808 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [ Ceropegia. 
Corolla-lobes distinctly enlarged 
at the tips, linear-spathulate, 
ciliate to the tips: 
Stem slender, very flexible, pen- 
dulous or prostrate, often 
bearing tubers ; leaves as 
broad as or broader than 
long, white-veined ..- (21) Woodii. 
Stem twining or straight and 
pendulous or prostrate, not 
bearing tubers ; leaves often 
longer than broad, not 
white-veined Mies ... (22) Caffrorum. 
Corolla-lobes not enlarged at the 
tips, narrowly linear: 
Corolla-lobes glabrous or with 
only a few hairs at the base 
of the keel on the inner face ; 
inner corona-lobes  tri- 
quetrous-filiform ... ... (28) assimilis. 
Corolla -lobes covered on the 
inner face and ciliate with 
purple hairs ; inner corona- 
lobes much compressed 
: laterally, broadly falcate ... (24) africana. 
§§ Corolla-lobes 2 lin. long or less, dilated 
at the apex ; stemtwining. (If the 
lobes are connate at the tips in 36, 
C. leptocarpa, it should belong here, 
its corolla is 7 lin. long with thinly 
ciliate lobes) : 
Leaves lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, 
23-4 lin. broad ; corolla-tube about 
4 in. long ... see wae ... (25) euryacme. 
Leaves ovate or deltoid-ovate, 3-9 lin. : 
broad ; corolla-tube 3-3 in. long (26) tenuis. _ 
tt Corolla-lobes not much shorter to longer than 
the tube, very narrowly linear or linear- 
filiform : 
Leaves }-? lin. broad, 10-30 times as long sep 
as broad ; corolla-lobes 7-10 lin. long (32) —— 
, ormis. 
Leaves 1-5 lin. broad, 3-9 times as long : 
as broad ; corolla-lobes 8-9 lin. long... (33) Barklyi. 
1. C. Bowkeri (Harv. Thes. Cap. i. 9, t. 14) ; rootstock a cluster 
ot stout fusiform fleshy roots (not a tuber as originally described) ; 
stems 4-1 ft. (or more?) high, erect, simple, glabrous ; leaves erect 
or ascending, the lower 14-23 in. long, 3-14 lin. broad, the upper 
smaller, linear, acute, glabrous; flowers 1-5, solitary at the upper 
nodes and terminal, distant ; pedicels 4—? in. long, glabrous ; sepals 
24-4 lin. long, subulate ; corolla-tube erect, 3—} in. long, globose- 
inflated and } in. in diam. at the base, contracted to } in. in diam. 
above, and dilated to } in. across the short funnel-shaped mouth, 
which has recurved bilobulate margins between the lobes, glabrous 
