Ceropegia.] lxxxv. asclepiade.-e (buown). 455 



half-way down, the segments Hnear and divergent-curved at their tips ; 

 inner coronal-lobes 1 lin. long, erect, linear, arising just within the 

 sinuses between the lobes of the outer corona and neitlier incuml>ent 

 on, nor inflexed over the anthers. Staminal-column If-'^ lin. long ; 

 filaments of the stamens very shortly free above their "attachment to 

 the dilated top of the style ; anthers small, oblong, inflexed over the 

 convex top of the style. — Walp. Ann. iii. G7. C. rinyens, Yatke in 

 Linnsea, xl. 219; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 343; K. Schum. in 

 Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 27:^, fig. 81, E, not of A. Rich. 



Nile Itand. Abyssinia: Befremeder ; Gomaro Valley, 6500 ft., Schimper, 

 1171! and mountain slopes towards the River Rel), 7500 ft., Schimpur, \2^)\ 

 Khireh Province, Quart in Dillon (ex Richard). 



f>2. C. Iiugardse, A". E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1901, xxx. ;><»i\ 

 Stem twining or rambling, 1-1 J lin. thick, glabrous; internode.s 

 1^-1 J in. long. Leaves thin, herbaceous, green, spreading ; petiole 4-0 

 lin. long, terete, channelled above, puberulous in the channel ; blade 

 J-2 in. long, |-1 in. broad, oblong, notched at the apex, with an 

 apiculus or cusp in the notch, or occasionally obtuse, apiculate, cordate, 

 subtruncate, rounded or cuneate at the base, flat or wavy, glabrous on 

 both sides, very minutely ciliate on the margins. Cymes lateral at the 

 nodes, subumbellately 3-6-flowered, the flowers developing successively ; 

 peduncles |-1J in. long, h-'i lin. thick, glabrous ; bracts minute, subu- 

 late ; pedicels 3—6 lin. long, glabrous, green, spotted with purple 

 towards the apex. Sepals 1^-2 lin. long, J lin. broad, subulate, 

 glabrous, purple-dotted. Corolla- tube about 1 in. long, abruptly curved 

 immediately above the globose-inflated base, which is about | in. in 

 diam. and has 5 depressions outside on the lower part opposite the 

 sepals, forming a slight constriction there, cylindric above the inflation, 

 and dilated at the apex into a funnel-shaped mouth about h in. in 

 diam. ; outside white at the very base, very light green on the inflated 

 part, then white passing into sulphur-yellow on the dilated part, and 

 except at the very base covered with purple spots; inside hairy at the 

 base and in the upper half, glabrous in the middle part, rich blackish- 

 crimson on the basal half, sulphur-yellow above, with the purple spots 

 on the outside faintly showing through; lobes 1)-1U lin. long, 

 connivent-erect, connate at the tips, broadly deltoid in the basal half, 

 linear-spathulate in the upper half, replicate, sulphur-yellow (pale 

 greenish, veined with purplish-brown on the basal part, according to 

 Mrs. Lugard's drawing), ciliate with very fine white hairs on the 

 margins and on the basal part of the keel inside. Outer corona 1 

 lin. long, cup-shaped, 5-lobed ; lobes about § lin. long, deltoid-ovate, 

 bifid to nearly half-way down, with parallel teeth, dark purple-brown, 

 covered with long white simple hairs on the inner side ; inner coronal- 

 lobes \h lin. long, standing high above the staminal-column, stoutly 

 filiform^ obtuse, connivent-erect, with recurved tips, hairy and purple- 

 brown at the base where adnate to the outer corona, glabrous and 

 yellow above, with purplish tips. 



