Ceropegia. | ASCLEPIADEA! (Brown). 813 
tapering into the cylindric } in. in diam. part above, and dilated 
to 2-% in. across the funnel-shaped mouth, glabrous outside, 
pubescent inside at the mouth and basal part with white curly 
hairs, pale greenish-white, spotted with violet at the base and 
upper part; lobes free, recurved-spreading, #-1} in. long, linear 
from a deltoid base, acute, replicate, pubescent on the lower part 
of the inner surface, white, with the margins and apical part violet- 
purple or dark purple-brown ; outer corona about 1 lin. high and 
slightly exceeding the staminal column, cup-like with 5 pairs of 
short erect acute teeth, pubescent inside and ciliate all round the 
margin with rather long hairs, alternately marked with broad 
yellow and dark purple-brown stripes ; inner corona-lobes 1} lin. 
(or more?) long, incumbent on the backs of the anthers at the base, 
then connivent into an erect column with shortly recurved tips, 
dorsally connected to the outer corona at the base, glabrous, yellow, 
with a dark purple-brown stripe down the middle of the basal part. 
Bot. Mag. t. 3567 ; Maund, Bot. iv. t. 154; @. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 
112; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 890 ; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 643; Fl. des 
Serres, ii. June, t. 4; Rev. Hort. 1869, 25, fig. 6, and 1901, 109, fig. 
37 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 294. C. stapeliiformis, K. Schum. 
in Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 270, fig. 80, D. 
SourH Arrica; without locality, Thunberg ! 
Coast Recion: Uitenhage Div. ; among shrubs on the banks of the Zwartkops 
River, Zeyher, 36! Albany Div. ; by the Fish River, Bowker! Fort Beaufort 
Div. ; banks of the Koonap River, Mrs. Barber, 85! King Williamstown Div. ; 
near King Williamstown, Barkly ! 
CentRaL REGION: Somerset Div. ; Bruintjes Hoogte, MacOwan! Cradock 
Div. ; near Cradock, Cooper, 492! Graaff Reinet Div. ; Magazine Hill, near Graaff 
Reinet, 2700 ft., Bolus, 422 ! 
Described from living plants. 
8. C. Haygarthii (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxviii. 46, fig. 7A); 
stem climbing, fleshy, 14—2 lin. thick, glabrous ; leaves small, fleshy, 
flat, }-2 in. long, 1-} in. broad (see note below), ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate ; cymes 1-2-flowered, lateral at the nodes ; 
peduncles 3-14 in. long, glabrous ; bracts 1-2 lin. long, subulate ; 
pedicels 5-7 lin. long, glabrous; sepals 5lin. (24 lin., Schlechter) 
long, subulate, glabrous ; corolla abruptly bent at a right-angle near 
the base ; tube (following the bend) about 1} in. long according to a 
drawing, or about 1 in. long in dried flowers, globosely inflated at 
the base, cylindric above, enlarging according to a drawing to about 
3 in. in diam. at the mouth, pinkish-white or greenish tinted, spotted 
with violaceous, glabrous outside, pilose with very fine long hairs 
within ; lobes free at the base, abruptly inflexed over the mouth of 
the tube and produced beneath into broad triangular partition-like 
green plates or keels, meeting at the centre and connate into a 
slender erect column 5-7 lin. long, then again becoming free and ex- 
panding into elliptic-lanceolate replicate segments connate at the tips, 
forming a small apical ellipsoid cage-like body 24-3 lin. long, ciliate 
