462 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). | Ceropegia. 
45. ©. campanulata, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 112. A small 
bulbous-rooted plant (Don). Stem 6 in. high, 4 lin. thick, simple, 
apparently not twining, pubescent in the upper part, 1—2-flowered. 
Leaves erect, subsessile, 14-14 in. long, 3-1 lin. broad, linear, acute, 
tapering at the base, minutely scaberulous along the margins and on 
the midrib beneath. Flowers terminal; pedicel of the detached flower 
broken, 2 lin. long, thinly puberulous at the apex. Sepals ascending, 
2 lin. long, 3 lin. broad at the base, whence they gradually taper to an 
acute point, thinly pubescent. Corolla about 2 in. long, straight ; tube 
13 lin, long, 2? lin. in diam. at the inflated base, gradually narrowing 
to 1} lin. in diam. at the middle, then dilating into a funnel-shaped 
mouth 43 lin. in diam., glabrous outside ; lobes erect, cohering at their 
tips, 10-11 lin. long, linear from a deltoid base, replicate, and in the 
folded state } lin. broad, inside rather densely covered with woolly white 
hairs.—Hook. Niger Fl. 457. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Accra, Don / 
The above is compiled partly from Don’s brief description and partly from the 
‘type specimen in the British Museum, which consists of a single stem 5} in. long, 
with the top broken off, and a single detached flower, which I have not dissected. 
The above measurements are taken from the dried flower, the colour of which is 
pallid with a dark base to the tube, but Don describes it as dark purple-brown. 
46. C. filipendula, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 150. 
Rhizome short ; roots fusiform. Stem solitary, erect, simple, about 14 
ft. high, ;4, in. thick, puberulous, subscabrid. Leaves very shortly 
petiolate, herbaceous, 3-1} in. long, $-1 in. broad, ovate-oblong, obtuse 
‘or somewhat acute, mucronulate, scabrid-puberulous on both sides. 
Inflorescence terminal, racemose, about 4} in. long; pedicels short, 
stout, puberulous. Sepals 2-24 lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, puberu- 
lous, ciliolate. Corolla 14-13 in. long; tube 6-8 lin. long, globose- 
inflated at the base, broadly dilated at the mouth, minutely puberulous 
‘outside; lobes as long as or rather longer than the tube, about 8 lin. 
long, broadly ovate, connate at the apex, recurved along the margins 
(replicate ?). Outer corona 1} lin. long, cup-shaped, 10-toothed; teeth 
linear, glabrous ; inner coronal-lobes 2 lin. long, linear, erect, dorsally 
connected at the base to the outer corona by 5 partitions, glabrous.— 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 272, fig. 81, D, and 273. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: near Cissacola in the neighbourhood of the River 
‘Coango, Mechow, 5538. 
47. ©, abyssinica, Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 644. Tuber 3-1 in. 
in diam., subglobose. Stem 3-1 ft. high, erect, simple, not twining, 
hairy. Leaves herbaceous ; petiole 1-1} lin. long ; blade 1—1} in. long, 
13-5 lin. broad, varying from oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate-linear, 
with scattered hairs on both sides. Flowers 1—3 (or more ?) at the 
uppermost nodes (reduced sessile umbels), forming a moderately 
compact, terminal, racemose inflorescence ; bracts 1-14 lin. long, subu- 
late, hairy ; pedicels }~} in. long, clothed with spreading hairs, as are 
also the 2} lin. long subulate sepals. Corolla straight, 11 lin. long; 
