442 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADEiE (brown). [Ce7^opegia, 



Except in hal)it there is no technical character whereby this plant differs fn m 

 the genus Brachi/stelma. 



C. C. ringens, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 48. Rootstock a 

 globose tuber. Stem twining, slender, pubescent, herbaceous. Leaves 

 very variable, ovate-lanceolate, acute, emargin ate- cordate or rarely 

 rounded or gradually attenuate at the base, pilose-pubescent on both 

 sides. Umbels subsessile, several-flowered ; pedicels hairy. Sepals 

 lanceolate (" very narrow, linear," in note), acute, hairy. Corolla 

 curved ; tube 4 times as long as the calyx, inflated at its base, shortly 

 pilose ; limb oblique ; lobes free, lanceolate-linear, obtuse at the apex, 

 ciliolate. — Walp. Ann. iii. 67. 



M"lle I.and. Abyssinia ; between Mai Gougoua and Debra-Sina, Quartet 

 Dillon (ex Richard). 



I have not seen this species, but the type in A. Richard's Herbarium has been 

 ex.irnint.'d and a drawing of a flower made forme by Mr. I. H. Kurkill, from whom I 

 learn that the plant is like Jin entire-leaved specimen of C. sinuata, Decne., except that 

 the young leaves are more hairy and the corolla-lobes shorter. Mr. Burkill's drawing 

 of the flower (drawn to scale in its dried state) represents the corolla to be exactly 

 as in C. sinuata, with the tube "felightly curved, of nearly equal diameter throughout, 

 6.] lin, long and 2 lin. in diam., and the lobes 21 lin. long. C. convolvuloides, 

 A. Rich., has been mistaken for this speties by other authors. 



7. C. sinuata, Decne. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 47. Stem 

 twining, more or less pubescent. Leaves herbaceous ; petiole \-^ in. 

 long; blade 1-2^ in. long, i-lj in. broad, lanceolate to deltoid-ovate or 

 cordate, acute or acuminate, rounded or cordate at the base, coarsely 

 and irregularly toothed or sinuate on the basal part or entire, sparsely 

 pubescent on both sides, ciliolate. Umbels sessile or with peduncles up 

 to 2 lin. long, 5-7-llowered, all parts except the corolla covered with a 

 spreading pubescence ; bracts 1-2 lin. long, subulate ; pedicels G-7 lin. 

 long. Sepals 3-3| lin. long, J lin. broad, lanceolate-subulate. Corolla- 

 tube 1 in. long, curved above the obliquely ellipsoid-inflated base, which 

 is \ in. in diam., cylindric up to the mouth above, about 2 lin. in diam., 

 glabrous outside and inside ; lobes free and spreading, J in. long, linear 

 from a deltoid base, acute, replicate, blackish, sparsely pubescent on the 

 back, glabrous on the face. Outer coronal-lobes arising ^ lin. above the 

 base of the staminal-column, ^ !in. long, spreading, rectangular, dilated 

 at the base, truncate at the apex, glabrous; inner coronal-lobes 1 lin. 

 long, connivent-erect, lineao", obtuse, minutely papillate on the apical 

 part. — Walp. Ann. iii. 67; Vatke in Linnaea, xl. 218; K. Schum. in 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 327, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 

 272. 



xrile £and. Abyssinia : near Jelajeranne, ScJiimper, 2049! Shireh Pro- 

 vince, Quartin Dillon (ex Richard) ; Serraba, Schimper, 451 ! 



nXozamb. Blst, German East Africa, ex Schumann. 



Richard describes C. sinuata, as follows : " Rootstock a globose tuber. Stem 

 slender, twining, pubescent. Leaves petiolate, oblong, acute, obtuse at the base, with 

 the margin unequally sinuate, slightly hairy, especially beneath. Flowers outside 

 the axils, 2-3 together, pedicellate; pedicels slender, shortly linii-y. Sepals linear. 



