Tab. 6927. 

 CEROPEGIA MoNTEiBoa. 



Native of Delagoa Bay. 



Nat. Ord. Asclepiade.e. — Tribe Cebopegie.e. 

 Genus Cebopegia, Linn. ; {Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PL vol. ii. p. 779.) 



Ceeopegia Monteiroce ; glaberrima, eanle volubili, foliis carnosulis breviter petio- 

 latis ovatooblongis obtusis margine undulatis, floribus ad apicem pedunculi 

 crassi paucis erectis breviter crasse pedicellatis, sepalis parvis lanceolatis, 

 corolla 2|-3 pollicari, tubo basi oblongo-inflato dein anguste infun- 

 dibulari, lobis abrupte in laminam inflexam basi ciliatam horizontalem 

 dilatatis laminibus in umbraculam convexam albam purpureo-maculatam 5- 

 suleatam connatis, coronse staminea3 lobis exterioribus nullis, interioribus 

 elongatis incurvis in columnam 5-sulcatam conniventibus apicibus recurvie 

 obtusis. 



Those who frequent the Succulent House at Kew have 

 long been familiar with the Geropegia Sandersonice (Bot. 

 Mag. t. 5792), which, growiug in a pot, was trained up a 

 rafter on the left-hand side on entering, and which attracts 

 attention by its curious long green flowers, expanding into 

 the form of a trumpet, surmounted by a fringed green 

 spotted canopy, supported on five short legs. No second 

 species at all like it of the extensive genus to which it 

 belongs was ever known till 1884, when the tubers of that 

 here figured were sent to the Royal Gardens by Mrs. 

 IVlonteiro, of Delagoa Bay, widow of that able naturalist 

 J. Monteiro, the author of the best books ever written on 

 the Natural History of Tropical Africa.* 



G. Sandersonice, just referred to, is a native of Natal, and 

 was named in honour of a lady who, and whose husband 

 (the late J. Sanderson, Esq.), were active contributors to 

 the Royal Gardens. It seems, therefore, appropriate that 

 its near ally should bear the name of the lady to whom 

 the horticultural world is indebted for this singular plant. 



G. Monteiroce was received in 1884, and flowered in July, 

 1886. It comes from Delagoa Bay, a locality a good way 



* " Angola and the River Congo," by Joachim J. Monteiro. 2 vols. 

 Macmillan & Co. 1875. 



maech 1st, 1887. 



