822 ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). [ Ceropegia. 
Transvaal, and of the two specimens he quotes, I have only seen his 4543 from 
Valdezia, which, although named by himself, does not agree with his description, 
as the leaves are not ‘‘sparsely pilose” but glabrous on both sides, and on the 
lobes of the outer corona (which are described as ‘‘ deeply bifid at the apex, with 
the lanceolate lobules divaricate-falcate setaceous-acuminate ”’) I can find no trace 
of a setaceous point ; they are exactly as described above for the Transvaal 
specimens, with which it is evidently conspecific, although differing from those 
quoted in its glabrous leaves and more compressed and therefore broader inner 
corona-lobes, all other characters being the same, and similar variations occur in 
other species. The variety natalensis may prove to be a distinct species, its 
narrower leaves giving it a different appearance, but a comparison of the living 
plants is needed to decide this point. 
20. C. carnosa (E. Meyer, Comm. 193) ; stem twining, glabrous ; 
leaves thick and fleshy (thin, when dried), glabrous ; petiole 4-1 in. 
long ; blade }—1 in. long, }—1 in. broad, lanceolate or ovate, rarely 
elliptic or rounded, usually acute or acuminate, or, in the rounded 
forms, obtuse or emarginate, rounded at the base; cymes peduncu- 
late, lateral at the nodes, with 2-5 successively developed flowers ; 
peduncle 1-2 in. long, below the often elongated flowering part, 
glabrous ; pedicels 1-4 in. long, glabrous or with here and there a 
hair ; sepals 14-13 lin. long, }-3 lin. broad, subulate, glabrous or 
with a few scattered hairs ; corolla-tube about 7 lin. long, curved 
above the (slightly in the dried state) inflated base, cylindric and 
14-1} lin. in diam. above, widening to about 3} lin. in diam. at the 
mouth, or in some dried specimens apparently only slightly broader 
at the mouth, glabrous outside, hairy at the base and upper part, 
but glabrous at the middle part within ; lobes 24-3 lin. long, 1} lin. 
broad at the base, oblong-ovate, replicate, connivent or incurved- 
connivent, tapering to and connate at the tips, finely ciliate with | 
white hairs (not easily seen in some dried specimens) on the upper 
part ; outer corona of 10 teeth }—4 lin. long, adnate in pairs to the 
base of the inner corona-lobes, subhorizontally divergent and curved 
towards the teeth of other pairs so that the tips of 2 adjacent teeth 
nearly or quite meet, leaving a large opening below them, revealing 
the fissure between the anther-wings, hairy on the inner face ; inner 
corona-lobes 1—1} lin. long, compressed or filiform-subulate, con- 
nivent at the base, then erect, with recurved slightly thickened 
tips, glabrous or more or less hairy at the base, apparently white. 
Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 891; Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 645 ; Schlechter 
Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 12 and 23; xxi. Beibl. 54, 13, and 
Journ. Bot. 1897, 294. 
Coast Recion: Uitenhage Div. ; near the Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 654! near 
Uitenhage, Schlechter, 2494! Bathurst Div.; between Kowie hiver and Kap 
River, Drege, 4946! between Bushmans River and Karega River, Zeyher, 841! 
3389 ! by the Kowie River, Atherstone! Albany Div. ; near Blauw Krantz, Mrs. 
Barber, 13! Komgha Div. ; near Komgha, 2000 ft., Flanagan, 1037 ! near Ket 
Bridge, 1800 ft., Flanagan, 1037 ! 
CENTRAL REGION: Somerset Div.; at the foot of Bosch Berg, 2000 ft., 
MacOwan, 924! 
Eastern Recion: Transkei; Fort Bowker, Bowker, 545! Natal; Inanda, 
Wood, 869! Haygarth in Herb. Wood, 7535! Zululand, Wood, 10288 ! 
