814 ASCLEPIADEE (Brown). [ Ceropegia. 
on the margins, dull purple or purple-brown ; corona in the flowers 
seen much eaten by insects, but apparently the outer corona is 
cupular, with 5 acutely bifid lobes rising to the level of the top of 
the staminal column, ciliate and hairy within with long fine hairs ; 
inner corona-lobes 1 lin. long, linear or linear-spathulate, connivent- 
erect over the staminal column, with very revolute tips. 
Coast Recion: Stockenstrom Div. ; Maasdorp, in forest, Scully, 196! 
Eastern Recon: Natal; without precise locality, McKen! Sanderson ! also 
flower from a plant cultivated at Cape Town, Barkly ! 
In the Kew Herbarium is a copy of a drawing made by Mr. Sanderson (from 
which drawing the figure published by Dr. Schlechter would seem originally to 
have been also copied) in which the leaves are represented as subsessile, and as 
described above, but in another drawing of this species at Kew they are repre- 
sented as very distinctly petiolate. Dr. Schlechter described from the drawing 
only, but the Kew Herbarium contains a few loose leaves sent with a flower by 
McKen, which are as follows :—petiole 2-3 lin. long ; blade #1} in. long, + in. 
broad, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate to a very acute point, slightly subcordate at 
the rounded base, glabrous on both sides ; the largest leaf with Scully’s specimen is 
about 1 in. long and 3 in. broad, broadly ovate, and the peduncles are 2-4-flowered, 
but it otherwise seems the same species. 
9. C. Rendallii (N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 100) ; stem 
twining, or occasionally not more than 9-4 in. high and then erect, 
slender, glabrous ; leaves somewhat fleshy, glabrous or with a few 
scattered short hairs on both sides and with or without a short 
ciliation ; petiole 1-2 lin. long ; blade }~1 in. long and 4—} in. broad 
when ovate, 1-1} in. long and 13-3 lin. broad when linear or 
linear-oblong. obtuse and apiculate or acute ; peduncles 1—3-flowered, 
1-3 in. long, glabrous ; pedicels 1-2} lin. long, glabrous ; sepals 
3-1} lin. long, subulate, glabrous ; corolla-tube }—3 in. long, curved, 
globosely inflated and 14-1} lin. in diam. at the base, contracted to 
2 lin. in diam. above and dilated to 23-3 lin. in diam. at the 
funnel-shaped mouth, glabrous outside, thinly pilose with long fine 
hairs within, apparently dark purple at the base, but perhaps only 
inside, whitish above ; lobes very slender and claw-like at the erect 
basal half, inflexed, dilated and all united above into an umbrella- 
like canopy } in. in diam., raised 24-3 lin. above the mouth of the 
tube, with 10 rounded marginal lobes, which, together with the 
claws, are shortly ciliate, but the hairs are easily detached, app 
rently dark purple or green ; outer corona 3 lin. long, equalling the 
-staminal column, cup-like, apparently 5-angled, truncate or rising 
into very short deltoid lobes at the angles, glabrous ; inner corona- 
lobes } lin. long, erect, much overtopping the staminal column, 
laterally much flattened and about } lin. broad, broadly recurved- 
falcate, obtuse, dorsally connected at the base to the outer corona 
and seeming to form part of it, apparently scarcely incumbent on 
the backs of the anthers, glabrous. ©. Galpinii, Schlechter in Engl. 
orth xviii, Beibl. 45, 23; xx. Beibl. 51, 47, and Journ. Bot. 1897, 
