Ceropegia. | ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). 809 
outside and within, pale greenish, with the margin of the mouth, 
the veins in the throat and some markings at the top outside all 
dark violet-brown ; lobes free, regularly or irregularly pendulous 
around the tube (not erect as originally figured), #-Z in. long, 14—2 
lin. broad, linear-oblong, shortly acute, narrowed into a short stalk 
at the base, flat, with a row of large pits or depressions on each 
side of the midrib, light greenish yellow, glabrous on the back, 
shortly pubescent on the inner face and ciliate with yellow hairs ; 
outer corona arising } lin. up the staminal column, with 5 erect 
acutely bifid ovate lobes 1 lin. long, pouch-like at the base, rather 
densely villous on the inner face and ciliate with long fine hairs ; 
inner corona-lobes about 1} lin. long, narrowly linear, obtuse, con- 
nivent-erect over and much overtopping the staminal column. Harv. 
in Nat. Hist. Rev. vi. 515, t. 27; Bot. Mag. t. 5407; K. Schum. in 
Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 272, fig. 80, C ; Schlechier in 
Journ. Bot. 1897, 294. 
Eastern Reaion: Transkei ; Kreilis Country, Bowker, 12! Caffraria, Bowker ! 
2. C. sororia (Harv. ex Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5578) ; rootstock 
a cluster of thick fleshy spindle-shaped roots ; stem 1-1} ft. high, 
erect, simple or with 1 branch, glabrous ; leaves 1}—5} in. long, 
$—31 lin. broad, linear or narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute, slightly 
folded lengthwise, glabrous ; flowers solitary at the upper nodes ; 
pedicels usually 5-10 lin. long, or up to 2} lin. long on cultivated 
plants, glabrous ; sepals 2-3 lin. long, subulate, glabrous ; corolla- 
tube 1-1} in. long, }-} in. in diam. at the elongated-ovoid inflated 
base, tapering into the cylindric upper part, which is about } in. in 
diam., scarcely dilating at the 2—2} lin. wide mouth, glabrous outside 
and within, greenish-yellow at the base, densely dotted or suffused 
with violet on the other part or sometimes dotted all over ; lobes 
free, pendulous on the living plant, but on dried specimens often 
erectly spreading, straight, 3—} in. long, } in. broad, linear-oblong 
or narrowly lanceolate-oblong, acute, tapering into a short stalk at 
the base, somewhat replicate, blackish or purple-black, with a broad 
densely pubescent greyish-white line down the middle, giving off 
transverse bars on each side, according to the appearance of dried 
flowers and a note by Mr. Galpin, but according to the figure with 
2 rows of black spots on a green ground, densely ciliate with purple 
or purple and yellowish hairs; outer corona overtopping the 
staminal column, shortly cupular at the base, with 5 pairs of erect 
narrowly deltoid-lanceolate teeth 3 lin. long, villous-pubescent with 
rather long white hairs outside and on the inner face of the teeth, 
pale yellowish, with a few dark purple spots ; inner corona-lobes 
about 1} lin. long, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, connivent-erect over the 
staminal column, glabrous, pale yellowish ; follicles solitary (always ?), 
about 2 in. long and 2 lin. thick, narrowly fusiform, tapering into 
an acute beak, glabrous, smooth ; seeds 14 lin. long, j lin. broad, 
ovate, very pointed, concave on one side, very convex on the other, 
