Ceropegia. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 827 
glabrous, apparently white or yellowish ; inner corona-lobes 3 lin. 
long, connivent-erect, spathulate-lanceolate, from a filiform base, 
recurved at the acute tips, glabrous, apparently white. 
EAstTEeRN REGION: Natal; Tugela, Gerrard, 1799 ! 
According to Gerrard, the leaves and stem are eaten by the Kaffirs. The 
flowers may have been greenish. 
28. C. obscura (N. E. Br.) ; stem twining, slender, thinly pube- 
scent, chiefly near the nodes; leaves (only a few from the upper 
part of the stem seen, probably larger below), fleshy ; petiole 1-14 
lin. long, puberulous ; blade 1-4 in. long, 2—4 lin. broad, lanceolate, 
ovate-lanceolate or oblong, acute or obtuse and apiculate, minutely 
and sparsely ciliate, otherwise glabrous ; cymes lateral at the nodes, 
3—5-flowered ; peduncles about } in. long, thinly puberulous ; bracts 
minute ; pedicels 14-1? lin. long, puberulous ; sepals #—1 lin. long, 
lanceolate, acuminate, puberulous ; corolla-tube slightly curved, ? in. 
long, with an ellipsoid inflation about 2 lin. in diam. at the base, 
cylindric and scarcely 1 lin. in diam. above, scarcely enlarging at 
the mouth, puberulous outside and sprinkled with some very fine 
curly hairs at the middle part only within, which are invisible 
when wetted, apparently pale greenish, spotted with violet on the 
basal part ; lobes erect, connate at the tips, 34 lin. long, } lin. broad, 
linear, very slightly broadened near the apex, flat, puberulous on 
the back, pubescent on the inner face from the middle upwards with 
rather longer hairs, very shortly ciliate, purplish-brown, all the hairs 
colourless ; outer corona somewhat cup-shaped, with truncate pocket- 
like divisions, about as long as the staminal column, glabrous ; inner 
corona-lobes 1 lin. long, narrowly subspathulate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
connivent over the staminal column at the base, then erect, with 
recurved tips, dorsally connected at the base with the outer corona, 
glabrous. 
Eastern Reaion: Delagoa Bay, Mrs. Monteiro! 
29. C. pachystelma (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 47) ; 
stem twining, slightly branched, minutely pubescent ; leaves rather 
fleshy ; petiole 14-3 lin. long; blade }—2 in. long, 4-1 in. broad, 
_ ovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, obtuse, abruptly apiculate, rounded 
at the base, puberulous ; cymes lateral at the nodes, 2-6 1-flowered ; 
peduncle 3-6 lin. long, puberulous ; pedicels 3—4 lin. long, puberulous ; 
sepals 3 lin. long, deltoid-lanceolate, acuminate, puberulous ; corolla 
only seen in young bud, rather densely puberulous all over on the 
outside, but according to Schlechter has a tube 10 lin, long, sub- 
globosely inflated and 24 lin. in diam. at the base, cylindric above 
and slightly dilated at the mouth ; lobes 2} lin. long, erect, connate 
at the tips, linear-oblong, obtuse, replicate, glabrous on the back 
(see above), tomentose-villous on the inner face ; outer corona-lobes 
connate in a short tube or ring, with free semiorbicular very 
