Ceropegia.] lxxxv. AscLEPiADEiE (brown). 4G3 



tube h in. long, about 2 lin. in diam., subcylindric, slightly constricted 

 just below the mouth, which is about 2 lin. in diam., glabrous outside 

 and inside, whitish, with the base and a band above the middle 

 purplish; lobes 5 lin. long, erect, connate at the tips, spathulate; lower 

 half linear, | lin. broad, flat ; spathulate part 1-1 1 lin. bioad, narrowly 

 ■elliptic, replicate, apparently blackish or greenish-black, which colour 

 -extends to the mouth of the tube, outside sparsely pubescent towards 

 the tips, glabrous within. Corona arising about J lin. above the base 

 of the staminal-column, about 1 lin. long, black, quite glabrous ; outer 

 coronal-lobes reduced to minute pallid notched pouches, reaching to 

 the level of the anthers; inner coronal-lobes J lin. long, conni vent- 

 erect, linear, spathulate (? trigonous). — C. hirsuta, Hochst. ex Decne. 

 in DC. Prod. viii. 644. 



wrile Xiand. Abyssinia: Tigre; near Gafta, Schimper, 14161 and without 

 precise locality, Schimper, 368 ! 



Both A. Richard and Vatke have mistaken C. loranthiflora for tliis species. 



48. C. vignaldiana, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Ahyss. ii. 4s. Tuber 

 globose. Stem herbaceous, 3-4 in. high, not twining. Leaves \-\\ 

 in. long, l2^-2J lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, acute, attenuate at the 

 b.ise, scarcely petiolate, glabrous. Umbels lateral, very shortly 

 pedunculate, 2-3-flowered ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long. Sepals about H 

 lin. long, lanceolate, acute. Corolla- tube about 1 in. long, curved above 

 the globose-inflated base, rather slender, abruptly dilated at the mouth, 

 purplish at the base, greenish above ; lobes about 3i lin. long, erect, 

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

 green. Corona campanulate, with 5 long narrow ligulate (subulate ?) 

 acute lobes (probably the inner coronal-lobes, the outer ones are probably 

 small and pouch-like). — Walp. Ann. iii. 67. 



ITile Xiand. Abyssinia: Wojerat; in the Sensata meadows, Fetit (ex 

 Richard.') 



I have only seen a drawing of this plant copied from a coloured drawing made 

 l)y Vignald, which accompanies Richard's type specimen in the HerV)arium of 

 31. Drake del Castillo, from which I partly describe. 



49. C. Steudneri, Vatke in Linncea, xl. 217. Tuber globose, 

 i-J in. in diam. Stem solitary, erect, not twining, simple, hairy, 

 growing to more than 20 in. high. Leaves petiolate in th6 lower part, 

 subsessile on the upper part of the stem ; petiole up to J in. long ; 

 blade 1-2 J in. long, and up to 1 in. in breadth ; lower leaves oval 

 {ovate ?), upper oval-oblong, acute, all crenulate, pilose. Cymes sessile, 

 1-6-flowered ; pedicels about J in. long, slender, hairy. Calyx-lobes 

 subulate, hairy. Corolla 7 lin. long, straight ; tube more or less 

 ventricose, about 3 times as long as the sepals, striate ; lobes ol>ovate- 

 oblong, connate at the tips, more or less hairy outside towards the apex. 

 Corona simple ; segments united at the base, produced above into 

 fleshy ligules ; ligules free, black, furnished with a tuft of long hairs at 

 the base, puberulous at the apex, glabrous elsewliere. — Engl. 



