‘Tar. 8066. 
CEROPEGIA rosca, 
Grand Canary. 
ASCLEPIADACE A, 
Crropget, Linn.; Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 779. 
Ceropegia fusca, C. Bolle in Bonplandia, vol. ix. (1861), p. 51; affinis 
presi oe a qua caulibus crassioribus albidis et floribus rubro-brunneis 
iffert. 
Planta succulenta, e basi ramosa,subaphylla. Caules vel rami 14-6 ped. longi, 
6-9 lin.‘ crassi, cylindrici, articulati, glabri, albidi, Folia paucissima, 
$-13 poll. longa, 1-2 lin. lata, lineari-lanceolata, acuminata, Flores ad 
nodos fasciculati, erecti, breviter pedicellati. Sepala 1 lin. longa, 
deltoideo-attenuata, glabra. Corolla 14 poll. longa, extra glabra, rubro- 
brannea; tubus 10-11 lin. longus, inferne leviter inflatus, superne infun- 
dibularis, intra parce hirtus, albidus; lobi 7 lin. longi, e basi deltoideo- 
lanceolata 24 lin. lata lineari-attenuati, apice connati vel demum liberi. 
Corona lutea, glabra: lobi exteriores 3 lin. longi, breviter bifidi, lobis 
interioribus adnati; lobi interiores 1 lin. longi, filiformes, erecti, conni- 
ventes. Folliculi 6-6} poll. longi, ¢ poll. crassi, erecti, teretes, superne 
attenuati, obtusi, glabri, olivacei, fusco-punctati. 
The odd-looking plant here figured bears so little 
resemblance, in its stems and habit, to the majority of the 
species of Ceropegia, that when out of flower it might 
easily be mistaken for a Huphorbia. The only other species 
of Ceropegia with which it can be compared is the nearly 
allied C. dichotoma, which is also a native of the Canaries, 
and C. stapelioides, a native of South Africa, both of which 
have long been in cultivation. 
C. fusca is a native of Grand Canary, where it was 
originally discovered by Carl Bolle about the year 1860. 
Since that time it does not appear to have been collected, 
and nothing more was known of it until 1904, when Mr. 
Walter Ledger, of Wimbledon, who is much interested 
in this genus, was instrumental in its rediscovery. He 
furnished Mr. Alaricus Delmard, a botanist resident in 
the Canary Islands, with its recorded habitat, and that 
gentleman soon succeeded in finding this interesting 
species, and early in 1905 sent the living plant, here 
figured, to Kew, where it flowered in June. Mr. Ledger 
writes that, according to Mr. Delmard, the goats have 
nearly exterminated the plant in its native locality. It 
Marcu Ist, 1906. 
