Tas. 5792. 
CEROPEGIA SANDERSONI. 
Mr. Sanderson's Ceropegia. 
Nat. Ord. AscLEPIADEZ.—PENTANDRIA Monocynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5806.) 
Crropecia Sandersoni ; glaberrima, caulibus robustis elongatis volubilibus, 
foliis crasse petiolatis ovatis v. ovato-cordatis subacutis obtusisve car- 
nosis, pedunculis brevibus crassis paucifloris, bracteolis parvis ovatis 
acutis, calycis lobis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, corolla albo-viridi 
magna ampla, tubo basi modice inflato curvo sursum valde ampliato 
late infundibuliformi translucido, lobis remotis in laminam horizontalem 
basi 2-lobam ciliatam dilatatis, laminibus in umbraculam latissimam 
5-lobam 5-sulcatam connatis, corone staminex lobis exterioribus 0, 
interioribus elongatis erectis apicibus recurvis. 
Ceropraia Sandersoni, Decaisne in litt. 
This very striking and conspicuous-flowered plant, was 
discovered in J uly, 1867, by our active and able correspondent, 
John Sanderson, Esq., of Natal, in the Bush on the banks of a 
stream flowing into the Umgeni river in a stony soil; and 
by: him a sketch was in the following year sent both to 
myself and to my friend M. Decaisne, who provisionally gave 
it the above name,—a richly-deserved compliment to its ex- 
cellent and liberal discoverer. In 1868 live specimens were 
transmitted in a Ward’s case by Mr. Sanderson to Kew, and 
these having gone on flowering abundantly, from the month 
of May till the present time, enable me to figure it here. In 
habit C. Sandersoni differs altogether from its congeners, as it 
does in its stout stem like that of a Vanilla, its succulent 
leaves, and the remarkable structure and colour of its semi- 
transparent flower capped by the curious broad lobed hood 
of mottled green, which bears near the margin a series of 
erect white flat hair-like processes. 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1869. 
