Ceropegia. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 461 
long, lanceolate-subulate, pubescent. Corolla straight, 2} in. long, very 
sparsely pubescent outside, glabrous within, “dark reddish-violet out-- 
side, yellow inside up to the lower half of the lobes ” (Schumann); tube 
13-13 in. long, inflated for 43-6 lin. at the base, narrowly funnel-. 
shaped and probably 5-6 lin. in diam. at the mouth, about 1} lin. in. 
diam. at the intermediate part; lobes about 1 in. long, connate for {-} 
of their length at the elliptic-spathulate or obovate-spathulate more or: 
less replicate apical part into a short broad apiculate cone or umbrella-. 
like top, with a broad wing-like keel down their inner face; claw 
linear. Outer corona arising about 4 lin. above the base of the 
staminal-column, campanulate, 10-toothed ; tube $-3 lin. long; teeth 
1-1} lin. long, linear, obtuse, glabrous ;_ inner coronal-lobes 1 lin. long,. 
attaining the same level as the teeth of the outer corona, erect, subu- 
late, glabrous, dorsally connected to the outer corona by 5 vertical 
truncate partitions.—C. dichroantha, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 
385. 
Mozamb. Dist. (erman East Africa: Kondeland ; on Ukangu Mountain, 
near Langenburg, Goetze, 839! Portuguese East Africa: Medo country ; between 
Lujenda River and Ibo, Last / 
Of C. dichroantha, I have seen only a leaf and one calyx from the type specimen, 
which are perfectly identical with those of C. medoensis ; the description also quite 
agrees with the latter species. 
44, GC. umbraticola, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 153. Stem 
herbaceous, erect from a curved base, puberulous and scaberulous above, . 
glabrous in the lower part. Leaves: petiole 2—4 lin. long; blade 1-2 
in. long, 4-9 lin. broad, ovate, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, acute, 
rounded at the base, minutely pubescent on both sides, 3-nerved at the 
base. Flowers solitary, large; pedicels 4-10 lin. long, moderately 
stout, puberulous. Sepals 24-3 lin. long, lanceolate-attenuate, puberu- 
lous. Corolla nearly straight; tube 1} (24 Schumann) in. long, some- 
what inflated in the lower half, scarcely dilated at the mouth, which is 
about } in. in diam., pubescent outside on the upper two-thirds, 
glabrous within; lobes about 1 in. long, 1-1} lin. broad at the base, 
erect, linear, connate at the tips, reflexed or perhaps replicate along the 
margins, pubescent on the back and ciliate with similar short hairs, 
glabrous on the inner face. Outercorona arising from near the base of 
the staminal-column, campanulate, 10-toothed ; tube 14 lin. long; teeth 
1-1} lin. long, erect, linear, obtuse, sparsely covered on the inner face 
and margins with long straight hairs; inner coronal-lobes % lin. long, 
not nearly reaching the same level as the teeth of the outer corona, 
linear, obtuse, glabrous, connivent-erect over the backs of the anthers, 
dorsally connected to the outer corona by 5 vertical truncate partitions. 
—Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. Siz, ng. Si, £- 
Lower Guinea. Angola: near Malange, Mechow, 370 ! 
Schumann describes the corolla as being about 33 in. (8°5 em.) long, of which the 
tube measures 24 in. (6 em.) in length, and states that the corolla-tube and the corona. 
are both glabrous. I find them as described above. 
