Ceropegia. | ASCLEPIADE# (Brown). 823 
21. C. Woodii (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 34); 
tuber subglobose, producing many slender pendent, prostrate or 
trailing glabrous stems 1—2 ft. long, which often bear small tubers 
and root at the nodes ; leaves fleshy ; petiole 14-4} lin. long ; blade 
$-2 in. long and as much in breadth, broadly ovate to orbicular, 
acute, or obtuse and apiculate, cordate at the base, glabrous on both 
sides, dark green with whitish veins; peduncles lateral at the 
nodes, 24—7 lin. long, slender, glabrous, 1—4- (usually 2-) flowered ; 
bracts minute; pedicels 1—} in. long, slender, glabrous; sepals 
3-1 lin. long, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate; corolla-tube very 
slightly curved, 7-9 (or when dried 6—7) lin. long, globosely inflated 
(or rarely the top of the inflation is pushed inwards or intruded), 
and about 2} lin. in diam. at the base, cylindric and 1-1} lin. in 
diam. above, enlarging to 2 lin. in diam. at the mouth, glabrous 
outside and nearly so within, pink or with darker lines on the basal 
part ; lobes 3-3) lin. long, connivent-erect, connate at the tips, 
narrowly spathulate from a deltoid base, replicate, blackish-purple, 
ciliate with long simple purple hairs and with similar hairs on the 
basal part of the inner face; outer corona of 5 small truncate 
pocket-like lobes } lin. long, alternating with the inner corona-lobes, 
shorter than the staminal column, glabrous, white ; inner corona- 
lobes 1-1} lin. long, subspathulate-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 
acute, connivent over the staminal column at the base, then erect, 
with recurved tips, dorsally adnate at the base to the outer corona, 
white, glabrous ; follicles diverging, 2-2? in. long, } in. thick, linear- 
terete, with a slender beak, smooth, glabrous ; seeds 24-2} lin. long, 
narrowly oblong from being longitudinally folded, rather broadly 
margined, smooth, glabrous, brown. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 
295; N. E. Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 7704; Gartenfl. 1901, t. 1486; 
Wood and Evans, Natal Plants, iv. t. 357; Roth in Monatssch. 
Kakt. xiii. 27. 0. Woodi, Mast. in Gard. Chron. 1897, xxii. 357-8, 
Jig. 104, and 1905, xxxvii. 244, fig. 103. 
Eastern Recron : Natal ; hanging from rocks on the Groen Berg, 2000 ft., 
Wood, 1317 ; Noods Berg, 2000-3000 ft., Wood, and cultivated specimens ! 
Described from living plants cultivated at Kew and Cambridge. There are two 
forms of this plant ; in one the corolla-lobes are erect and connivent at the connate 
tips only ; in another form they close together near the base, separating above, 
with connivent connate tips. 
22. C. Caffrorum (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1894, 358); stem 
twining, 4-1 lin. thick, glabrous; leaves spreading or deflexed, 
apparently fleshy, glabrous; petiole 3-13 lin. long; blade }— in. 
long, 3-3 lin. broad, linear, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate 
at the apex, cuneate, rounded or subcordate at the base; peduncles 
lateral at the nodes, }-} in. long, 2-5-flowered, glabrous ; bracts 
minute; flowers developing successively ; pedicels }—} in. long; 
sepals 1-1} lin. long, lanceolate-subulate, with very acute recurved 
tips, glabrous; corolla-tube 7-8 lin. long, ovoid-inflated and (in 
dried flowers) 1-1} lin. in diam. at the base, cylindric above and 
