Ceropegia. | ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 821 
19. C. setifera (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 48); stem 
several ft. long, twining, thinly and minutely pubescent along one side 
or glabrous ; leaves herbaceous ; petiole 3-10 lin. long, minutely 
pubescent in the channel only ; blade 1-34 in. long, 3-1? in. broad, 
elliptic or elliptic-oblong, or the smaller sometimes lanceolate, 
acuminate, acute, or ohtuse and apiculate, rounded or subcordate at 
the base, sometimes faintly sinuous at the margins, thinly pube- 
rulous (or glabrous, see note below) on both sides, very minutely 
adpressed-ciliate ; peduncles lateral at the nodes, slender, ultimately 
1-1? in. long, glabrous, racemosely 2—4-noded, with 2 flowers at a 
node, developing successively ; pedicels }-} in. long, glabrous ; sepals 
1}-14 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, very slightly pubescent ; 
corolla-tube slightly curved, 3 in. long, slightly ovoid-inflated and 
2-2} lin. in diam. at the base, which gradually narrows into the 
s in. in diam. cylindric part above, enlarging to about din. in diam. 
at the mouth, glabrous outside, pilose within to the base with very 
fine hairs, invisible when wetted, apparently dark purple-brown or 
perhaps spotted with that colour at the base, shading into greenish 
above; lobes 24-3 lin. long, connivent or incurved-connivent, 
connate at the tips, deltoid-lanceolate, deltoid-ovate, or oblong- 
ovate, tapering to the apex, replicate, 4—} lin. broad across the 
side, ciliate with long pale purple or white hairs along the fold or 
keel of the inner face, otherwise glabrous and apparently greenish 
or yellowish, with slightly darker edges ; outer corona very shortly 
cupular at the base rising behind the inner corona-lobes into 
5 cuneately subquadrate lobes } lin. long, with the shoulders pro- 
duced into 2 widely spreading deltoid or deltoid-linear acute or 
obtuse teeth at the top, ciliate and hairy on the inner face with 
long white hairs ; inner corona-lobes 14-1} lin. long, triquetrous- 
subulate or compressed linear-falcate acute (or obtuse in Schlechter, 
4543, see note below), connivent-erect, with falcately recurving or 
diverging tips, dorsally connected at the base with the outer corona, 
glabrous, dark purple-brown. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 295; 
N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 457. 
. Var. £, natalensis (N. E. Br.); petiole 2-8 lin. long, puberulous all round ; 
blade 1-34 in. long, 4-14 in. broad, linear-lanceolate, lanceolate or oblong- 
lanceolate, acute or obtusely pointed and apiculate, rounded or rarely subcordate 
at the base, puberulous on both sides; peduncles ultimately 3-2 in. long, 
racemosely 3-6-noded ; pedicels 4-1 in. long; sepals about 1 lin. long; corolla 
“‘ green with brown markings” (Wood); tube about 3 in. long; inner corona- 
lobes 3-1 lin. long ; follicles very widely divergent or slightly reflexed, 34-3 in. 
long and about % in. thick, linear-terete, tapering into a slender beak, smooth, 
glabrous, marked with short violaceous lines on a pale ground. 
Katanari Reqion: Transvaal ; second water between og dm and Sibthorps, 
Burtt Davy, 1619! Masetana Valley, near Shiluvane, /unod, 1021! near 
Barberton, Thorncroft (cultivated specimen in Herb. Wood, 10289)! : 
Eastern Recion: Var. 8: Natal; in thorny bush near the Tugela River, 
Gerrard, 1825! Umbhloti River, Wood, 1318! near Durban, Wood, 8261! 
This species is closely allied to C. carnosa, E. Meyer, but readily distinguished 
by its much larger leaves, it was originally collected by Dr. Schlechter in Tropical 
