Ceropegia. | ASCLEPIADEA (Brown). 825 
24. C. africana (R. Br. in Bot. Reg. t. 626); rootstock a tuber ; 
stem }—I ft. long, twining, glabrous ; leaves fleshy, glabrous ; petiole 
1-2 lin. long ; blade 4-1 in, long, 1-} in. broad, varying from ovate 
to linear-lanceolate, acute, mucronate or apiculate, rounded or 
broadly subcuneate at the base ; cymes pedunculate, lateral at the 
nodes, 2~3-flowered ; peduncles 1-3 lin. long, glabrous ; pedicels 1-2 
lin. long, glabrous ; sepals } lin. long, } lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, 
acute, glabrous; corolla-tube 7-8 lin. long, straight, globosely 
inflated and about 2 lin. in diam. at the base, } lin. in diam. above, 
widening to 2} Jin. in diam. at the funnel-shaped mouth, glabrous 
outside and within, greenish, striate with violet-brown above ; lobes 
3-3} (or according to the figure about 5) lin. long, straight, 
connivent-erect, connate at the tips, linear from a deltoid base, not 
enlarged at the apex, replicate, keeled down the inner face, glabrous 
on the back, dark violet-brown, ciliate on the margins and keel with 
dark purple hairs ; outer corona cup-shaped, exceeding the staminal 
column, with 5 broad 3-crenate or broadly rounded erect lobes 
scarcely 4 lin. long, alternating with the anthers; inner corona- 
lobes ? lin. long, erectly connivent over the staminal column, 
recurved at the apex, much compressed laterally, broadly falcate, 
very obtuse, 4 lin. broad, channelled on the inner and acute on the 
outer edge, dorsally connected at the base to the outer corona 
between its lobes. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 906; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 
842; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 110; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 890; Deene in 
DC. Prodr. viii. 642; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 294, excl. syn. 
and localities. 
Soutu AFRica : without locality, cultivated specimen ! 
The very broad faleate inner corona-lobes and entire absence of hairs within the 
corolla-tube are distinctive characters of this species. According to Dr. Schlechter 
in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 12, a specimen collected near Komgha, in Komgha 
Div. by Flanagan (714) belongs to this species, but I have not seen the specimen 
and doubt the identification ; it may be C. linearis, E. Meyer, as in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxi, Beibl, 54, 13, Schlechter refers that species to C. africana, 
25. C. euryacme (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxviii. 46); stem 
twining, filiform, glabrous; leaves spreading, somewhat fleshy, 
glabrous on both sides ; petiole 2-3 lin. long; blade }~1 in. long, 
24-4 lin. broad at or below the middle, lanceolate or lanceolate- 
oblong, acute or acuminate ; peduncles lateral at the nodes, about as 
long as the petioles, 1-2-flowered, glabrous ; pedicels about 1} lin. 
long, glabrous ; sepals 1} lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous ; 
corolla-tube about } in. long, subglobosely inflated and 2 lin. in 
diam. at the base, narrower above and slightly enlarged at the 
mouth, glabrous outside, puberulous on the lower half within ; lobes 
2 lin. long, linear from the base, elliptically dilated at the apex, 
puberulous on the inner face; outer corona cupular, somewhat 
inconspicuously 5-lobed, glabrous ; inner corona-lobes much exceed- 
ing the outer corona, linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, glabrous. C. Woodii, 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 49, not elsewhere. 
