620 ADDENDA. 



I lin. long, oblong-ovate, very minutely pilose. Corolla-tube 1^- lin. 

 long ; lobes 2 lin. long, villous on the inner face, but more densely near 

 the base. Coronal-lobes arising 1^ lin. up the 2 J lin. long staminal- 

 column, |-1 lin. long, ligulate, oblong, acute. Style-apex produced 

 about 1 lin. long beyond the coronal-lobes into a 2-lobed beak. 

 Upper Guinea. Camcroons : Batanga, DinMage, 726. 



2. Fockea Schinzii, N.E.Br. To the synonymy of this species 

 should probably be referred F. muUiJiora, 'De Wild. Etudes Fl. 

 Katanga, i. 110. 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State: near Lukufu, Verdick^VIY, 190 and 225. 



17a. Ceropegia gemmifera, K. Schiom. in Engl. Jahrh. xxxiii. 

 328. Stem twining, branching, somewhat fleshy, with short thick 

 branchlets \-\\ in. long, having 1-4 internodes, glabrous. Leaves few, 

 fleshy; petiole 2-3 J lin. long; blade lJ-1^ in. long, 3-8 lin. broad, 

 ovate, acute, or shortly acuminate, broadly cuneate at the base, 

 glabrous, ciliate with a few hairs. Peduncles lateral at the nodes, up 

 to T) lin. long, bearing 1 or 2 flowers. Pedicels 2^ lin. long. Sepals 2 

 lin. long, narrowly linear. Corolla-tube 13 lin. long, scarcely inflated at 

 the base, dilated above the middlq, green, spotted with purple-brown, 

 hairy inside below the middle ; lobes deltoid, replicate, connate at the 

 tips, emerald-green, with a black spot at the . middle and a yellowish- 

 white spot below it with some long blackish (dark purple ?) scattered 

 hairs. Outer coronal-lobes \\ lin. long, clavate, erect, red, brown at 

 the base and yellowish-white at the tips. — K. Schum. Monatsschr. flir 

 Kakt. xiii. 79. 



Upper Guinea. Togo : near Lome, Warnecke, 242. 



Kemarkable for its short thick axillary branchlets which probably fall and 

 reproduce the plant. 



22a. Ceropegia Verdickii, De Wild. Etudes Fl. Katanga,\, 109. 

 Stem twining, pubescent. Leaves spreading ; petiole about 8 in. (" 20 

 cm.") long; blade up to If in. long and 1 in. broad, oblong-cordate, 

 acuminate, sometimes slightly 3-lobed, pubescent on both sides, with 

 prominent veins beneath. Cymes lateral, subsessile, or with a thick 

 peduncle up to IJ lin. long, 3-11-flowered. Bracts linear, pubescent. 

 Pedicels 3J-4 lin. long. Sepals lJ-2 lin. long, linear, pubescent. 

 Corolla about 9^ lin. long ; tube inflated and about If lin. in diam. at 

 the base, ^ lin. in diam. at the middle enlarging to 2^ lin. at the mouth, 

 glabrous outside ; lobes about 2 lin. long, pubescent with spreading 

 hairs, purple. Corona J lin. long, otherwise undescribed. 



South Central. Congo Free State : Lukafu, Verdick, 389. 



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29a. Ceropegia Bonafouxii, F. Schum. in Engl. Jahrh. xxxiii. 

 327. Stem twining, slender, subtomentose, with scattered longer 

 hairs. Leaves herbaceous; petiole 4-5 lin. long ; blade 1^-1 J in. long, 



