Ceropegia. | ASCLEPIADEA: (Brown). 817 
0 or exceedingly short ; pedicel about } in. long, moderately stout, 
glabrous ; sepals 2-24 lin. long, } lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, 
glabrous ; corolla-tube 14 in. or more long, apparently curved at 
about the middle, globose-inflated and } in. in diam. at the base, 
cylindric and } in. in diam. above, funnel-shaped in the upper part 
and about 4 in. in diam. at the mouth, glabrous outside and within, 
but densely tuberculate on the inside of the inflated part ; lobes 
connate into a shortly conical umbrella-like canopy about } in. long, 
supported on 5 short broad claws with their margins inrolled, 
scarcely keeled down the middle of the dilated part, margin of the 
canopy 10-crenate, fringed with long vibratile clavate purple hairs, 
otherwise glabrous ; outer corona-lobes 1-1} lin. long, very deeply 
divided into 2 linear-filiform subparallel segments, incurved-hooked 
at the tips; inner corona-lobes about 1} lin. long, slightly over- 
topping the outer corona, linear-subulate, connivent-erect. Dietr. 
Syn. Pl. ii. 891; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 645 ; Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 13, exel. synonym. 
Coast Reaion: Peddie Div. ; on dry stony hills near the Fish River not far 
from Trumpeters Drift, 600 ft., Drége, 4948! 
The colour of the flowers is not determinable from the only dried specimen 
(the type) seen. Dr. Schlechter has mistaken C. Sandersoni, Decne, for this 
species, but the two are totally different. 
13. C. ampliata (E. Meyer, Comm. 194) ; stem succulent, twining 
or scrambling, leafless at the time of flowering, glabrous ; leaves 
only seen at the young tips of the stems, soon deciduous, minute, 
1-14 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, glabrous ; flowers 2-4 together at 
the nodes, successively developed ; pedicels 3-7 lin. long, glabrous ; 
sepals 12—2} lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous ; corolla-tube 
in dried specimens 1-2 in. long, 4-6 lin. in diam., cylindric and 
slightly or not at all inflated at the base, but on the living plant, 
according to a drawing, 2 in. long, globosely and somewhat lobulate- 
inflated and about 1 in. in diam. at the base, cylindric and } in. in 
diam. above, not dilated at the apex, pale green, with a narrow 
purple transverse band at the top of the inflation inside, glabrous 
outside, covered inside with long simple hairs, longer and more 
matted at the purple band and above than in the lower part ; 
lobes 4-6 lin. long, 24-3 lin. broad at the base, lanceolate from a 
deltoid base, acute, erectly connivent and connate at the tips, 
replicate or with reflexed margins, glabrous on both sides and not 
ciliate, green, spotted with darker green, becoming olive-brown when 
dried, probably with a velvety sheen on the inner surface ; outer 
corona cup-shaped, equally 10-toothed ; teeth 3—} lin. long, narrowly 
deltoid, acute, hairy on the inner surface ; inner corona-lobes 2-24 
lin. long, very slenderly filiform, connivent-erect, dorsally-connected 
by vertical plates to the outer corona at the base. Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 
891; Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 645; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. 
xviii. Beibl. 45, 12; xx. Beibl. 51, 49; xxi. Beibl. 54, 13, and Journ. 
Bot. 1897, 294. 
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