Cerope^ia.] lxxxv. asclepiade.*: (brown). 440 



tube 9 lin. long, glabrous outside, inflated and 'J lin. in diam. at tin* 

 base, 4 lin. in diam. at the funnel-shaped mouth ; lol)es 8 lin. long, 

 connivent and cohering at the tips, deltoid-ovate, acute, replicate, (piite 

 glabrous, not ciliate, apparently dark purple. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet, 791 ! 



Descril)ed from a spechnen in the herbarium of the liritish iMnscniu. whuh \ 

 have not dissected. 



21. C. scandens, K. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, ISO.'), 202. Root 

 fibrous, not tuberous {Welwitsch). Glabrous on all the green parts. 

 Stem twining, moderately stout, about ^ in. thick. Leaves rather 

 lleshy and limp {]Velwltsch) ; petiole (5-10 lin. long; blade 2-:;j in. 

 long, l:j-l|^ in. broad, ovate, oblong-ovate or elliptic-ovate, acuminate 

 or acute, broadly rounded or emarginate at the base, membranous 

 in the dried state, minutely ciliolate. Peduncles ^-1 in. long, umbel- 

 lately 4- 10- flowered ; bracts 1^7-2^ lin. long, subulate, more or less 

 revolute at the tips; pedicels 5-(> lin. long. Sepals 2i-3 lin. long, 

 subulate, with revolute tips. Corolla-tube 9-10 lin. long, curved above 

 the slightly inflated base, where it is 2 lin. in diam., funnel-shaped 

 and 4-5 lin. in diam. at the mouth, glabrous outside and inside ; lobes 

 5 lin. long, erect, connate at the tips, oblong-ovate, replicate, ciliate to 

 their base with vibratile purple hairs, otherwise glabrous, keeled within ; 

 keel somewhat bulging at the middle. (Outside of corolla pale sulphur 

 yellow spotted with blood-red ; inside of the lobes covered with Iohl' 

 white hairs at the apex, and marked at their middle with a large black- 

 purple spot, Welvntsch.) Outer coronal-lobes -\ lin. long, bifid ; teetii 

 erect, ciliate with long hairs on their outer margin ; inner coronal- 

 lobes J lin. long, much overtopping the staminal-column, erect, linear, 

 subacute, glabrous. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw, i. ()9(». 



Iiower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto, hills hy the Coungo Kiver. ni:ir 

 Sange, rare and solitary, Wehvifsch, 4273 ! 4273u I 



22. C. Meyeri-Johannis, Enyl. nochyehirgsjl. Trap. Afr. :)l;5. 

 Stem twining, rather slender, pubescent with short curved retro rse 

 hairs. Leaves herbaceous ; petiole l-'^ in. long; blade 1-1 ^' in. k»n«:, 

 |-1 in. broad, cordate-ovate or cordate-oblong, acuminate, with an acute 

 basal sinus 2-3 lin. deep, pubescent on both sides. Peiluncles 4-7 lin. 

 long, pubescent, umbellately many-flowered ; bracts ^-1 lin. long, 

 lanceolate, pubescent; pedicels ?>h-^^ lin. long, glabrous or with hen- and 

 there a hair. Sepals 2h lin. long, linear, acute, with recurving tip>, 

 hispidulous-pubescent. Corolla glabrous outside ; tube 'l in. lonj-', 

 abruptly curved nearly at a right-angle just above the ovoid- or globose- 

 inflated base, which is 2^-3 lin. in diam., cylindric and \\ lin. in diam. 

 above, broadly and shortly dilated into a funnel-shaped mouth alx)ut I "• 

 lin. in diam. ; mouth and upper part of the tube hairy within, glabrous 

 in the lower part ; lobes \ in. long, narrowly linear from a broadly (h-ltoi. I 

 base, replicate, incurved and connate at their tips, hairy on their inm-i- 

 face. Outer corona 1| lin. long, deeply cup-shaped, Kt-toothe.l to 

 Dearly half-way down ; teeth linear, acute, erect, glabrous ; inner coronal- 



