Tas. 7704, 
CEROPEGIA Wooptt. 
7 Native of Natal. : 
Nat. Ord. AscLerIaDEX%.—Tribe CEROPEGIEM. - 
Genus Ceropreia, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 779.) 
Cerorecia Woodii; herba tuberosa, glabra, ramis gracillimis decumbentibus 
vel pendentibus ad nodos seepe tuberiferis, foliis petiolatis }~1 poll, longis 
et latis late cordato-ovatis vel orbiculari-reniformibus acutis vel obtusis 
carnosis supra albo-venosis, cymis axillaribus peduneulatis 2-3-floris, 
pedicellis 3-3} lin. longis, sepalis $ lin. longis lineari-lanceolatis acutis, 
corollz tubo 7-9 lin. longo basi globoso-inflato superne cylindrico ore 
leviter infundibuliformi rubro-purpureo lineato, lobis erectis apice co- 
herentibus angustis replicatis ciliatis atro-purpureis, coronz exterioris 
- breviter cupulilormis lobulis integris, corons interioris lobis linearibus 
vel lineari-lanceolatis apice recurvis acutis. 
C. Woodii, Schlechter in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. xviii., Beibl. No. 45, p. 34; 
and vol. xx., Beibl. No. 51, p. 49. Gard. Chron, 1897, vol. ii. pp. 357, 
358, fig. 104, 
This pretty,species of Ceropegia was discovered by Mr. 
J. Medley Wood, the energetic Curator of Durban Botanic 
Gardens, in February, 1881, hanging from rocks on Groen 
Berg, Natal, at an altitude of about one thousand eight 
hundred feet. In 1894 Mr. Wood sent a living plant of it 
to Kew, and subsequently it has been introduced into 
other establishments. It seems to be nearest allied to 
C. africana, Br., and O. Barkleyi, Hook. f. (Bot. Mag. 
t. 6815), but is a much more slender and more elegant 
plant than either of these. It is admirably adapted for 
basket culture, as it produces a profusion of slender stems 
which hang gracefully down on all sides, and are well 
furnished with small variegated leaves. It flowers freely, 
and ripens fruit under cultivation. The accompanying 
figure was made from plants cultivated in the Botanic 
Garden at Cambridge, and in the Royal Gardens, Kew. 
It flowers under cultivation from February to November. 
Descr.—Glabrous in all parts except the corolla. Root- 
stock tuberous, fleshy. Stems numerous, pendent, or 
trailing on the ground, slender, often producing globose 
tubers at the nodes. Leaves opposite, fleshy, one-third of 
Marca Ist, 1900. 
