Ceropegia.] xcv. ASCLEPIADE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 69 



glabrous. Corolla 1J- If in., spotted with dark purple, base globose or oblong and 

 gibbous, crown f 1 in. diam. Follicles 79 in., very slender, terete, membranous. 

 Seeds nearly ^ in. long, linear, convex on one face, deeply grooved on the opposite 

 one.- I can detect no character, except perhaps the shorter and more obtuse coronal 

 lobes, whereby to distinguish C. sphenanantha. 



The coronal lobes are described by Wight as hirsute, but they are perfectly glabrous 

 in ten flowers I have examined, and they are so represented in a drawing made in the 

 Calcutta Garden, and in another made from specimens grown at Kew. Wight's 

 specimen is accompanied with a loose sketch of a hairy corona, placed in a cover with 

 a loose flower, in which latter the corona is glabrous. 



11. C. mysorensis, Wight Ic. t. 846; glabrous or petioles and leaf- 

 nerves beneath minutely hairy, leaves ovate acuminate, corolla-lobes ovate 

 naked, coronal lobes long subulate glabrous, processes filiform. 



\ MYSORE and TRAVANCORE ; on the Pulney Mts., Wight. 



This very closely resembles C. elegans in habit, and the form and size of the 

 flowers, but the latter are of a very pale straw colour or greenish, and the lobes are 

 entirely naked. Leaves 1^-2 in. long. Sepals in. subulate. Corolla 1-1^ in. 



12. C. Walkeriae, Wight Ic. t. 1266; quite glabrous, leaves ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate acuminate, corolla-lobes ovate naked, coronal lobes 10 linear, 

 glabrous nearly as long as the linear processes. 



CEYLON, Walker, Wight. 



Very similar to and probably a variety of C. mysorensis, but the leaves are 3-4 

 in. long, the sepals are longer, ^-^ in., the corolla much larger, 2-2^ in. long, blotched 

 with purple, the tube narrower above the globose base, and the coronal lobes different. 



13. C. G-ardneri, Hook. Sot. Mag. t. 5306; quite glabrous, leaves 

 lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate, corolla-lobes ovate-cordate ciliate, 

 coronal lobes 10 linear ciliate, processes rather longer linear. Thwaites Enum. 

 199. 



CEYLON; Eamboddy. alt. 4-5000 ft., Gardner, &c. 



Except by the ciliate coronal lobes I do not see how dried specimens of this can 

 be distinguished from C. elegans. According both to the figure in the Botanical 

 Magazine, and to a sketch made in Ceylon, the leaves are purplish beneath. Thwaites, 

 who joins both C. -mi/sure t) sis and Walkerics with C. elegans, regards Gardneri as 

 distinct, but does not say on what grounds. According to drawings sent by him to 

 Sir W. Hooker, the Cingalese plant called by him C. elegans has very broad leaves, 

 a greenish corolla spotted pale-purple with a hemispheric crown of green cordate 

 lobes tipped with dark purple and fimbriate at the tips only, whereas C. Gardneri has 

 a deep purple black corolla with a depressed crown of much broader lobes ciliated at 

 the base only. The follicles and seeds of Thwaites' specimen of Gardneri precisely 

 accord with those of C. 



14. C. longifolia, Wall. PI. As. Ear. i. 56, t. 73, and Cat. 8136 ; sparsely 

 puberulous, leaves shortly petioled elongate- or linear-lanceolate acuminate, 

 corolla-lobes ovate ciliate, coronal lobes 10 lanceolate ciliate, processes linear 

 twice as long. Wight Contrib. 31 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 642. C. lanceo- 

 lata, Wight 1. c. ; Wall. Cat. 8139 ; Dene. I. c. 643. 



CENTRAL HIMALAYA, Nepal, Wallich ; Kumaon, alt. 4-5000 ft., Edgeworth. 



Stem with a line of pubescence. Leaves 5-8 by f-l in., base acute or rounded ; 

 petiole \-% in. Peduncle 1-1^ in., hairy ; pedicels fascicled, -i in. ; bracts subulate. 

 Sepals \ in., very slender. Corolla l in., green spotted dark purple, tube curved; 

 lobes very broadly ovate. Follicles 6 in. long, very slender. Seeds % in., linear- 

 oblong, concavo-convex. Approaches C. lucida, differing in the much broader shorter 

 head of the corolla and longer sepals. Wight describes C. lanceolata as glabrous and 

 as having the coronal lobes shorter than the column, thus placing it in a different 



