824 ASCLEPIADEA (Brown). [ Ceropegia. 
scarcely or but slightly widened at the mouth, glabrous and green 
with purple lines (Wood) outside, thinly covered with very fine long 
hairs within ; lobes 3-34 lin, long, straight, connivent-erect, connate 
at the enlarged tips, linear-spathulate, replicate, blackish-purple, 
ciliate throughout with short dark purple or violet hairs, otherwise 
glabrous ; outer corona with pouch-like entire lobes alternating with 
the anthers, much shorter than the staminal column, but rising to its 
top behind the inner corona-lobes in deltoid-ovate obtuse lobes, 
glabrous ; inner corona-lobes connivent-erect high above the staminal 
column or sometimes connate into a column, #~1 lin. long, spathu- 
late-lanceolate, flat, with recurved or hooked tips, glabrous. 
Schlechter in Journ, Bot, 1897, 295. 
Var. 8, dubia (N. E. Br.) ; stems 1-14 lin. thick, occasionally twining, but 
usually weak, trailing or pendulous and straight, without the least signs of 
twining ; leaves $~J in. long, }-3 in. broad, rather broadly triangular-ovate, very 
acute, slightly cordate at the base, slightly fleshy, undulate at the margins, deep 
green with impressed slightly darker veins ; inner corona-lobes not recurved at the 
tips ; otherwise as in the type. 
Eastern Reaion: Natal; near Durban, Wood, 5376 (ex Schlechter), and with- 
out number, Wood! Var. 8: Delagoa Bay, specimens cultivated at Kew, sent by 
Mrs. Monteiro ! 
The Delagoa Bay variety is very different from the type in habit, but does not 
appear to differ in its flowers. 
23. C. assimilis (N. E. Br.) ; stems 1-2 ft. long, twining at the 
upper part, rather slender, simple or with 1 branch at or near the 
base, glabrous ; leaves fleshy, flattish, shortly petiolate, }-1} in. long, 
1-4} lin. broad, linear to lanceolate, acute, glabrous ; cymes lateral 
at the upper nodes, pedunculate, 2—4-flowered ; peduncles }—? in. 
long, glabrous ; bracts minute ; pedicels 14-3 lin. long, glabrous ; 
sepals I lin. long, narrowly lanceolate, acute, glabrous ; corolla-tube 
apparently nearly straight, 3 in. long, with an ellipsoid (or sub- 
globose ?) inflation } in, in diam. at the base, about } lin. in. diam. 
above, enlarged to } in. in diam. at the funnel-shaped mouth, 
apparently greenish, glabrous outside, thinly sprinkled with very 
fine hairs within except at the inflated base ; lobes 34-4 lin. long, 
narrowly linear from a small deltoid base, connivent-erect, connate 
at the tips, keeled down the inner face, with undulated margins, 
glabrous or perhaps with a few hairs at the base of the keel, 
apparently purplish-tinted ; outer corona } lin. long, cup-shaped, 
with the margin of its pocket-like divisions truncate, glabrous ; 
inner corona-lobes about 1 lin. long, triquetrous-filiform, acute, 
connivent over the style-apex at the basal half, then strongly 
recurved-spreading at the tips high above the outer corona, to which 
they are dorsally connected by their narrow partition-like keels, 
glabrous. 
Coast Recion: Albany Div. ; without precise locality, Bowker ! 
The hairs within the corolla-tube can only be observed in dried flowers under 4 
strong lens, and are invisible when wet. 
