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_Scandens_; caulis carnosus, glaber. _Folia_ breviter petiolata
matura 3·5-6 cm. longa, 1·5-3·5 cm. lata, late oblonga vel
oblongo-ovata, apice breviter apiculata, basi cordata, glabra;
nervi laterales utrinsecus circiter 4, patuli; petioli circiter 1
cm. longi. _Cymae_ axillares, triflorae; pedicelii usque ad 1·5 cm.
longi, teretes, glabri. _Sepala_ lineari-filiformia, 3-4 mm. longa,
glabra, marginibus leviter hyalinis. _Corolla_ basi subglobosa,
supra basin curvato-erecta, circiter 6 cm. longa, superne
turbinata, apice 2 cm. diametro, extra glabra, maculata, intra
leviter pilosa, lobis e basi lata attenuatis in columnam brevem
cohaerentibus, deinde apice corpusculam globosam 5-fenestratum
ciliatam formantibus. _Corona_ exterior cupularis, lobis 5 latis
emarginatis columna staminalis sequilonga intra pilis longis
gracilibus ciliatis; corona interior erecta, lobis conniventibus
apice recurvatis. _Follicula_ circiter 14 cm. longa,
falcato-recurvata, apice sub-uncinata.--J. H.
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In our last number (Plate 39) we figured a species of _Ceropegia
Rendallii_, which belongs to a group of the genus characterised by
having the corolla-lobes united into an umbrella-like canopy supported
by five short stalks. The present species has the corolla-lobes free at
the base, then connate into a slender column, again becoming free and
then connate at the tips, forming a small terminal cage-like body.
It shares this character with _Ceropegia Haygarthii_, Schlechter, and in
this respect the two species are unique amongst the South African
species. In _C. Haygarthii_, however, the corolla is very widely globose
at the base, the calyx lobes are longer, and the peculiar stalk to the
corolla lobes is at least three or four times as long. These differences
seem to warrant the description of a new species. The curiously shaped
flowers should make this species an object of interest in the
greenhouse.
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