Tas. 5578. 
CEROPEGIA sororta. 
Kaffrarian Ceropegia. 
Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADEX.—PENTANDRIA MoNoGYNIA. . 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5306.) 
Crnopneta sororia; volubilis, glabra, caule tenui, foliis anguste linearibus 
utrinque acutis internodiis longioribus, pedunculis axillaribus unifloris 
elongatis, sepalis lineari-subulatis, corolle tubo glabro elongato, parte 
inferiore inflata elongata oblonga, parte superiore inferiore equilonga 
cylindrica, lobis partem superiorem tubi equantibus pendulis lineari- 
oblongis acutis ciliatis, corone staminee lobis exterioribus subulatis 
longe ciliatis, interioribus elongatis glabris. 
Crropxata sororia. Harvey, mss. 
In the eighty-ninth volume of this work a very remark- 
able South African species of this genus is figured,—C. Bow- 
keri, Tab. 5407,—partaking very much of the character of 
this in the singular pendulous lobes of the corolla, which 
move with the faintest breeze, and probably are intimately 
connected with the function of impregnation, though how 
does not appear. Like many South African plants, it has 
large tuberous roots, though I cannot say whether, like its 
above-named congener, it is erect in its native country and 
becomes a twiner in our damper climate, having no indigenous 
specimen at hand to judge from. The specimen here figured 
was flowered by Dr. Moore, of Glasnevin, in May, 1865, from 
seeds sent by Mrs. F. W. Barber, from Kaffraria, and named 
by Dr.Harvey, who is engaged in working up the Asclepiadee 
for the Cape Flora. Its name, sororta (sisterly), alludes to its 
_kinship with C. Bowkeri, Miss Bowker (now Mrs. Barber) 
having sent both species to Dr. Harvey. It has also been 
found by Zeyher in the Albany district. 
Descr. A slender, glabrous, rather glaucous, branching 
climber, with almost filiform stems and branches and long 
internodes. Leaves four to seven inches long, very narrow, 
May Ist, 1866. 
