810 ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). | Ceropegia. 
rugose on both sides, dark brown. K. Schum. in Engl. and Praunil, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 272 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 294. 
Coast REGION: Queenstown Div. ; Lesseyton Nek, near Queenstown, Galpin, 
1966 ! Bathurst or Albany Div. ; hills on the east side of Bushmans River, Ecklon 
and Zeyher ! 
EasteRN Recion: Transkei, Mrs. Barber, 15! Bowker! and cultivated 
specimen ! 
The dense ciliation on the corolla-lobes is badly represented in the figure 
quoted. 
8. C. tomentosa (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 33) ; 
stem 1 ft. or more? high, glabrous; leaves ascending, 24-33 in. 
long, 4-14 lin. broad, linear, acute, glabrous ; flowers solitary at the 
upper nodes, erect ; pedicels 3-5 lin. long, slender, glabrous ; sepals 
4-1 in. long, subulate, glabrous ; corolla-tube (dried) 3— in. long, 
with an obovoid basal inflation 2} lin. in diam., abruptly contracted 
into the 1-1} lin. in diam. cylindric part, and dilating to 3 lin. in 
diam. at the shortly funnel-shaped mouth, where the margin 
angularly projects between the lobes like 5 small pockets, glabrous 
and smooth outside and within, pale greenish or yellowish-green, 
with darker veins on the inflated part and dotted with purple- 
brown along the veins on the other part ; lobes free, erect, slightly 
diverging at the tips, 1-1} in. long, linear from a deltoid base, 
replicate, at least in the lower half; yellowish-green, densely 
tomentose with short curled or interwoven yellow hairs on the inner 
face, and ciliate for the space of about # lin. with dense tufts of 
stout subclavate red hairs, about 2 lin. above the base; outer 
corona 4 in. long, and not exceeding the staminal column, very 
shortly cupular at the base, with 5 erect deeply bifid lobes or pairs 
of deltoid-lanceolate acute teeth } lin. long, bearded at the tips on 
the inner face with long white hairs ; inner corona-lobes 1 lin. long, 
linear or subspathulate-linear, connivent-erect, dorsally connec 
with the outer corona at the base and forming a small tubercle 
between the outer corona-lobes, glabrous, apparently purple-brown 
on the basal half and where united to the outer corona, elsewhere 
the Dia: corona is white or yellowish. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 
1897, 294. 
Eastern Recon: Transkei; near Butterworth, Bowker! Bashee Ridge, near 
Fort Bowker, Bowker, 372! Mrs. Barber, 372! 
4. C. scabriflora (N. E. Br.) ; rootstock a cluster of thick fleshy 
fusiform roots 2-3} in. long; stem solitary, erect, simple or with 
1 branch at the top, about 1 ft. high, scarcely 1 lin. thick, glabrous ; 
leaves in 6-7 pairs, suberect, 1-2 in. long, }-1 lin. broad, linear, 
acute, with recurved margins, glabrous; flowers 1 or 2 to a stem, 
solitary, lateral at a subterminal node and terminal, erect ; pedicels 
4-1 in. long, minutely pubescent or subglabrous ; sepals 23-3 lin. 
long, lanceolate-subulate, glabrous; corolla-tube {-1 in. long, 
