Oeropegia.] "lxxxv. asclepiade^ (brown). 447 



purple-brown on a whitish-yellow ground ; upper part striata inside 

 with blackish-purple ; throat and basal part of the lobes reticulate with 

 purple-brown ; apex of the lobes within velvety pur[)le, and covered 

 with long purple rigid hairs; greyish outside, Welicitsch.) Outer 

 corona divided nearly to the base into 10 ascending-spreading lobes; 

 adnate on one side for half their length to the backs of the inner 

 coronal-lobes, their free 'part J lin. long, oblong, obtuse, ciliate with 

 rather long hairs ; inner coronal-lobes 1 lin. long, linear, obtuse, erect, 

 glabrous. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 095. 



Z.ower Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto ; by tlie River Coaiigo in tlic Qu.-ta 

 Mountain?, Welwitsch, 4272 ! 4272b ! 



In the Catalogue of Welwitscli's Plants, by some error, which Mr. Hiern in. 

 forms me he is unable to explain, tliis plant is doscriheil as " shiiggy throughout," l)ut 

 the type specimens and that at Kew are as described above. 



17. C. nilotica, Kotschy in Sitziingsh. Wien. Muth.-Xat. Akad. 

 1865, li. 356. Tuberous, glabrous. Stem twining, slender, Heshy ; 

 internodes 2 in. long. Leaves somewhat fleshy, 1 in. long, M lin. broad, 

 ovate-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, acuminate, denticulate towards 

 the apex with callose cuspidate teeth. Peduncles lateral, quadrangular, 

 two-flowered (described as being shorter than the leaves in the 

 diagnosis, and longer than the leaves in the description). Sepals 1 .V 

 lin. long, subulate, spreading. Corolla H in. long; tube clavate, 

 slightly inflated at the base, dilated and ^ in. broad at the mouth, 

 glabrous ; lobes \ in. long, deltoid, connate at the apex, blackish-purple 

 and pilose within, marked with a yellow spot at the base. Outer coronal- 

 lobes horizontal, short, dilated truncate, entire, glabrous ; inner coronal- 

 lobes linear-spathulate, straight, three times as long as the outer corona, 

 glabrous, yellowish. 



xrile Iiand. Kingdom of Barri : near Gondokoro, Knohlecher, 35. 



I have not seen this species. The pedicels are not mentioned in tlie d».s<Tiption. 



18. C. mozambicensis, Schlechter in Journ. Hot. isi)5, i>7;;. 

 Stem twining, 1-1 J lin. thick, probably somewhat fleshy, glabrous; 

 internodes 4-7 in. long. Leaves spreading; petiole :J-(I lin. long; 

 l>lade f-lj in. long, 5-10 lin. broad, lanceolate, ovate or elli{)tic, rather 

 ;.bruptly mucronate-acute oi", in the lanceolate forms, more or le.vs 

 acuminate, broadly or acutely cuneate at the base, glabrous, often 

 undulate, setulose-denticulate on the margins, thin in the dried state, 

 but probably somewhat fleshy when'' alive. Peduncles \-\\ in. long, 

 moderately stout, about 2-3-flowered at the apex, glabrous ; br.ict^s 

 J-l lin. long, subulate, glabrous; pedicels 3-5 Hn. long, glabrous. 

 Sepals 2 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. Corolla glabrous 

 outside; tube 1J-1| in. long, slightly curved, inflated for nearly half 

 ics length, constricted at the middle of the inflated part, cylin.lric 

 in the upper, abruptly widened into a short funnel-shaped moiith 

 j-j in. in diam. ; tube externally whitish or greenish, spotted with 

 blackish-purple, basal part below the constriction in-ide purple, 

 greenish or whitish? above, blackish-purple at the inoath, which w 



