leaves dis- 
tant; petiole $-1} lin. long; blade 3-2} in. long; 1-1} in. broad, 
ovate, ovate-lanceolate or oblong, subacute, rounded or subcordate at 
the base, concolorous and shortly and softly pilose on both sides, with 
the hairs rather denser at the ciliate margins. Flowers 1-2 at the apex 
of the stem, large ; pedicels 2-4 lin. long, pubescent. Sepals 3-3} lin- 
