Astephaius. | ASCLEPIADE® (Brown). 549 
pubescent ; bracts minute, subulate ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long, more or 
less pubescent ; sepals 1-11 lin. long, } lin. broad, lanceolate or 
oblong-lanceolate, subacuminate, with a few scattered hairs on 
the back; corolla campanulate, white outside, rosy-purple within 
(Burchell), glabrous with the exception of the 5 hairy patches at 
the base of the tube inside ; tube scarcely 1 lin. long; lobes spread- 
ing or somewhat recurved, 14 lin. long, % lin. broad, oblong-lanceo- 
late, minutely emarginate at the apex; staminal column $ lin. long, 
filament part very short; apex of the style beak-like, produced 
about 1 lin. beyond the anther-tips ; follicle terete-fusiform, beaked, 
glabrous, not seen in a ripe condition, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 
1896, 418. 
South AFRICA: without locality, Nelson! Forbes, 342! Grey! Hooker, 
417! 
Coast REGION: Paarl Div.; road to Paarde Berg, Prior! Cape Div. ; 
Camps Bay, Prior! Muisen Berg, Harvey / climbing among shrubs by the sea- 
shore, near Simons Town, 20 ft., Bolus, 4934! and in MacOwan ¥ Bolus, Herb. 
Norm. Austr.-Afr., 1081 | Schlechter, 12, 13, and 1080 ex Schlechter ; at the top of 
Red Hill Road, Wolley Dod, 2650! Knysna Div.; on sand-hilis at Plettenberg 
Bay, Burchell, 5807! Bredasdorp Div. ; Mier Kraal, 200 ft., Schlechter, 10510! 
IX. MICROLOMA, R. Br. 
Calyz 5-partite. Corolla urceolate or tubular, 5-lobed; tube 
5-angled, often more or less inflated at the base, furnished inside 
with 5 tufts of deflexed hairs opposite the lobes; lobes broad or 
narrow, spirally arranged and more or less closing the mouth of 
the tube. Corona 0 or of 5 small tubercles or fleshy scales at 
the middle or near the apex of the corolla-tube, alternating with 
the hairy tufts. Staminal column arising from the base of the 
corolla, more or less contracted under the anthers ; anthers connivent, 
terminated by erect membranous appendages, which are more or less 
connate at the tips; anther-wings horny, produced at the middle 
or at the base into triangular or spur-like projections. Pollen-masses 
solitary in each cell, pendulous, long, linear, attached to the small, 
rather narrow pollen-carrier, by short caudicles. Style with a conical, 
minutely bifid apex, not produced beyond the anther-appendages. 
Follicle solitary by abortion, fusiform, beaked. Seeds crowned with 
a tuft of hairs, 
Perennials with slender twining stems, or dwarf, much-branched shrublets ; 
leaves small, opposite; flowers in small umbel-like cymes, subaxillary. 
Distris. Species 10, endemic. 
* Plants distinctly twining (see also M. incanum) ; 
branches nearly or quite glabrous, except in M. 
sagittatum : 
Corolla-lobes not laterally compressed, sub- 
orbieular, very obtuse ; leaves linear : : 
Hairy tufts inside the corolla placed just : 
below the mouth of the tube =... s.- (1) ‘tenuifolium. 
