Ceropegia. | ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 819 
reticulated with dark purple-brown on a cream-coloured or yellowish 
ground, or in dried flowers often appearing entirely purple-brown, 
sparsely covered with long purple hairs on the basal part and ciliate 
with them on the keel to the middle or beyond ; outer corona cup- 
shaped #-1} lin. deep, with 5 large erect lobes, }—} lin. long and 
3-1 lin. broad, truncate, very broadly rounded or notched at the 
top, glabrous ; inner corona-lobes }—} lin. long, linear, connivent, 
shortly exceeding the anthers, but scarcely rising to the level of the 
outer corona, and dorsally connected at the base to the latter by 
vertical partitions, glabrous. 
Sout Arrica: without locality, specimen cultivated in Cape Town Botanic 
Garden ! 
Coast Reeion: Uitenhage Div. ; in dry stony places, Zeyher! ‘‘ Korotra Hill, 
Uitenhage,” Prior! King Williamstown Div. ; near King Williamstown, 1500 ft., 
Sim, 312! Div. ? Chaka River, a tributary of the Fish River, Mrs. Barber ! 
EasTeRN Reaion : Natal ; Springvale, Miss Button in Herb, Sanderson, 2003 ! 
I describe the colour of the flowers from a drawing at Kew of the Natal 
specimen by Mr. Sanderson. 
16. C. crispata (N. E. Br.) ; rootstock a cluster of fleshy spindle- 
shaped roots ; stem solitary, climbing, glabrous; leaves (only one 
seen) fleshy, flat ; petiole 2 lin. (or more?) long; blade 14 in. long, 
4 in. broad or larger, lanceolate, acute, cuneate at the base, wavy at 
the scabrous-denticulate margins, glabrous on both sides; cymes 
lateral at the nodes, 4-5-flowered ; peduncle } in. long in the only 
example seen, glabrous; bracts 1-2 lin. long, subulate; pedicels 
about 2 lin. long, glabrous ; sepals about 2 lin. long, lanceolate- 
subulate, glabrous ; corolla-tube 1-1} in. long, somewhat abruptly 
bent above the ellipsoid-inflated base (which in the larger of 
2 flowers is 7 lin. long and 5 lin. broad), cylindric and 14-2 lin. in 
diam. above, enlarging to 4—5 lin. in diam. at the mouth, glabrous 
and whitish marked with elongated violet spots outside, inside 
covered with long white hairs except in the inflated part ; lobes 
5-6 lin. long, erect, connate at the tips, replicate, 11-1? lin. broad 
across the side, oblong when flattened out, apparently blackish- 
purple or perhaps veined with that colour on a paler ground, 
fringed on the margins and keel and covered on the inner face of 
the basal half with long simple purple hairs; outer corona cupular 
at the base, 5-lobed, glabrous ; lobes } lin. long, oblong, deeply bifid, 
concave, rising to or above the level of the staminal column ; inner 
corona-lobes about } lin. long, linear, acute, incumbent on the backs 
of the anthers and shortly produced beyond them, dorsally con- 
nected at the base with the outer corona, glabrous. 
Kavanari Reaion: Orange River Colony or Griqualand West ; near the Vaal 
River, very rare, Mrs. Barber, 675! 
17. C. radicans (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 12); 
stems prostrate, creeping, with fibrous roots at the nodes, fleshy, 
% in. or more (about 1 lin. when dried) thick ; leaves thick, fleshy, 
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