Ceropegia.] Lxxxv. asclepiade^ (brown). 409 



and about 2^ lin. in diam. at tlie mouth, greenish-white, tinge<l a faint 

 dull purple outside, pale purplish within, having a few detlexed hairs 

 in the upper part ; lobes 3-8^ lin. long, erect, connate at the tips, 

 linear from a deltoid base, replicate, keeled along the fold within, 

 greenish, blackish-purple on the keel, covered with rather long deflexed 

 hairs on the inner face. Outer corona ^ lin. long, white, somewhat 

 cup-shaped, shortly lO-lobulate ; 5 of the lobules alternating with the 

 anthers, forming small truncate slightly ciliate pouches, the other .'> 

 opposite the inner coronal-lobes, erect, obtuse ; inner coronal-lobes 1-1{ 

 lin. long, erect, narrowly lanceolate, acute, white. — Gard. Chron. llMil, 

 xxix. 238, fig. «9. 



XMozaxnb. Sist. British Central Africa : Xyasalaiid ; T.oxuhr', cultivatt'ii sjK-ci- 

 men, Buchanan ! 



Described from a cultivated plant sent to Mr. J. O'Brien by Mr. .lolm 

 Buchanan. In tlie dried state the k-aves are tiliform and nuicli more slender than 

 described above, but in the figiire in the Gardeners' Chronicle they are repiesentcd 

 as being much stouter than any 1 have seen. 



40. C. steuantha. A'. Schum. in Engl. Jahrh. xvii. 152. Stem 

 twining, rather slender, glabrous. Leaves thin in the dried state, pro- 

 bably somewhat fleshy when alive; petiole 2-4 lin. long ; blade 1-2^. in. 

 long, 2-Q> lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, apiculate, cuneate-acute at the 

 base, glabrous on both sides, ciliolateon the margin with a few adpressed 

 distant hairs ; midrib prominent beneath. Cymes umbel-like, sub- 

 lateral at the nodes, 3-0-flowered ; peduncles 1^-0 lin. long, glabrous ; 

 bracts minute, subulate, glabrous; pedicels |-2 lin. long, glabrous. 

 Sepals 1 lin. long, scarcely \ lin. broad, subulate, acute, suberect, gla- 

 brous. Corolla straight, glabrous outside and on the lobes within, 

 thinly pilose with extremely fine hairs inside at the base and middle of 

 the tube, apparently concolorous or with the lobes rather darker than 

 the tube, probably greenish ; tube 5-G lin. long, slightly inflated and 

 about \\ lin. in diam. in the basal half, tapering above, not dilated at 

 the mouth, which is about |-1 lin. in diam. ; lobes 'o-<S lin. long, 

 scarcely J lin. broad, linear, replicate, erect, slightly curved, connate at 

 the tips,"not ciliate. Outer corona of 5 minute pouches alternating 

 with the anthers ; inner coronal-lobes J lin. long, flat, linear-lanceolate, 

 obtuse, erect or connivent to about their middle, then recurving, 

 glabrous. 



irile Iiand. Jur : Jur Gliattas, Schtoeinfurth, 2104 ! 



Var. jjarvifolia, N. E. Br. Leaves, at least on the terminal flowering part of 

 the stem, much sliortor than the tlowers they subtend, \-k in. long (including the 

 short petiole), ^-1 lin. bread, linear, mucronate, glabrous, ciliate on the margins. 

 Cymes or umbel-like racemes subsessile or with a tloweiing axis 2-5 lin. h>iig ; 

 pedicels 2-2^ lin. long, glabrous. Calyx, corolla and corona as in the type. 



Mozamb. 3>lst. German East Africa : Coast district, Haniiintffou ! British 

 Central Africa : Rhodesia ; central Leshumo Valley, Holub ! 



41. C. infausta, X. K. Br. Stem twining, slender, glabrous. 

 Leaves membranous ; petiole 2i-4 lin. long; blade | -2j in. long, 4-8 



