Plate 39. 



CEROPEGIA Eendallii. 



Transvaal. 



Asclepiadaceae. Tribe Ceropegieae. 

 Ceropegia, Linn. ; Smth. et EooJc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 779. 



Ceropegia Rendallii, N.E. Br. in Keiv Bull, 1894, p. 100; Fl. Cap. vol. iv. 



sect. 1, p. 814. 



An exceedingly quaint and graceful little plant, and an 

 acquisition to the greenhouse. 



Our illustration was made from a specimen collected by 

 Dr. Ethel M. Doidge at Ondersfepoort, near Pretoria, and 

 grown at the Division of Botany. The locality is a new 

 record for the species as hitherto it had only been known 

 from the Barberton and Lydenburg Districts. 



The claw of the petal-lobes are united into a single 

 column in the young flowers but in the older flowers become 

 separated. 



The species was first described by Mr. N. E. Brown, in 

 1894, and is now figured for the first time. 



Description : — Eootstock a flattened tuber, 2*5 cm. in diameter. 

 Stem twining, slender, glabrous. Leaves 1*2-2 '5 cm. long, 5-8 

 mm. broad, linear or linear-oblong, somewhat fleshy, apiculate, 

 glabrous, sometimes with a slight ciliation on the margins. 

 Peduncles 1*5-2 cm. long, slender, with 2 small bracts about 

 the middle, 1-3 flowered. Sepals subulate. Corolla-tube 2 cm. 

 long, globose at the base, contracted into a funnel-shaped 

 tube much dilated at the throat; lobes united into an um- 

 brella-shaped canopy supported on claws about 5 mm. long. 

 Outer-corona about 1 mm. long, of 5 small pocket-like lobes, 

 truncate at the top or rising into a minute deltoid point 

 at the dorsal angle, inner coronal-lobes about 1 mm. long, 

 falcate, recurved. Follicles about 10 cm. long, 3 mm. in 

 diameter, terete, tapering from about the middle to a slightly 



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