Ceropegia.] xcv. ASCLEPIADEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 71 



of C. bulbosa, but the short corolla-lobes are very different. Koxburgh's locality, 

 Samulcottah, has never been explored by a subsequent botanist. 



19. C. intermedia, Wight Ic. t. 1263 ; quite glabrous, leaves long- 

 petioled ovate or elliptic-lanceolate finely acuminate base 3-nerved, corolla 

 straight, lobes subspathulate villous within connate by their tips only, coronal 

 lobes 5 very short or ciliate or glabrous processes long dilated upwards. C. 

 tuberosa, Wall. Cat. 8145 A. 0. Candelabrum, Thwaites Enum. 199. 



TRAVANCORE ; Courtallam and Dindygul, Wight ; Anamallay hills, alt. 2500 ft., 

 Beddome. CEYLON, in the hotter part of the island, Walker, Thwaites. 



Boot fibrous (Beddome). Stem slender. Leaves 2-3 by f-l in., pale yellow- 

 brown when dry ; petiole \-\ in. Peduncles 1-2 in., 3-6-fld., pedicels ^-| in. Sepals 

 subulate. Corolla 1-1| in., pale purplish, base inflated, lobes much shorter than in 

 C. tuberosa. Wight figures the coronal lobes as obsolete and the processes as hairy at 

 the base ; I find 5 minute glabrous lobes. He further figures the lobes of the corolla 

 as linear, but describes them as subspathulate. An excellent drawing from Thwaites 

 of what appears to be this species (his C. Candelabrum, C.P. 774) has purple branches. 

 Wallich's 8145 A, from Heyne, appears to be the same. 



? VAR. Wightii ; leaves lanceolate acuminate, corolla-lobes broader glabrous, 

 coronal lobes ciliate. Courtallam, Wight. Wight calls this C. acuminata, but it 

 differs from Koxburgh's drawing in the leaves with slender petioles and strongly 

 3-nerved at the base. 



20. C. Thwaitesii, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4758 ; quite glabrous, leaves 

 elliptic ovate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate, peduncles 2-3-fld., corolla 2-2 in. 

 base ovoid, throat funnel-shaped, lobes oblong, tip not contracted obtuse erect 

 half the length of the tube, coronal lobes subulate ciliate half as long as the 

 linear straight processes. 



TRAVANCORE ; at Courtallam, Wight ; Peermede Ghat, Beddome. CEYLON ; central 

 province, Gardner, &c. 



Stem rather stout. Leaves 3-4 by 1^-2 in., petiole f-l in. Peduncles stout, 

 1-2 in., pedicels -1 in. Corolla curved, green with purple blotches above the 

 middle of the tube, and a purple band across the lobes above the middle. Follicles 

 (in Peninsular specimens) 10 in. long, very slender. Seeds % in. long. The leaves 

 are figured and described in Bot. Mag. as ciliolate, but I do not detect this in the 

 only Ceylon example I have seen (a most incomplete one). 



ft. Leaves and peduncles pubescent or hispid. 



21. C. hirsuta, Wight fy Am. Contrib. 33 ; hirsute or pubescent, leaves 

 from linear or lanceolate to ovate-cordate acuminate, peduncles hispid, sepals 

 long slender, corolla 1^-2 in. long, base ventricose, lobes suberect oblong obtuse 

 ciliate ^ of the length of the tube, coronal processes hooked. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; from the Concan to Travancore. 



A coarse climber, more or less clothed with subhispid spreading hairs. Leaves 

 2-4 in. ; petiole -1 in. Peduncles \-1 in., very hispid ; pedicels \-\ in. Sepals 

 % in., very slender. Corolla greenish, blotched with purple. Corona very variable, 

 but the processes always broad and curved or hooked at the tip. Follicles 4 in. long, 

 slender. Seeds ^ in., narrowly oblong. After a very tedious examination of the 

 corona in specimens collected at various places between Bombay and Travancore I 

 conclude that the following are referable to one variable plant, an opinion in which I 

 am confirmed by Colonel Beddome; vars. 1-4 are all mixed in Stock's and Dalzell's 

 Herbaria, and none being authentically named I cannot positively say which answers 

 to the species described in the Bombay Flora. 



VAR. 1. hirsuta proper ; all over hirsute except the corolla, coronal lobes 5 short 

 triangular 2-fid ciliate much shorter than the processes. C. hirsuta, Wight I. c. ; Dene, 

 in DC. Prodr. viii. 641. 



