820 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Ceropegua. 
glabrous ; petiole 2—4 lin. long ; blade 2-1? in. long, $—14 in. broad, 
ovate, elliptic or orbicular, acute or obtuse and apiculate, cuneate, 
rounded or subcordate at the base ; peduncles obsolete or up to 4 in. 
long, 1 lin. thick, 1—-2-flowered; bracts minute ; pedicels 4-1 in. 
long, } lin. thick, glabrous; sepals 1-4 in. long, linear-subulate, 
glabrous ; corolla-tube curved (often straight in dried specimens), 
14-2 in. long, cylindrically or oblong-inflated for 4-3 in. and 
24-3 lin. in diameter at the base, 1-14 lin. in diam. above and 
dilated to } in. or more in diam. at the funnel-shaped mouth, out- 
side glabrous, pale greenish below, whitish above, dotted or spotted 
with dark purple, inside pilose with white hairs at the base and 
upper part, glabrous elsewhere ; lobes 3-1} in. long, connivent-erect, 
connate at the tips, linear from a 4~5 lin.-broad (when flattened 
out) deltoid base, closely replicate so as to form pocket-like 
openings between them, keeled down the inner face, purple-brown 
crossed by a broad transverse white band at the base, above passing 
into bright green or first into blackish-green and then to bright 
green, thinly hairy on the inner face below and ciliate to nearly half- 
way up with fine soft spreading hairs, glabrous above, but ciliate with 
long vibratile clavate purple hairs ; outer corona } lin. long, shorter 
than the staminal column, obtusely pentagonal or 5-lobed seen from 
above, pale yellowish-green ; lobes pouch-like, shortly bifid, truncate 
or broadly rounded, glabrous ; inner corona-lobes 1} lin. long, sub- 
linear or linear-spathulate, acute or obtuse, incumbent on the backs 
of the anthers at the base, then erect in a column, glabrous, pale 
yellowish-green. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 294. 
Coast Recion : Komgha Div. ; prostrate under bush near Kei Bridge, 2000 ft., 
Flanagan, 384! and cultivated specimen | 
Described from a living plant cultivated at Kew. 
18. C. brachyceras (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxviii. 45) ; stem 
twining, slightly fleshy, glabrous; leaves spreading or erectly- 
spreading, subsessile, slightly fleshy, 2-23 in. long, }-1 in. broad, 
lanceolate-elliptic, lanceolate-oblong or sometimes ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, glabrous; cymes lateral at the nodes, pedunculate, few- 
flowered ; peduncle about 24 lin. long, glabrous ; pedicels about as 
long as the peduncle, glabrous; sepals scarcely more than % 1. 
long, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous ; corolla-tube about % In. long, 
subglobosely inflated and about } in. in diam. at the base, 
subeylindric above, glabrous outside, puberulous within ; lobes 
4 in. long, connate at the tips, lanceolate, pilose on both sides, 
more or less undulate on the margins; outer corona shortly 
cupular, with 5 subquadrate lobes slightly bifid at the apex, 
glabrous ; inner corona-lobes linear, acute, scarcely exceeding the 
outer corona, : 
KataHart Rxoion: Bechuanaland; near Maritzani, Duparquet 432 (ex 
Schlechter). 
