Ceropegia. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 829 
Eastern Reaion: Transkei; near Fort Bowker, Bowker, 483! 541! Butter- 
worth, Mrs. Barber (Bowker), 942! 943! valleys around Kentani, Miss Pegler, 
313! Tembuland ; between the Bashee River and Morley, Drége, 4945! Natal ; 
Umcomaas, McKen, 8! Inanda, Wood, 1307! Olivers Hoek Pass, Wood, 3476! 
and without precise locality, Gerrard, 430! Mrs. K. Saunders ! 
Also in Tropical Transvaal. 
31. C. multiflora (Baker in Ref. Bot. i. t. 10); tuber 3-4 in. in 
diam., flattened ; stem long, slender, twining, glabrous ;-leaves more 
or less reflexed, {-2 in. long, $—1 lin. broad and nearly as thick as 
broad, fleshy, subsessile, linear-subterete, channelled down the face, 
glabrous ; cymes sessile or very shortly pedunculate, lateral at the 
nodes, 6-10 (or more ?)-flowered, the flowers developing successively ; 
peduncles 0—} in. long, glabrous ; pedicels }~} in. long, glabrous ; 
sepals 1 lin. long, subulate, glabrous; corolla-tube 4-3 in. long, 
slightly curved or nearly straight, ovoid-inflated and } in. in diam. 
at the base, narrowed to 3 lin. in diam. and cylindric above, about 
1 lin. in diam. at the mouth, glabrous outside, inside with deflexed 
white hairs in the slender part and some spreading fleshy subulate 
processes with purple tips in the inflated part; lobes with their 
basal part 14-13 lin. long, linear-lanceolate or oblong-linear, 
ascending-spreading, abruptly tapering into very fine hair-like 
points 1} lin. long, which are horizontally inflexed and connate at 
their tips, green, covered on the inner face of the lower part with 
short adpressed retrorse white hairs; before expansion the hair- 
points form a fine needle-like point to the bud; outer corona } lin. 
long, rising to the level of the top of the staminal column, cup-like, 
pentagonal, with very rounded angles, entire, truncate, glabrous, 
white ; inner corona-lobes } lin. long, linear or linear-spathulate, 
incumbent on the backs of the anthers at the base, then connivent- 
erect in a column, dorsally connected to the outer corona at the base, 
glabrous, white. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 294. Systrepha 
multiflora, Burchell ex Baker in Ref. Bot. i. under t. 10. 
Var. 8, latifolia (N. E. Br.); leaves with a petiole #4 in. long and a blade 3-1 
in. long, 3-3 in. broad, elliptic, obtuse, mucronulate, fleshy, flat, dark green 
above, paler beneath ; midrib impressed above, prominent beneath. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Var. 8: cultivated at Kew ! 
CENTRAL REGION: Colesberg Div. ; Colesberg, Arnot (ex Baker). 
KataHari Recion: Bechuanaland ; near the sources of the Kuruman River, 
Burchell, 2481! 
The Colesberg locality appears to me doubtful, the plant was sent by Mr. Arnot 
(not Arnott as originally stated) from Colesberg to Kew, but I suspect it was 
brought from Griqualand West where Mr. Arnot was ‘‘ Agent and Representative 
of the Griqua Chief and Government.” There is a sketch at Kew of this plant, 
from the Transvaal. 
32. ©. infundibuliformis (E. Meyer, Comm. 194); rootstock a 
cluster of long fleshy roots 4—3 in. thick; stem up to 2 ft. long, 
twining, glabrous; leaves 4-2} in. long, }-} lin. broad, linear or 
linear-filiform, acute, glabrous, apparently fleshy ; peduncle 3-5 lin. 
