Ceropegia. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 563 
tube } in. long, about 2 lin. in diam., subcylindric, slightly constricted 
just below the mouth, which is about 2 lin. in diam., glabrous outside 
and inside, whitish, with the base and a band above the middle 
purplish ; lobes 5 lin. long, erect, connate at the tips, spathulate; lower 
half linear, 2 lin. broad, flat ; spathulate part 1-1} lin. broad, narrowly 
elliptic, replicate, apparently blackish or greenish-black, which colour 
extends to the mouth of the tube, outside sparsely pubescent towards 
the tips, glabrous within. Corona arising about } lin. above the base 
of the staminal-column, about 1 lin. long, black, quite glabrous; outer 
coronal-lobes reduced to minute pallid notched pouches, reaching to 
the level of the anthers; inner coronal-lobes } lin. long, connivent- 
erect, linear, spathulate (? trigonous).—C. hirsuta, Hochst. ex Decne. 
in DC. Prod. viii. 644. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Tigre; near Gafta, Schimper, 1416! and without 
precise locality, Schimper, 368! 
Both A. Richard and Vatke have mistaken C. loranthiflora for this species. 
48. C. vignaldiana, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 11. 48. Tuber 
globose. Stem herbaceous, 3-4 in. high, not twining. Leaves }-1}4 
in. long, 14-24 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, acute, attenuate at the 
base, scarcely petiolate, glabrous. Umbels lateral, very shortly 
pedunculate, 2~3-flowered; pedicels 2—3 lin. long. Sepals about 14 
lin. long, lanceolate, acute. Corolla-tube about 1 in. long, curved above 
the globose-inflated base, rather slender, abruptly dilated at the mouth, 
purplish at the base, greenish above; lobes about 34 lin. long, erect, 
connate at the tips, linear from a deltoid base, replicate, yellowish- 
green. Corona campanulate, with 5 long narrow ligulate (subulate ?) 
acute lobes (probably the inner coronal-lobes, the outer ones are probably 
small and pouch-like).—Walp. Ann. iii. 67. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Wojerat; in the Sensata meadows, Petit (ex 
Richard.) 
I have only seen a drawing of this plant copied from a coloured drawing made 
by Vignald, which accompanies Richard’s type specimen in the Herbarium of 
M. Drake del Castillo, from which I partly describe. 
49. C. Steudneri, Vatke in Linnea, xl. 217. Tuber globose, 
5-2 in. in diam. Stem solitary, erect, not twining, simple, hairy, 
growing to more than 20 in. high. Leaves petiolate in the lower part, 
subsessile on the upper part of the stem ; petiole up to 4 in. long; 
blade 1-2} in. long, and up to 1 in. in breadth ; lower leaves oval 
{ovate ?), upper oval-oblong, acute, all crenulate, pilose. Cymes sessile, 
1-6-flowered ; pedicels about 4 in. long, slender, hairy. Calyx-lobes 
subulate, hairy. Corolla 7 lin. long, straight; tube more or less 
ventricose, about 3 times as long as the sepals, striate; lobes obovate- 
oblong, connate at the tips, more or less hairy outside towards the apex. 
Corona simple; segments united at the base, produced above into 
fleshy ligules ; ligules free, black, furnished with a tuft of long hairs at 
the base, puberulous at the apex, glabrous elsewhere. — Engl. 
