460 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE.E (brown). [Ceropegia. 



\\n. broad, lanceolate-oblong or oblong, acute, narrowed at the base, 

 minutely denticulate or serrulate, glabrous on both sides. Umbels 

 from one axil of each pair of leaves, 3-6-flowored ; bracts subulate, gla- 

 brous; pedicels slender, glabrous. Sepals 2-2^ lin. long, subulate, 

 glabrous. Corolla glabrous ; tube 7 Un. long, slightly inflated and 

 somewhat curved ; lobes 6 lin. long, narrowly linear, cohering at the 

 tips, subsagittate at the base, with replicate margins. Coronal-lobes 

 very short, truncate, the outer (inner ?) clavate. Staminal-column 1 

 lin. long. — Riocreuxia lo7iyiflora, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 459. 



Mozamb. IDist. German East Africa : between Kbutu and Uiiehe at the 

 River Mloha, 2900 ft., Goetze, 495b. 



Unknown to ine. According to the description this plant is a Ceropegia, and 

 appears to be very closely allied to C, stenantha, K. Sclium. The specific name 

 given by K. Schmnann is already occupied under Ceropegia. The author does not 

 state whether the umbels are sessile or pedunculate. 



42. C. floribunda, N. E. Br. Stem twining, |-1 lin. thick, 

 glabrous; incernodes lf-3J in. long in the flowering part. Leaves 

 apparently ilesh}^, rather rigid in the dried state ; petiole 1-3 lin. long ; 

 blade J-1 in. long, ^— | in. broad (probably larger in the lower leaves), 

 elliptic or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or retuse, apiculate, broadly rounded or 

 somewhat cuneate at the base, glabrous above, sparsely and very 

 minutely pubescent beneath, very minutely ciliate. Flowers very 

 numerous, in dense sessile globose many-flowered umbels or clusters, 

 which are lateral at every node ; bracts minute |— f lin. long, subulate, 

 glabrous; pedicels l-lj lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 1 lin. long, linear- 

 subulate, glabrous. Corolla straight, glabrous outside, sparsely hairy 

 inside the cylindric part of the tube, green or yellowish-green, with the 

 inflated part of the tube purplish on both sides; tube J in. long, lf-2 

 lin. in diam. at the globose-inflated base, cylindric and about J lin. in 

 diam. above, not dilated at the mouth ; lobes \ in. long, J lin. broad at 

 the base, erect, connate at the tips, linear-attenuate, flat on the back, 

 not [replicate, glabrous, not ciliate. Outer corona ^ lin. long, cup- 

 shaped, obtusely pentagonal, truncate, not toothed, glabrous, white; 

 inner-coronal lobes much exceeding the anthers, connivent-erect, ^ lin. 

 long, |- lin. broad, linear-spathulate, very obtuse, glabrous, white. 

 Anthers ovate, obtusely apiculate. Follicles about 6 in. long and \ in. 

 thick, terete, tapering to an acute apex, according to Mrs. Lugard's 

 drawing. 



»£ozaxat>. lidist. British Central Africa : Ngamiland ; Kwebe Mills, 3000 ft., 

 very rare, 3Irs. Lugard, 161 ! 



43. C, medoeusis, iV. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 262. Stem 

 erect, simple, shortly and softly villous, about 1 J ft. high. Leaves dis- 

 tant ; petiole J-lJ lin. long; blade f-2J in. long; J— Ij in. broad, 

 ovate, ovate-lanceola,te or oblong, subacute, rounded or -subcordate at 

 the base, concolorous and shortly and softly pilose on both sides, with 

 the hairs rather denser at the ciliate margins. Flowers 1-2 at the apex 

 of the stem, large ; pedicels 2-4 lin. long, pubescent. Sepals 3-3J lin. 



