Ceropeyia.] lxxxv. ASCLEPiADEiE (brown). 451 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Krobo Plains, Johnson. 499 I L^gos : Abeo- 

 kuta, Millen, 89 (1895 collection) ! 



25. C. Johnsoni, N. E. Br. Stem tw-ining, 1-U lin. thick, (juite 

 glabrous, even on the youngest parts. Leaves spreading, herbaceous ; 

 petiole h-1 in. long, clothed with a short spreading pubescence ; blade 

 H-4J in. long, ^-'2 in. broad, ovate, oblong or ovate-oblong, varying 

 from obtuse to acuminate, but always terminating in a slender linear- 

 filiform point H-2i lin. long, cordate at the batse, very thinly pubescent 

 or almost glabrous above, densely pubescent with spreading hairs on 

 the midrib and principal veins beneath, and thinly so between them. 

 Cymes pedunculate, umbellately 8-G-flowered ; peduncles J-1 in. long, 

 •with very short spreading hairs; bracts very minute ; pedicels ;>-(; lin. 

 long, shortly hairy. Sepals 2 lin. long, \ lin. broad, linear, acute, 

 applied to the base of the corolla, spreading at the tips, shortly hairy. 

 Corolla curved ; tube 1^-1 3^ in. long, 2 lin. in diam. at the ovoid inflated 

 base, narrower above, 5 lin. in diam. at the funnel-shaped mouth, appa- 

 rently dull purple in the lower part, whitish, spotted with purple on the 

 dilated upper part, greenish inside the throat, thinly pubescent outside, 

 pubescent within in the lower part ; lobes 4 lin. long, erect, cohering at 

 the incurved tips, replicate, very broad, 2|-3 lin. across when folded, 

 whitish, veined with purple on the upper part and with green on the 

 basal part, thinly pubescent on both sides, with a few short hairs at 

 the cohering tips. Outer corona about | lin. long, cup-shaped, 5-lobed ; 

 lobes J lin. long, ^ lin. broad, subrectangular, obtuse or emarginate, 

 somewhat spreading, concave, ciliate with rather long hairs ; inner 

 coronal-lobes 1^ lin. long, erect, linear-filiform, shortly revolute at the 

 apex. Follicles 10-11 in. long, 2-2|- lin. thick, linear-terete, beaked 

 at the apex, glabrous. Seeds Jin. long, H lin. broad, linear-oblong, 

 tapering into a. short beak, dark brown, surrounded by a broad 

 thickened light brown border, crowned with a tuft of long white hairs. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Aburi, Johnson, 768 ! 



The corolla-tube of all the flowers examined was tilled with many small tlies, all 

 -apparently of one species. 



26. C\e\icot2en\2iy K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrh. xvii. 151. Tuber 

 depressed hemispherical ( Welwitsch). Stem twining, herbaceous, rather 

 slender, with a spreading, pubescence. Leaves herbaceous ; petiole 

 5-8 lin. long, pubescent ; blade 1^-2 J in. long, 5-10 lin. broad, ovate- 

 lanceolate to oblong, acuminate, cordate at the base (truncate or sub- 

 cordate, Schumann)^ pubescent on both sides, but the hairs are shorter 

 and more numerous beneath. Cymes umbel-like, subsessile, 4-r)- 

 flowered ; bracts li-2J lin. long, villous; pedicels J-i in. long, slender, 

 villous. Sepals 2^-3 lin. long, subulate, villous. Corolla straight ; 

 tube cylindric, very slightly inflated at the base, about 4 lin. long, 

 1 J-U- lin. in diam., glabrous, pale sulphur-yellow outside, more intense 

 within, with two purple bands at the base and another near the top ; 

 lobes about 3 lin. long, erect, linear, cohering at the tips, replicate, 

 pubescent on the back, glabrous within, with a narrow wing-like keel 



