Ceropegia.] lxxxv. ASCLEPiADEit (brown). 443 



vaBy#|Cute, liidiy outsule. Corolla-tuLe toreti.', straight, scarcely suhinHuttd at the 

 base, 4 times iis long as the sepnls, puijoscent ; lobes short, luiueolaU', obtuse. In 

 habit it resenil)les C. abyssinica, Decirc., but is ejisily distinguished by its irregularly 

 sinuate leaves, and especially by its corolla, in which the tube is 4 times us long as 

 the calyx and the lo])es very short and obtuse." 



My descrii)tion is iiiiule exclusively from Schiinper's 8])ecimen, which was re- 

 ceived from the Paris Herbarium under this name and bears the satne number ('451) 

 as the specimen at P;iris, mimed C. sinuata by Decaisne ; but it may not be the 

 same as Quartin Dillon's plant, which I have not seen, and upon wl'irh A. Kichard 

 based his description, according to which, his plant differs from Schimper's in having 

 only 2-3 flowers in an umbel, and a corolla with a straight tube and very short 

 obtuse lanceolate lobes. Vatke quotes Schimper's number as 491 for this phmt. 



8. C. tentaculata, X. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 2(11. Tuber de- 

 pressed, li-5 in. in diam. Stem twining, slender, growing to (i-10 ft. in 

 length, branching, glabrous. Leaves succulent ; petiole l-^^lin.long : blade 

 ;|-2 in. long, ^-1^ in. broad, linear, oblong, ovate-lanceolate, ovate, or 

 spathulate-ovate or spathulate-oblanceolate, acute or obtu.se, mucronulate, 

 varying from cuneate-acute to subtruncately rounded at the ba.'-e, glabrous, 

 often undulate on the margins. Umbels sessile, one-* to many-Howered ; 

 bracts ^ lin. long, su^bulate ; pedicels 8-5 lin. long, slender, glabrous. Sepals 



1 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Corolla slightly curved, sometimes 

 drying nearly or quite straight ; tube 7-0 lin. long, intlated-ovoid and 

 about J in. in diam. at the base, cylindric and about 1 lin, in diam. above, 

 slightly funnel-shaped at the mouth, glabrous outside, with a few minute 

 scattered hairs inside (base of the tube rosy-purple, the rest yellowi.sh, 

 Wehvitsch) ; lobes free, widely spreading, 5-G lin. long, tapering from a 

 deltoid base to tine hair-like points, with a few minute hairs on the basal 

 part (dull yellowish or greenish, Wehcitsch). Outer corona arising j lin. 

 above the base of the staminal-column, not produced into teeth, but 

 forming 5 truncate pouches alternating with the stamens ; inner coronal- 

 lobes I lin. long, erect, linear-spathulate, slightly cohering at their tips 

 (alway*s?), the entire corona glabrous (greenish, WehcitscJi). Follicles 

 4-6 in. long, Jj in. thick, linear-terete, acuminate into a beak. Seeds 



2 lin. long, oblong-ovate, plano-convex, with a thickened mi^rgin, 

 glabrous. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 004. 



^ow^er Guinea. Angola : Loanda ; in dry hilly places, 

 the grass plains in Mnceques, near Loanda, Gotistceiler, \}0\ 

 and Ondonga, Schinz ! 



Var. puherula, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. GUo. Stem: 

 less puberulous. Flowers dull violet-greenish. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; in rocky tliieki-ls 

 Welwitsch, 426S : in s.'indy ihickeis near Lopollo, H'flwitsch, 



9. C. distincta, X. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, isy:., iCl'. St»Mn j.ro- 

 bably twining, stout, 2-2 J lin. thick, hollow, glabrous. Leaves j.iobably 

 fleshy, thin in the dried state ; petiole 5-H lin. long; blade 2 :} in. long, 

 1-2 in. broad, oblong, ovate oblong, ovate-lanceolate, brmdly elliptic- 

 ovate or elliptic-oblong, shortly and abruptly cuspidate-acute or acut« 

 or acuminate, cordate, with short broadly roundeil lol>es nt the Use, 



