Ceropegia. | ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 831 
tips, keeled on the inner face, which is veined with purple-brown on 
a greenish ground at the base and entirely purple-brown above, 
green on the back, ciliate on the margins for a short space just below 
the middle and on the basal part of the keel with fine simple purple 
hairs, otherwise glabrous ; outer corona somewhat cup-like or its 
lobes pouch-like, subtruncate or slightly notched, glabrous ; inner 
corona-lobes 4-3 lin. long, 4 lin. broad across the side, laterally 
much compressed, broadly falcate, obtuse, connivent over the style- 
apex at the base, then recurved in a semicircle above the outer 
corona and dorsally connected to it at the base, glabrous ; follicles 
spreading, 1} in. or more long, } in. thick, linear-terete, shortly 
acute ; seeds 14-1? lin. long, 3—3 lin. broad, ovate, broadly margined, 
smooth, glabrous, brown. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 294. 
Var. B, tugelensis (N. E. Br.) ; stem apparently long, very distinctly twining 
{a succulent climber, Gerrard), glabrous ; leaves #-1f in. long, 2-5 lin. broad, 
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate ; peduncles 3-5-flowered ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long; 
inner corona-lobes about 2 lin. long and 4 lin. broad, erect, falcately recurved at 
the obtuse apex ; follicles 24-23 in. long, 2 lin. thick, terete-fusiform, tapering to 
a beak, smooth, glabrous ; seeds 23-3 lin. long, about 1 lin. broad, convex on one 
side, with incurved sides on the other, broadly margined, smooth, glabrous, light 
brown ; otherwise as in the type. 
Eastern Recion: Transkei ; near Old Morley, Bowker! and living plant sent 
to Kew by Sir H. Barkly! Var. 8: Natal; thorny bush, Tugela River, Gerrard, 
1323! 
The follicles described, are from a plant cultivated by Mr. W. E. Ledger of 
Wimbledon, and appear to me not to have fully developed. The Tugela plant 
may prove to be a distinct species when better known ; it looks very different from 
the wild specimens of C. Barklyi, but except in its very twining stems is scarcely 
distinguishable from that plant as it grows under cultivation, for no one would 
recognise that the figure in the Botanical Magazine (which is excellent of the culti- 
vated plant) belonged to the same species as the wild specimens, so very different 
are they in appearance, although in this case actually grown from the same tubers. 
34. C. Conrathii (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxviii. 45); whole 
plant including the tuber 34-4} in. high ; tuber depressed-subglobose, 
about 2 in. in diam. ; stems several or perhaps numerous, clustered, 
erect, simple or branched near the base, glabrous, about half their 
length buried in the ground in the specimen seen ; leaves suberect 
er ascending, subsessile or very shortly petiolate, at the time of 
flowering 3—? in. long, 2-3 lin. broad, probably afterwards enlarging, 
lanceolate, very acute, cuneately narrowed at the base, wavy and 
erisped at the margins, sparsely ciliolate, glabrous on both sides, 
apparently somewhat fleshy ; flowers in clusters of 4-6 at the nodes ; 
pedicels erect, 4-7 lin. long, slender, glabrous ; sepals nearly 1 lin, 
long, 2 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous ; corolla 
very slightly curved ; tube } in. long, 14-2 lin. in diam. at the 
ellipsoid-inflated base, cylindric above and about 1 lin. in diam., not 
enlarged at the mouth, glabrous outside, very sparsely hairy at the 
middle part and having a few very short cylindric processes on the 
inflated part within, apparently whitish or yellowish, dotted with 
dark violet-purple on the upper part, the spots becoming more 
