Ceropegia.] i.xx;xv. asclepiade.« (brown). 441 



-when in fruit. Sepals IJ lin. long, | lin. broad, linear-subulate, acute, 

 pubescent, ascending. CJorolla metallic blue-green (black in the drie.l 

 state) on the lobes and in the mouth of the tube, yellow below {Johimon), 

 pubescent outside, especially on the constricted part and lobes, verv 

 minutely puberulous at the base of the lobes and around the mouth of 

 the tube, otherwise glabrous within ; tube straight, 8-'J lin. long, 

 inflated-cylindric-oblong for about ^ an in. of its length and thereabout 

 2 lin. in diam. in the dried state, constricted above, very shortly an<l 

 broadly funnel-shaped at the mouth ; lobes very spreading, not cohering 

 at the tips, 'l\-2h lin. long, oblong, replicate, 1 lin. broad andsubobtu-e 

 when flattened out. Outer corona of 5 small emarginate or shortly 

 bifid lobes about ^ lin. long, forming 5 small pockets, hairy within; 

 inner coronal-lobes about h lin. long, filiform, incumbent at the base on 

 the backs of the anthers, then connivent-erect, slightly incurved in the 

 upper part, dark-coloured in the middle part in the dried state, thinly 

 hairy at the base, where they are dorsally adnate to the outer corona. 

 Follicles linear-fusiform, glabrous. 



IXpper Crumea. Gold Coast : Kroba Plains, Johnson, 790 ! 



In the dried state this species is, at first sif^ht, exceediui^ly like C. nit/ra, N. E. Br. ; 

 it differs, however, in its longer corolla and very different, coronal strucLure. 



5. C. lorauthiflora, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrh. xvii. 150. Tuber 

 globose, |-1 in. in diam. Stem li^3 ft. high, twining, more or less 

 densely pubescent or subtomentose with jointed hairs. Leaves herba- 

 ceous ; petiole J-| in. long ; blade 1-2 J in. long, J- J in. broad, lanceo- 

 late or oblong-lanceoiate, acuminate, rounded or cunearely rounded at 

 the base, pubescent on both sides. Umbels 3-4-flowered, subsessile or 

 on peduncles about 1 lin. long, all parts, including the outside of the 

 corolla, covered with spreading jointed hairs; bracts li-3 lin. long, 

 subulate, recurving; pedicels 4-7 lin. long, rather slender. Sepals 

 3^-4 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla straight ; tube \ in. 

 long, about 2 lin. in diam., tubular-campanulate, not inflated at the 

 base, pubescent outside, glabrous ? inside ; lobes twice as long as the tube, 

 6-7 lin. long, linear from a deltoid base, replicate, subeiect, with free 

 tips, densely and minutely puberulous on the inner face, reticulate with 

 dark-coloured veins on their basal part, at the ba^c the angles formed 

 by their union project abruptly beyond the diameter of the tube. 

 Outer coronal-lobes arising J lin. above the biuse of thestaminal-column 

 and reduced to 5 small pouches not reaching to the level of the Iwuse of 

 the anthers; inner coronal-lobes about \ lin. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 incumbent on the backs of the anthers and not produced beyond tlu-m. 

 Staminal-coluran with T) linear blackish markings iniinetliately umler 

 the outer coronal-lobes. — K. Schum. in Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenfum. 

 iv. ii. 272. C. ahyssinica, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 46 (excl. 

 synonym C. hirsuta, Hochst.); Vatke in Linna^a, xl. 217; Engl. 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 343 (not of Decaisne). 



Wile Xiaad. Abyssinia: ncir Tchelatchekaniic (Jclajt-ranne), Quartim DUlu* ! 

 .near Guendepta, Schimper {ex Richard) ; Auiopii, llOO ft.. Srhimper, 751 ^ex 

 Vatke ^ Engler), 781 (ex Schumann); ami wiihout prcciso Ijcality. I'ariyiu ! 



