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CEROPEGIA africana. — 
Cape Ceropegia. 
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PENTANDRIA DIGYNI4A. 
Nat. ord. ASCLEPIADEE. Brown in Wern. trans. edinb. 1.12. Id, 
prod. 1. 458; et supra vol. 2. fol, 111. Div. J. ASCLEPIADER VERR. 
Masse pollinis 10, leves, per paria (diversis antheris pertinentia), affixe 
stigmatis corpusculis, sulco longitudinali bipartibilibus. _£%lamenta con- 
nata, extis spits appendiculata. ze Hi i 
CEROPEGIA.. Asclepiadea. Cor. tubulosa, basi ventricosa, limbi 
laciniis ligularibus conniventibus: wstiyatione valvata. Columna fructifi- 
cationis inclusa. Corona staminea 10-fida : laciniz 5 antheris distinctis op- 
positz longiores cum 5 reliquis (indivisis bifidisye) alternantes. Masse pol- 
linis erecte. Herb glabre sepiis volubiles, radice tuberosd. Umbelle 
interpetiolares, nunc pauciflore. Brown MSS. 
C. africana, pedunculis 2-3-floris, foliis ovato-lanceolatis carnosis, limbo 
corolla barbato, corone laciniis longioribus aversis falcato-recuryis ; 
brevioribus indivisis. Brown MSS. . 
Radix: tuber«pro ratione herbe 3-6-uncialis magnum. Caulis simplex, 
sepivs volubilis. Folia acuta, planiuscula, avenia, breve petiolata, divaricata 
apicibus subrecurvis, semuncialia. Spica rara é pedunculis alternis brevibus 
2-3-floris, pedicellis brevibus minuté bracteolatis. Flores erecti, inferiore 
precociore. Cal. 5-partitus, laciniis lineari-subulatis modicé patentibus basi 
ventricosd tubi corolle fere ter brevioribus. Corolla: tubus é basi obovato- 
lobosé obsolete pentagond viridi cylindraceus, fauce infundibuliformi striata ; 
limbi lacinie lineares intus marginibusque pilis coloratis patulis acutis bar- 
bate, erecte apicibus conniventibus leviterque coherentibus: limbus inexpansus 
prismatico-pentagonus fauce pentagoné angulis extantibus cum laciniis limbi 
alternantibus. Columna. fructificationis bast ventricosd tubi inclusa. Corona 
apict tubi staminet brevis inserta monophylla decemloba: Lobi quingue cum 
staminibus alternantes abbreviati indivisi obtusi basi saccati: quinque reliqui 
st. interiores antheris oppositi aliquoties longiores margiue tnteriort trun- 
cato-canaliculato exteriort in aciem attenuato. \Anthere distincte ovate 
loculis lateralibus longitudinaliter dehiscentibus appendice apicis carnoso 
brevi acuto stigmate incumbente. Massie pollinis minute supra basin affixe 
subglobose. Stigma muticum. Brown MSS. 
A very curious unrecorded species, now first introduced 
from the Cape of Good Hope. The masterly description is 
by Mr. Brown, who has so far modified the character of 
the genus with respect to that defined by himself in his il- 
lustration of the natural order, in the Memoirs of the 
Wernerian Natural History Society, as to fit it for the re- 
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