Ceropegia.] lxxxv. asclepiade^. (rrown). 439 



Corolla-tube 1-1 j in. loner; leaves '^-2}, lin. l)roa(l, 

 linear or linear-lanceolate. 

 Corolla-lobes 10-1 1 lin. long .... -iS. C. campanulnfa. 

 Corolla-lobes 3-4 lin. lon^; .... i-H. C. viynahliana. 



Corolla-tube ^-5 in. lon^. 



Corollii-lol)es about 8 lin. lon^j ; leaves 6-12 lin. 



broad IB. C.JilipenduIa. 



Corolla-lobes about 5 lin. long ; leaves l.]-5 lin. 



brond ....... 47. C. abj/xsinica. 



Corolla-lobes less than 4 lin. long. 



Leaves ovate or ovatf-oLlong, up to 1 in. 



broad ....... 49. C. Sleudneri. 



Leaves linciir or lineiu -subulate, J, ^ lin. 



broid ....... 50. C. htonilis. 



1. C. pygmsea, Schim in. Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenh. xxx. 2G5. 

 Tuber 1—2 in. in diam., ovoid or subglobose, siibtruncato at the base, 

 buried 2-3 in. in the ground, emitting a single stem wliich branche.s at 

 ground-level. Branches erect, 1 ^ -'> in. long, pubescent with minute 

 curved hairs. Leaves erect or ascending, |— t in. long, 1-5 lin. broad, 

 from linear to oblanceolate or spathulate-obovate, acute or obtuse, 

 pubescent with minute curved hairs chiefly along the midrib and 

 margins ; the broader leaves gradually tapering from above the middle 

 into a short petiole. Cymes or umbels subaxillary, 1-3-flowered, sessile 

 or with thinly pubescent peduncles up to 'Ih lin. long; pedicels 5-7 lin. 

 long, thinly pubescent. Sepals H--i lin. long, lanceolate, acute, 

 pubescent. Corolla large, pubescent outside, glabrous within, purple- 

 black when dried, somewhat resembling the flowers of an Aristolochia 

 in form, the tube being abruptly bent at a right angle below the middle ; 

 part below the bend |-1 in. long, h in. in diam., ovoid-inflated ; part 

 above the bend 1-1| in. long, '^>^-4 lin. in diam., tubular, slightly funnel- 

 shaped at the mouth, which is truncate, with 5 deltoid acute teeth or 

 lobes 1-1 J lin. long, quite free, replicate, incurved. Outer corona 

 1-1| lin. long, three times as long as the staminal-column, deeply cup- 

 shaped, very shortly 5-toothed, sparsely covered with short purple 

 hairs within ; inner coronal-lobes ] lin. long, linear-subulate, slightly 

 gibbous at the base, incumbent on tlie backs of the anthers, and not 

 exceeding them, adnate at their base to the bottom of the outer corona, 

 glabrous. The entire corona of the same colour as the corolla in the dried 

 state. — C. gymnopoda^ Schlechter in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 450. 



Iiower Guinea. German South West Africa: Ambolmd ; in sundy soil at 

 Olukonda :ind between Olukonla and Uukuambi, Schinz, 147 ! Uukuanibi, Unuta- 

 nen, 81 ! 82 ! 



C. gymnopoda, Schlechter, was described from br.'ad-leived specimens with xeiy 

 immature flowers; when fully developed the flowers aie idmtical with thost> of 

 C. pygmcea. Linear and spathulate leaves sometimes occur on the same specimen. 



2. C. pumila, iV. /;. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 181»8, 300. Tul>er 

 flattened, U-2 in. in diam. Stems 2-3 from a tuber, 4-G in. hiidi, 

 erect, branched, more or le.ss pubescent on the young parts. Leaves 

 spreading; petiole 1-U lin. long; blade T.-ll lin. long, U-2 lin. broad. 



