804 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). | Riocrewana. 
1-23 in. long, bearing 2 distant umbels, with or without a third 
one at its base, puberulous along one side ; umbels 8-24-flowered, 
somewhat flat-topped ; pedicels 5-9 lin. long, glabrous, all more or 
less incurved ; sepals 1-1} lin. long, subulate or subulate-lanceolate, 
glabrous ; corolla-tube 33-4 lin. long, globose-inflated at the base, 
glabrous, apparently pale yellowish or whitish ; lobes connivent- 
erect, 34-4 lin. long, attenuate-linear, glabrous, drying dark brown ; 
outer corona-lobes radiately spreading, } lin. long, } lin. broad at 
the base, narrowly deltoid or deltoid-ovate, obtuse, subtruncate or 
minutely notched at the apex, concave-channelled down the face, 
without any teeth alternating with them ; inner corona-lobes linear 
or linear-subulate, acute or obtuse, nearly as long as the anthers 
and closely applied to their backs. 
Eastern Recton: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 338! and in Herb. Natal, 181! 
A species of Scilla has also been distributed by Mr, Wood as no, 181. 
6. R. Flanagani (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 13); 
stem twining, bifariously puberulous ; leaves thinly subcoriaceous, 
thinly sprinkled with minute hairs on both sides or nearly glabrous 
above ; petiole 4-1} in. long; blade 1-3} in. long, 3-24 in. broad, 
-cordate-ovate, acuminate; flower-fascicles umbel-like, j-1 in. In 
diam., compactly many-flowered, sessile or pedunculate ; peduncle 
0-2 in. long, bearing only 1 flower-fascicle ; bracts subulate ; 
pedicels 14-24 lin. long, glabrous ; sepals 14-1} lin. long, lanceolate, 
glabrous ; corolla-tube 24 lin. long, subcylindric, perhaps slightly 
contracted at the mouth, glabrous, apparently whitish or pale 
yellowish ; lobes spreading at the base, then arched inwards and 
connate at the tips, 3 lin. long, linear-filiform, replicate ? apparently 
orange or dull yellowish at the base and purple-brown above ; outer 
corona-lobes minute, } lin. long, deeply divided into 2 deltoid teeth 
turned face to face, yellow ; inner corona-lobes } lin. long, subulate 
or linear, incumbent on the backs of the anthers and much exceed- 
ing them, with their tips crossing one another or perhaps connivent, 
yellow. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 295. 
Coast Region: Bathurst Div. ; Trapps Valley, Miss Daly, 629! Komgha Div. ; 
valleys near Komgha, 2000 ft., Flanagan, 381! East London Div. ; hillside 
beyond the lighthouse at East London, Wood in Herb. Galpin, 2821! 
Eastern Recron: Transkei ; valleys around Kentani, Miss Pegler, 214 ! 
A specimen collected by Bowie ‘‘in moist thickets of George and the Knysna 
Forest ” appears to belong to this species, but the outer corona-lobes are subquadrate 
and only bifid at the apex, not deeply divided. 
XL. CEROPEGIA, Linn. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla tubular, usually more or less inflated at 
the base, straight or curved, 5-lobed ; lobes free or variably connate 
at their tips into a canopy or cage-like top, valvate in bud. Corona 
double, never 3-seriate ; outer corona cup-shaped and entire or 5-10- 
toothed, or of 5 bifid lobes often pouch-like at the base or reduced 
