828 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [Ceropegia. 
obtuse tips, thickened at the margins ; inner corona-lobes erect, 
linear-oblong from a narrow base, dilated below the middle, obtuse, 
much longer than the outer corona. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 
295; N. EB. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 457. 
KataHari REGION: Transvaal; Mailas Kop, 2500 ft., Schlechter, 4511! 
Makapans Poort, near Potgeiters Rust, 4300 ft., Schlechter, 4317. 
The only specimen I have seen (Schlechter, 4511) has but one very immature 
flower upon it, which I was unable to dissect ; the locality Mailas Kop is just 
within Tropical Transvaal, where the plant was also collected by Dr. Schlechter on 
the bank of the River Limvovo, near Valdezia. 
30. ©. Meyeri (Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 645) ; rootstock a 
flattened tuber ; stem herbaceous, up to 3 or 4 ft. long, twining, 
pubescent ; leaves herbaceous; petiole 4-1} in. long, pubescent ; 
blade }-1# in. long, 4-1} in. broad, cordate-ovate or lanceolate- 
ovate, acute or somewhat acuminate, cordate or rounded at the base, 
entire, variably toothed, or somewhat lobed and the margin cut into 
numerous short linear-oblong lobules, more or less pubescent or 
rarely subglabrous on both sides ; cymes sessile or subsessile at the 
nodes, 2—4-flowered; pedicels 4-3 in. long, villous-pubescent ; 
‘sepals 34-4} lin. long, } lin. broad at the base, subulate, pubescent ; 
corolla-tube 1-1} in. long, bottle-shaped, the basal 3 inflated 
cylindric-oblong and 1-1 in. in diam., narrowed above into a 
cylindric neck 1-11 lin. in diam., abruptly dilated to } in. in diam. 
at the mouth, glabrous outside and within, except at the slightly 
pubescent inner surface of the mouth, white or greenish-white on 
the basal part, striate or dotted with light or dark purple-brown or 
violet on the upper 2, dark (purple?) at the base inside ; lobes 43-5 
lin. long, 14 lin. broad at the very base, linear, with reflexed margins, 
connate at the tips, in dried specimens usually appearing to be 
connivent-erect, but when alive, they are horizontally spreading at 
the base and horizontally incurved at the middle, almost black, with 
2 central green longitudinal stripes on the inner face, glabrous, not 
ciliate ; outer corona-lobes } lin. long, deltoid, acute, ascending, 
glabrous, white ; inner corona-lobes 1 lin, long, linear or slightly 
spathulate-linear, obtuse, connivent at the base, then slightly 
diverging and in a broad curve again connivent at the tips, blackish 
at the basal part, white above ; follicles erect, subparallel, 34-4 in. 
long, 1 in. thick, terete, tapering into a beak, smooth, glabrous. 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 12 and 24; xx. Beibl. 51, 
47, and xxi. Beibl. 54, 13; Journ. Bot. 1897, 294; N. E. Br. in Dyer, 
Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 454. C. pubescens, E. Meyer, Comm. 193 ; 
Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 891, not of Wall. . 
Coast Recion: Komgha Div. ; near Komgha, Flanagan, 640 ! : 
KaLanari REGION ; Transvaal ; hills at Riemers Creek, near Barberton, Galpm: 
812; Elandspruit Mountains, 6000 ft., Schlechter, 3864; by the Litonandoa and 
Limvovo Rivers, 1800 ft., Schlechter, 4527, all ex Schlechter. Masetana Valley, 
near Shiluvane (with entire subglabrous and toothed pubescent leaves) Junod, 
1020! 
