Refugium Botanricum. | April, 1868, 
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TAB. 10. 
Natural Order ASCLEPIADACE®. 
Tribe STAPELIES. 
Genus Crroreaia, Linn. 
C. MULTIFLORA, n.sp. Radice napiformi, caule volubile glabro, foliis 
linearibus subteretis sulcatis, floribus 4—-6 pedicellatis in foliorum 
axillis sine pedunculo communi, corolla basi ventricosa, limbi 
laciniis lanceolatis piloso-ciliatis, corone staminoides dentibus exte- 
rioribus connatis, interioribus lingulatis. — Systrepha multiflora, 
Burchell, MSS. 
Root napiform, between fleshy and corky, three or four inches 
thick, projecting a little above the soil, the top nearly flat, the 
outer coat membranous, pale brown, naked. Stem firm, wide- 
twining, slender, string-like, naked. Leaves opposite, reflexed, 
about an inch long, nearly as thick as broad, channelled on the 
face, naked. Flowers in clusters of four to six from the axils, 
without any common peduncle, the pedicels finally three-eighths 
to one-half of an inch long, swollen at the apex. Calyx naked, a 
line deep, cut half-way down, the teeth linear. Corolla half to 
three-quarters of an inch long, greenish purple, swollen into a 
globe at the base, above this a narrow tube half an inch long, the 
divisions lanceolate, erecto-patent, an eighth of an inch deep, 
densely gray-pilose on the inner side, the tips connected by a 
web of slender threads which meet in the centre. Corona in the 
ball, pure white, plaited, the outer row truncate, the inner con- 
sisting of five connivent linear pure white teeth. Pollen-masses 
yellow, ovoid, spreading. 
From the Province of Colesberg, sent, like the preceding, by 
Dr. Arnott, and also grown at Kew. ‘There are dried specimens 
in Dr. Burchell’s collections, and he has given the plant a name 
in manuscript. In characters and habit it comes nearest to 
C’.. linearis, EK. Meyer.—J. G. B. 
