Ceropeyla.^ lxxkv. ASCLEPiADEiE (brown). 453 



J lin. long staminal-column and much exceeding it, shortly cup-shaped 

 a-t the base, with 5 erect linear more or less bitid lobes or teetli J 

 lin. long, glabrous, white; inner coronal-lobes §-J lin. long, connivent- 

 erect, linear, white, glabrous. Anthers oblong, incumbent on the 

 truncate apex of the style. 



nSozamb. I>ist. British Central Africa : plateau of Mount Zomba, iSOOO- 

 6000 ft., Whi/le/ 



29. C. calcarata, N. E. Br. Stem slender, twining, thinly 

 covered with a minute retiexed pubescence mingled with a few longer 

 hairs. Leaves herbaceous, spreading ; petiole S-15 lin. long, pubescent ; 

 blade lJ-4 in. long, J-3 in. broad, cordate-ovate, obtusely pointed or 

 shortly acuminate ; basal lobes about 2-0 lin. long, rounded, in young 

 plants separated by a narrow sinus, in older plants overlapping and 

 enclosing a small rhomboid sinus ; upper surface green, thinly pubes- 

 cent; under surface paler, puberulous. Cymes sessile or subsessile, 

 umbellately o-G-flovvered in young plants, densely many-flowered in 

 adult plants ; flowers opening in pairs or in succession ; pedicels '^\-b 

 lin. long, rather slender, glabrous. Sepals applied to the base of the 

 corolla, \h lin. long, ^ lin. broad, subulate, acute, somewhat gibbous at 

 the very base, with a few minute hairs on the back. Corolla (when in 

 bud) with 5 short horizontal spurs at the base of the obtuse narrowly 

 conical limb ; tube 9 lin. long, slightly curved immediately above the 

 very abruptly inflated base, which is depressed pear-shaped, 2 lin. long, 

 2}j lin. in diam. ; middle part slender, cylindric, § lin. in diam., 

 dilated at the apex into a funnel-shaped mouth 3 lin. in diam. ; " 

 outside glabrous, dull purple ; inside dark purple in the lower part, 

 passing into dark green above, and at the mouth veined with dark 

 green on a whitish ground, thinly pubescent with long and short hairs 

 in the mouth, glabrous in the lower part, with numerous longitudinal 

 tuberculate ribs in the inflated part ; lobes 3 lin. long, straight, conni- 

 vent-erect, connate at the tips, linear from a deltoid base, replicate, 

 glabrous on the back, dark green within on the margins and at the 

 apex, whitish with a dark green central line on the lower part of the 

 face, covered with deflexed simple hairs on the margins and central 

 part of the keel-like face, those on the face longest. Outer corona 

 arising at the base of the staminal-column, 1 lin. long, cup-shaped, 5- 

 iobed to half-way down, pure white, with the tips of the lobes red and 

 with 5 black spots at the base inside, glabrous; lobes I lin. long ami tin 

 much in breadth at the base, erect or slightly incurved, deltoid- 

 oblong, minutely bifid or 3-toothed at the apex ; inner coronal -lobes 

 very much longer than the anthers, 1 lin. long, filiform, con ni vent- 

 erect, recurved at the apex, dorsally adnate to the outer corona at the 

 very base, glabrous, white, marked with light green at tlie bai>e, blooti- 

 red or carmine at the recurved tips. Anthers narrowly oblong, obtuse, 

 yellow. 



IVXozamb. Ulst. British Central Africa : Nya.saland ; 'Aomho., Ma ^on ! 



Described from a living plant sent to Kewby Mr. Jolin Mahon, which flowered 

 in September 1899. 



