818 ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). [ Ceropegia. 
Coast Rrcion: Peddie Div. ; hills near Trumpeters Drift, 600 ft., Drége, 
4949! Fort Beaufort Div.? Koonap Heights, MacOwan, 794! Komgha Div. ; 
near Komgha, 2000 ft., Flanagan, .385! 
Eastern Recron: Natal; in the ‘‘Thorns” near Tugela River, McKen, 4! 
Gerrard, 1824! and without precise locality, Sanderson ! 
E. Meyer describes the corolla-lobes as being ‘‘ subciliate,” I do not find them 
so in his type specimen. The Natal specimens have much larger flowers than 
those from the other localities, but appear to be otherwise the same. The 
inflation of the corolla seems to disappear in the process of drying. Schlechter 
records it from the Transvaal, but I have not seen a specimen from there. 
14. C. Zeyheri (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxviii. 48); stem 
twining, branching, fleshy, glabrous, with the leaves reduced to 
ovate acute spreading scales ; cymes lateral at the nodes, peduncu- 
late, 2~-3-flowered; peduncle fleshy, 24-5 lin. long, glabrous ; 
pedicels 2-3 lin. long, glabrous ; sepals about 2 lin. long, lanceolate, 
acuminate, glabrous; corolla erect, about 14 in. long; tube sub- 
globosely inflated and 3 lin. in diam. at the base, narrowed and 
subcylindric above, puberulous outside, verrucose-spotted at the 
base and glabrous within; lobes connate at the tips, about } in. 
long, narrowly linear, dilated at the apex, puberulous except at the 
apex ; outer corona-lobes connate into a cup at the base, deeply 
bifid, with linear obtuse segments, glabrous; inner corona-lobes 
shortly exceeding the outer corona, erect, linear, with spathulately 
dilated obtuse tips, glabrous. 
i Ser or Centrat Reaion: Div.? Karoo by the Groote (Gamtoos) River, 
eyner. . 
Dr. Schlechter has suppposed the Groote River to be synonymous with the 
Vaal River, and has stated that the habitat is in the Transvaal, but this I believe 
to be an error. 
15. C. crassifolia (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 273) ; stem 
twining, apparently growing from a few inches up to 2 ft. high, 
fleshy and as much as } in. thick at the base, tapering upwards, 
glabrous ; lower leaves 2-4 in. long, the upper smaller, thick and 
fleshy, subsessile, 2-4} lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, 
channelled down the face, glabrous; cymes lateral at the upper 
nodes, pedunculate, about 3-5-flowered, glabrous in all parts 
except inside the corolla; peduncle 2-4 lin. long, stout; pedicels 
2-3 lin. long; sepals 2-2} lin. long, lanceolate-attenuate ; corolla 
of dried flowers 11-1] in. long ; tube 1-1} in. long, straight, with 
an ellipsoid or subobovoid inflation }-} in. in diam. at the. base, 
contracted to 2-24 lin. in diam. above and. gradually dilated into @ 
funnel-shaped mouth 4—5 lin. in diam., glabrous and whitish with 
dark purple-brown spots and lines outside, inside pilose with long 
fine curly hairs from the top of the inflated part to the mouth ; 
lobes 4-6 lin. long, connivent-erect, connate at the tips, narrowly 
lanceolate, replicate and 1}-2 lin. broad viewed sideways, glabrous 
and whitish spotted with purple on the back, the inner face closely 
