Ceropegia. | ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). 811 
globose-inflated and 1-} in. in diam. at the densely papillate- 
scabrous base, abruptly contracted into the } in. in diam. smooth 
cylindric upper part, about 2-24 lin. in diam. at the mouth, 
glabrous outside and within, but papillate within the inflated part, 
yellowish-green, apparently veined with purplish at the mouth ; 
lobes free, spreading, 3-1} in. long, narrowly linear or replicate- 
filiform from a short deltoid 1-1} lin.-broad base, pubescent with 
very fine purple hairs on the inner face and adorned with a tuft of 
stout clavate ruby-purple hairs near the base ; outer corona arising 
about } lin. up and overtopping the staminal column, | lin. long, 
shortly cupular at the base, with 5 broad deltoid acute (but at the 
same time bifid with short contiguous teeth), lobes 2 lin. long, 
resembling in side view a funnel-shaped 5-lobed cup, ciliate and 
minutely pubescent inside, blackish-purple; inner corona-lobes 
{-1 lin. long, linear or slightly spathulate-linear, incumbent on the 
backs of the anthers at the base, then connivent-erect in a column, 
dorsally connected to the outer corona and thinly pubescent at the 
base, glabrous above, blackish-purple. 
Eastern ReEGIon: Natal ; near Verulam, 800 ft.; Wood, 7908 ! 
5. C. antennifera (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 46) ; 
tuber depressed-globose, 1 in. or more in diam. ; stem solitary, 
erect, 5-6 in. (or more?) high, 2 lin. thick, simple, glabrous ; leaves 
in 5-6 pairs, erect, the lower very small, the upper 3-1} in. long, 
3~} lin. broad, linear-filiform, acute, glabrous ; flowers solitary, 
lateral at the 1-2 upper nodes, and terminal, erect, much over- 
topping the stem; pedicels i-14 in. long, glabrous; sepals } in. 
long, subulate, very acute, glabrous; corolla-tube 14 in. long, 
slightly inflated and about 2 lin. in diam. at the base, cylindric 
and 1 lin. in diam. above, becoming 1} lin. in diam. at the mouth, 
glabrous and striped with purple-brown and white outside, pilose 
with fine purple hairs within; lobes free, 2-2} in. long, erectly 
spreading, resembling the antenne of a butterfly, } lin. broad and 
bearded with purple hairs on the inner face of the linear-lanceolate 
base, filiform and glabrous above, with the tips dilated into a small 
knob, slightly notched at the apex and grooved on each side of a 
prominent keel on the inner face; “ corona blackish-violet, outer 
lobes truncate at the apex with the margin on each side produced 
into a short acute tooth, ciliate; inner lobes erect, linear, acute, 
with the apex reflexed, much overtopping the outer lobes” (ex 
Schlechter), Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 295. 
Eastern Rxeion ; Natal ; near Newcastle, 4100 ft., Schlechter, 3426 ! 
Of this I have only seen a part of the type in the Herbarium of Dr. Bolus, from 
which the corona had been removed for description. 
6. C. Rudatisii (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xl. 94) ; rootstock a 
tuber (Wood) ; stem solitary, simple, erect, 5-6 (about 20, Schlechter) 
in. high, 2 lin. thick at the base, glabrous (glaucescent, Schlechter) ; 
