816 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [ Ceropegia. 
Eastern Recon: Natal ; Tugela, Gerrard, 1798! McKen! and without precise 
locality, Sanderson ! Sutherland | and cultivated specimens ! 
Described from living plants. In Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 18, and in 
Journ. Bot. 1897, 294 C. Sandersoni is referred by Dr. Schlechter to C. fimbriata, 
E. Meyer, but the two species are totally different in foliage and floral structures, 
and it is evident from the localities quoted that he intended the name to apply to 
C. Sandersoni only. 
11. C. Monteiroz (Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 6927) ; stem twining, 
14-1} lin. thick, fleshy, glabrous, slightly rough to the touch ; leaves 
distant, shortly petiolate, }-2 in. long, 41-10 lin. broad, ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, rounded or subcordate at the base, fleshy, 
glabrous ; cymes shortly pedunculate or subsessile, 1—-2-flowered ; 
pedicels 3-4} lin. long, 1 lin. thick, becoming 2 lin. thick when in 
fruit, fleshy, glabrous ; sepals 3—4 lin. long, 4-3 lin. broad, linear, 
acute, longitudinally folded, glabrous ; corolla resembling that of 
C. Sandersoni ; tube 13-2 in. long, slightly curved, with a basal 
oblong inflation slightly constricted at the middle and } in. in diam., 
narrowed above, then dilated into a broad funnel-shaped mouth 
3_] in. in diam., glabrous outside and within except in the inflation, 
which is rugosely ribbed throughout and pubescent with spreading 
hairs on the basal half, green at the base, striped with green and 
white on the upper part ; lobes united into an umbrella-like convex 
canopy 14-1} in. in diam., supported on 5 short claws, with 5 obtusely 
bifid somewhat flattened (not arched nor strongly keeled) marginal 
lobes, ciliate with long vibratile purple hairs, its centre raisi 
above the margin, with a 6-pointed tubercle above and a 5-ribbed 
projection beneath, glabrous above and beneath, mottled with green 
and purplish-brown above and with bright green beneath on a 
whitish ground, the projecting centre being purple-black ; outer 
corona } lin. long, cup-shaped, pentagonal, with slightly projecting 
entire angles, yellow, marked with purple-brown where united to 
the inner corona-lobes and at the angles, ciliate with white hairs ; 
inner corona-lobes 2 lin. long, incumbent on the backs of the anthers, 
with erect filiform tips, revolute at the apex, dorsally connected to 
the outer corona at the base, glabrous, yellowish ; follicles widely 
diverging, 34-4 in. long, about 5 lin. thick, subterete, slightly 
tapering to a thick truncate apex, which is emarginate on the inner 
side, irregularly rugose and tuberculate, glabrous, greet, stain 
and speckled with dull purplish. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 294. 
Eastern RecIon: Delagoa Bay, Mrs. Monteiro, cultivated specimens ! 
Described from a living plant. 0. Monteirow may be distinguished from the 
closely allied C. Sandersoni, by the convex (not depressed-flattish and 5-keeled) 
top of the flower, and the flattish-roofed (not arched) openings between the wens’ 
The figure in the Botanical Magazine was drawn from immature flowers, whie 
become much larger than there represented. 
_ 12. G. fimbriata (E. Meyer, Comm. 194); stem twining, fleshy, 
glabrous ; leaves minute or small, {-3 lin. long, $—} lin. broad, 
lanceolate, acute, glabrous ; flowers solitary at the nodes ; peduncle 
