830 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Ceropegia. 
long, 1-3-flowered, lateral at the nodes, glabrous ; pedicels 14—3 lin. 
long, glabrous; sepals 14-24 lin. long, } lin. broad at the base, 
subulate or almost setaceous, glabrous ; corolla-tube straight or but 
slightly curved, 3-1 in. long, globose-inflated at the base (Burchell), 
but in dried specimens only very slightly inflated and about 2 lin. 
in diam. at the base, cylindric and 14-1? lin. in diam. above, 
enlarging to 3} or 4 lin. indiam. at the mouth, glabrous outside and 
within, minutely tuberculate on the veins inside the inflated part, 
apparently white, thickly spotted with violet-purple above the 
inflation, which is apparently striate with purple ; lobes 7-10 lin. 
long, erect, twisted together at the upper part, connate at the tips, 
very narrowly linear from a deltoid base, replicate, with a rather 
broad wing-like keel down the lower half of the inner face, glabrous, 
not ciliate, dark purple-brown, the keel apparently white ; outer 
corona cup-shaped, with 5 erect linear lobes 3-1 lin. long, divided to 
below the middle into 2 linear obtuse parallel segments, hairy ; 
inner corona-lobes } lin. long, exceeding the outer corona, linear, 
connivent-erect over the staminal column, glabrous. Dvetr. Syn. Pl. 
ii. 891; Decne in DO. Prodr. viii. 645. C. filiformis, Oliv. ex 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54,13; Schlechter in Journ. 
Bot. 1897, 295.  Systrepha filiformis, Burch. Trav. i. 546. S. 
(Ceropegia ?) filiforme, Burch. Trav. ii. 617. 
CenTRaL Reaion: Murraysburg Div. ; near Murraysburg, 4100 ft., Tyson, 410! 
Aberdeen Div. ; Camdeboo, near Hamerkuil, 3000 ft., Drége, 5618! Cradock 
Div. ; near Cradock, Cooper, 2707 ! 
Katawart Recion: Hay Div. in Griqualand West ; on the plain at the foot of 
the Asbestos Mountains, Burchell, 2092 ! 
A specimen with immature flowers in the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, 
collected by Mr. H. Hutton at Commadagga in Somerset Div., probably belongs 
to this species. 
33. C. Barklyi (Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 6315, by error Barkleyi) ; 
rootstock a tuber with 1 or more erect stems 2-6 in. long, simple, 
sometimes slightly twining at the apex, under cultivation up to 1} 
ft. long and requiring support, or occasionally twining, pubescent 
when dwarf, glabrous when elongated ; leaves fleshy, very shortly 
petiolate, 4-1} in. long, 1-5 lin. broad, linear to lanceolate, acute, 
rounded or somewhat cuneate at the base, flat above, slightly convex 
beneath, shortly and rather thinly pubescent to glabrous on both 
sides, slightly and minutely ciliate, dark green with whitish veins ; 
peduncles lateral at the nodes, 2-9 lin. long, 2—3-flowered, glabrous ; 
bracts 4-1 lin. long, subulate ; pedicels 1}—-2} lin. long, glabrous ; 
sepals 14 lin. long, subulate, glabrous ; corolla-tube slightly curved 
(straight in dried flowers), 7-8 lin. long, about 2 lin. in diam. at 
the globose-inflated base, cylindric and about 3 lin. in diam. above, 
about } in. in diam. at the funnel-shaped mouth, outside glabrous, 
greenish-white at the base, pinkish above, passing into light green at 
the mouth, inside with a few fine long hairs on the upper part ; lobes 
3-} lin. long, very narrowly linear from a deltoid base, erect, 
diverging above (in dried flowers subparallel), with incurved connate 
