450 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE^ (brown). [^Ceropcgia. 



DCozamb. Slst. British Central Africa : Ngamiland ; Kwebe Hills, 3000 ft., 

 Mrs. Lagard^ 262! also a cultivated specimen, Mrs. Lugard / 



Described p.irtly from Mrs. E. J. Lugard's dried specimen and drawing, and 

 partly from a living i)lant presented by her to Kew. 



33. C. kwebensis, N. E. Br. Stem twining, slender, about f lin. 

 thick, puberulous ; inteinodes 4-5 in. long. Leaves spreading, herba- 

 ceous ; petiole 6-10 lin. long, puberulous; blade l|-2} in. long, J-l|- 

 in. broad, ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, apiculate, very broadly rounded 

 or slightly cordate at the base, when young minutely puberulous on both 

 sides, afterwards almost glabrous above and puberulous on the veins 

 beneath. Cymes axillary, umbellately 10-15-flowered, the flowers 

 developing successively ; peduncles 8-9 lin. long, slender, with a minute 

 scattered pubescence along one side ; bracts minute, subulate ; pedicels 

 4-5 lin. long, slender, glabrous. Sepals 1 lin. long, \ lin. broad, subu- 

 late, glabrous. Corolla-tube |-| in. long, bent at a right-angle imme- 

 diately above the slightly inflated base, which is 2-2\ lin. in diam., 

 cylindric and If lin. in diam. above, dilated into a funnel-shaped mouth 

 i')h lin. in diam., green and glabrous outside, purplish, or dull reddish- 

 brown inside and very sparsely beset with long and very fine hairs ; 

 lobes G-10 lin. long, linear from a short deltoid base 1 J lin. broad, erect, 

 connate at the tips, replicate, green, ciliate and with long fine purple 

 hairs on the inner face. Outer corona cup-shaped, white, tinted with 

 mauve and margined with red, 10-toothed ; teeth \ lin. long, approxi- 

 mate and parallel in pairs behind the inner coronal -lobes, hairy ; inner 

 coronal-lobes 1 lin. long, \ lin. broad or thick, much exceeding the 

 staminal-column, stout, compressed ? falcate, very obtuse, erect, with 

 the tips directed outwards, slightly hairy, white, tinted with mauve on 

 the basal part. 



Mozamb. Bist. British Central Africa : Ngamiland : Kwebe Hills, at 

 3400 ft., apparently rare, Mrs. Lugard, 116 I 



34. C. racemosa, N'. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895. 202. Stem 

 twining, rather slander, glabrous. Leaves probably thinly fleshy ; 

 petiole l|-3 lin. long ; blade 1 J-2 in. long, 4-9 lin. broad, lanceolate 

 or oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, apiculate, rounded at the base, 

 glabrous, but scaberulous above near and along the narrowly revolute 

 margins. Peduncles racemosely few (2-4 ?-) flowered, glabrous, includ- 

 ing the flowering part l|-4 in, long; flowers J-lJ in. apart; bracts 

 opposite, J lin. long, acute ; pedicels 2J-3 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 

 IJ lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Corolla straight, but 

 slightly oblique at its insertion, glabrous outside ; tube about | in, long, 

 cylindric, rather slender and about 1^ lin. in diam. in the lower two- 

 thirds, not inflated at the base ; mouth broadly funnel-shaped, about 

 4-4J lin. in diam. ; inside throughout its length clothed with long 

 straight hairs; lobes 6-7 lin. long, straight, conniventand cohering at 

 the tips, linear from a somewhat dilated base, replicate, fringed with 

 long hairs along the fold within. Outer coronal-lobes very deeply 

 divided, forming 10 obliquely deltoid subacute teeth about J in. long, 



