Microstephanus.| | UXXXV. ASCLEPIADE® (BROWN). 289 
2-3 lin. long; blade 3-1} in. long, 1$~7 lin. broad, lanceolate, oblong, 
elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, apiculate or subacute, rather 
thick and perhaps fleshy when alive, margins flat or revclute. Cymes 
lateral or subaxillary, 1—4-flowered ; peduncles 1-2 lin. long; pedicels 
1}-24 lin. long, slender, straight or recurved, glabrous; bracts } lin. 
long, ovate, acute. Calyx-lobes 3 lin. long, ovate, acute, glabrous. 
Corolla 2} lin. in diam., glabrous outside ; tube campanulate 1 lin. long, 
sparsely pubescent within; lobes 1 3-2 lin. long, suberect, linear, 
obliquely obtuse, slightly twisted, glabrous. Coronal-lobes minute, thin 
and flat, forming little pockets alternating with the anthers at their 
base; on the backs of the anthers are also 5 pairs of indistinct diverg- 
ing ridges, which may perhaps form part of the corona, easily over- 
looked. Staminal column 3-3 lin. long ; anther-appendages ovate, acute, 
connivent-erect around the base of the apical part of the style, which 
1s produced beyond them into a subulate entire or bifid beak 1-14 lin. 
long.— A stephanus cernuus, Decne. and A. ovatus, Decne. in Ann. Se. 
Nat. sér. 2. ix, 342; and in DC. Prod. viii. 507; K. Schum. in Engl. 
PA. Ost-Afr. C. 321. A. arenarius, Decne. in DC. Prod. vili. 507. A. 
recurvatus, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 274; K. Schum. 
in Engl. Pl. Ost-Afr. C. 321, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 
224, Periploca ovata, Poir. ex Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 508. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Mombasa, Hildebrandt, 1166! 1978! 
Mozamb. Dist. Pemba Island, Bojer (ex Decaisne). Zanzibar, Kirk! 
Bojer (ex Decaisne). German East Africa: Usambara, Muoa, Holst, 3037! Por- 
he East Africa : Mozambique Island, on coral rocks, Scott! Cabaceira Grande, 
irk | 
Also in Madagascar and Aldabra Island. 
14, PODOSTELMA, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 1338. 
Calyx 5-lobed to half-way down. Corolla-tube short, campanulate ; 
obes elongate, narrow, ascending or spreading, overlapping and twisted 
to the left in the bud. Corona of 5 minute tubercles or lobes radiating 
from about the middle or towards the base of the filament part of the 
staminal column,opposite the anthers. Staminal-column arising from near 
the bottom of the corolla-tube, contracted below the anthers and fur- 
rowed ; anthers erect, their wings much projecting ; appendages erect, 
membranous. Pollen-masses pendulous, solitary in each anther-cell, much 
shorter than the linear-oblong pollen-carriers, to which they are attached 
Y very short caudicles. Style produced into a long beak, exserted 
yond the anthers, Follicles lanceolate, acuminate, smooth and gla- 
rous. Seeds crowned by a tuft of hair—A much branched shrub, with 
Some of the branches twining. Leaves opposite. Flowers small, in 
sublateral or subaxillary few-flowered fascicles or sessile cymes. 
Species 1, endemic, 
Allied to Astephanus, but distinguished from that genus by its corvlla 5 by the 
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