Ceropegia. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 833 
acute, obtuse or rounded at the base ; cymes pedunculate, lateral at: 
the nodes, 2—3-flowered ; peduncle 4—} in. long, glabrous ; pedicels 
15-23 lin. long, glabrous ; sepals 1} lin. long, 2 lin. broad, narrowly 
lanceolate, acuminate, or subulate, glabrous; ‘“ corolla-tube slender, 
narrowed at the middle, striate with violaceous ; lobes of the limb 
very narrow, pilose, with reflexed sinuses.” Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 8915 
Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 644. 
EAsTERN Reeion: Pondoland or Natal ; on sand-hills not far from the sea-shore 
between Umtentu River and Umzimkulu River, below 100 ft., Drége, 4947 ! 
I cannot identify this with any plant known to me, as the type specimen 
in E. Meyer’s Herbarium is now destitute of corollas except in very young bud, 
but iv general appearance it somewhat resembles C. Cajfrorwm, Schlechter, 
although the statement that the sinuses of the corolla are reflexed, indicates 
_an entirely different species. E. Meyer suggests that it may be a variety of 
C. africana, R. Br., to which species Dr. Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 
54, 13, and Journ. Bot. 1897, 294 has referred it. This, however, is unlikely, as 
it comes from a region that was quite unexplored at the date (1822) when Robert 
Brown described C. africana, the plant is also different in appearance, and I find 
the sepals of C. linearis are much narrower, longer and more finely pointed than 
those of C. africana, whilst the sinuses of the corolla are not reflexed in the latter. 
38. C.? torulosa (Haw. Rev. Pl. Succ. 199), a much-branched 
succulent shrublet, with the appearance of a species of Piper ; 
branches about 9 in. long, erectly decumbent, effusely dichotomous, 
slender, terete ; leaves opposite, spreading (‘“‘expansa”), 1 in. long, 
shorter than the internodes, lanceolate-oblong, shaped like a pea-pod 
(probably depressed or compressed-terete in transverse section), 
copiously convex-subbullulate on both sides or torulose, dull green ; 
petiole 1 lin. long, filiform; flowers unknown to Haworth, but 
according to P. N. Don, Hort. Cantab. ed. 13, 169, they are yellow, 
but are not described. 
SovutH Arrica: without locality, ex Haworth. 
I doubt if this is an Asclepiad, but cannot conjecture what it may be. I cannot 
discover that any author besides those quoted makes any mention of the plant, 
and it is omitted from the Index Kewensis. 
It may be of interest to note here that in the Botanic Garden at Leiden a 
distinct hybrid (C. hybrida, N. E. Br.) has been raised from seed produced by 
Ceropegia Sandersonii, which had been fertilised by insect agency with pollen 
from C. similis, N. E. Br. The native country of the latter species is unknown. 
See the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1906, xl. 383, figs. 145-148. 
XLI. BRACHYSTELMA, R. Br. 
Calyx 5-partite. Oorolla 5-lobed ; tube campanulate, cup-shaped 
or rarely shortly tubular, or the united part flat or saucer-shaped, 
or the whole corolla reflexed from the base ; lobes free and widely 
spreading, ascending or reflexed, or connate at the tips, forming a 
sort of cage, valvate or replicate-valvate in bud. Corona arising 
from the staminal column, double or falsely appearing 1-seriate ; 
outer corona cupular and 5—10-toothed or lobed or divided by 5 cut- 
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