Ceropegia. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 815 
Katauart Recion: Transvaal ; hills at Reimers Creek, near Barberton, Galpin, 
1251, Barberton, Miss Stainbank ! near Lydenburg, Schlechter, 3936 ! and without 
precise locality, Rendall ! 
My original description of the corona of this plant is entirely wrong, owing to 
the specimen examined having been very much crushed. The colour of the corona 
is probably white, but becomes stained with the purple of the corolla when the 
flower is placed in boiling water for dissection. Dr. Schlechter describes the ovate 
leaves as being $-13 in. long and 3-1} in. broad, I have not seen them so large. 
10. C. Sandersoni (Decne ex Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5792); 
‘roots tuberous similar to those of a Dahlia” (Gerrard); stem 
twining, 14-2 lin. thick, fleshy, glabrous, slightly rough to the 
touch ; leaves fleshy, glabrous ; petiole 1-3 lin. long, stout ; blade 
2-13 in. long, 4-1 in. broad, ovate-lanceolate to broadly cordate- 
ovate, acute or shortly cuspidate-acute, light green ; cymes with 
2-4 flowers, developed singly, glabrous ; peduncles 2-5 lin. long, 
14~2 lin. thick ; pedicels 3-5 lin. long, nearly or quite } in. thick, 
becoming stouter in fruit; sepals 3-34 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, 
narrowly oblong, acute, longitudinally folded, glabrous ; corolla-tube 
curved, 14-2 in. long, with an oblong inflation } in. in diam. at the 
base, narrowed above and enlarged to 3 or # in. in diam. at the 
funnel-shaped mouth, glabrous with the exception of a few hairs at 
the very base inside ; striped with green and white on the upper 
part outside and within, light green on the inflation outside, dull 
greyish- or purplish-green within, with numerous ribs, which 
abruptly terminate at the base of the purple contracted part ; lobes 
united into a flattish 5-keeled umbrella-like canopy 1{-1} in. in 
diam., supported on 5 short claws, with 5 broad obtuse slightly 
bifid marginal much arched lobes, ciliate with vibratile white hairs, 
its centre distinctly depressed, with a 6-pointed tubercle above 
and a 5-ribbed projection beneath, yellowish-green, spotted with 
light green above and with brighter green underneath, with 
the ribbed projection beneath and some spots around it blackish- 
purple ; outer corona } lin. long, cup-shaped, not pentagonal, 
truncate, entire, whitish, with the margin and at its junction with 
the inner corona-lobes purple-brown, ciliate with white hairs ; inner 
corona-lobes 14 lin. long, incumbent on the backs of the anthers, 
with erect filiform tips, recurved at the apex, dorsally connected to 
the outer corona at the base, glabrous, white ; follicles horizontally 
diverging, 3-54 in. long, 34-33 lin. thick, terete, tapering from 
about the middle to a slightly dilated umbonate apex about 2 lin. in 
diam., irregularly rugose and tuberculate, glabrous, green, stained 
with dull purplish. Gard. Chron. 1870, 173, fig. 29; Baill. Dict. 
Bot. t. 10; Rev. Hort. 1901, 111, fig. 39. ©. Sandersoniw, Hook. 
in Bot. Mag. under t. 6927. ©. Sandersonii, K. Schum. in. Engl. 
and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 273, fig. 80, B; Graebener in 
Monatssch. f. Kakt. x. 71 and 73, with fig.; N. E. Br. in. Gard. 
Chron. 1906, xl. 383, fig. 145; C. fimbriata, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 
1897, 294, not of Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 13, nor of E. Meyer. 
