144 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADK^ (brown). [Ceropegia. 



with a shallow acute sinus between them, glabrous. Peduncles 

 1-1^ in. long, moderately stout, glabrous, 1-2- (or more?) flowered; 

 bracts 1 J-3 lin. long, linear or subulate., acute, glabrous ; pedicels 

 4-8 lin. long, moderately stout, glabrous. Sepals 5-6 lin. long, 

 1-1 J lin. broad, lanceolate, attenuate-acuminate, glabrous. Coroha 

 glabrous outside, hairy at the mouth and base of the tube inside ; 

 tube about 1 in. long, abruptly curved at a right angle above its 

 slightly globose-inflated base, where it is 3-3 J lin. in diam., cylindric 

 above and about 2 J lin. in diam., shortly dilated into a broad funnel- 

 shaped mouth about 7-8 lin, in diam. ; lobes about h in. long (only seen 

 in bud), broa.dly deltoid-ovate at the base, connivent, then contracted 

 and connate into a short narrow erect tube about ^ in. long, ihen 

 abruptly dilated at the apex into a small 5- winged depressed knob, nearly 

 2 lin. in diam. Outer corona ? (decayed and eaten) ; inner coronal-lobes 

 IJ lin. long, erect, spathulate-linear, obtuse. 

 nCozaznb. Ilist. Zanguebar, Kirk, 28 ! 



10. C. subtruncata, JV. E. Br, in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 260. 

 Stem twining, with one pubescent line. Leaves herbaceous ; petiole 

 J-J in. long ; blade lf-3J in. long, 1-1 J in, broad, ovate or oblong-ovo.te, 

 subcuspidate-acuminate, cordate, emarginate or subtruncate at the base, 

 glabrous above, more or less pilose with jointed hairs beneath, ciliate. 

 Flowers solitary ; pedicels 7-9 lin. long, thinly pubescent. Sepals 2-4 

 lin. long, lanceolate-attenuate, with a few short hairs on the back. 

 Corolla curved, glabrous outside and inside; tube | in. long, rather stout, 

 about \ in. in diam., slightly inflated at the base, cylindric above, not 

 dilated at the mouth ; lobes 5 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, erect, with connate 

 tips,broadlyrhomboidal-obovate, replicate, forming a subtruncate apiculate 

 limb broader than the tube. Outer corona arising about f lin. above the 

 base of the staminal-column ; lobes deeply bifld, with teeth J lin. long, 

 ascending and attaining the level of the anthers, glabrous ; inner 

 coronal-lobes \\ lin. long, linear, acute, connivent-erect, connected at 

 •their base to the outer corona by 5 partitions, glabrous. 



Zfile ]band> Abyssinia : without precise locality, Schimper, 628 ! 



11. C. soboUfera, N. E. Br. in Kew BuUetin, 1895, 261. 

 Subterranean stems apparently widely creeping, tuberous ? Stem 

 twining, rather slender, with a pubescent line down one side. Leaves 

 apparently somewhat fleshy ; petiole 2-3 lin. long ; blade |-1 in. long, 

 2-4 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, rounded at the base, glabrous 

 above, ciliate and with a few hairs beneath, at least on the nerves. 

 Flowers in pairs or occasionally solitary; pedicels 3-4 lin. long, 

 apparently 4-angled, but perhaps from shrinking in drying, glabrous. 

 Sepals IJ lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Corolla very 

 slightly curved, glabrous outside and inside ; tube 7-8 lin. long, rather 

 stout, cylindric, slightly inflated in the lower half and there about J iu. 

 in diam., about 2^ lin. in diam. at the mouth ; lobes 4 lin. long, 

 2 lin. broad, connate at the tips, replicate, forming in outline a globose 

 limb to the corolla, keeled down the face within. Outer coronal-lobes 



