Microloma. | ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 551 
forming a spiral rosette closing the mouth of the tube; corona- 
tubercles small, obtuse, ascending, placed at the middle of the 
corolla-tube, on a level with the base of the tufts of hairs; staminal 
column 2 lin, long, 5-spurred at the middle; filament part stout, 
conical; follicles solitary, 21-3 in. long, 3}—4 lin. thick, fusiform, 
tapering into a rather long point, minutely bifid at the apex; seeds 
2 lin. long, ovate, coneave on one face, very convex on the other, 
tuberculate. M. lineare, R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 53; Sehultes, 
Syst. Veg. vi. 121; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 855; E. Meyer, Comm. 
232; Harv. Gen. 8. Afr. Pl. ed. 1, 228; Thes. Cap. 1. 58, t. 92; 
G. Don, Gen, Syst. iv. 158; Dietr. Synop. Pl. ii. 909; Decne in 
DC. Prodr, viii. 510; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 827. M. linearis, 
O. Kuntze in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. iv. 268. M. tenuiflora, 
O. Kuntze in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. iv. 268. M. tenutfolia, 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 418. Periploca tenuifolia, and 
var. B, Linn, Sp. Pl. ed. i, 212; Thunb. in Nov. Act. Acad. 
Petrop. xiv. (1805), 517. Ceropegia tenuifolia, Linn. Mant. ii. 
215, 346; Thunb. Prodr. i. 37, Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 147, and ed. 
Schultes, 231; Pers. Syn. i. 277; Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14, 255; 
Lam. Encycl. i. 687, and Tubl. Encycl. ii. 825, t. 179, fig. 2. C. 
tenuiflora, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1276. C. sinuata, Poir. Suppl. 
Encycl. Meth. ii. 178; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 4; G. Don, Gen. 
Syst. iv. 112.— Cynanchum radice glandulosa, §c., J. Burm. Rar. Afr. 
Pl. Dec. 2, 36,t.15. Cynanchum linearibus foliis, &c., J. Burm. 
lc. 37, t. 16, fig. 1. Apocynum frutescens, §c., Pluk. Almagest. Bot. 
Mant. 17, t. 335, fig. 5. 
Sour Arrica: without locality, Forster! Masson! Mund! Harvey, 538! 
Forbes, 262! 
Coast Region: Van Rhynsdorp Div.; Gift Berg, 1500-2500 ft., Drége! 
Clanwilliam Div. ; Cederberg Range, near Ezels Bank, 2000-3000 ft., Drege 
(ex E. Meyer). Tulbagh Div.; near Roodezand Kloof, Lichtenstein (ex 
Schultes). Worcester Div.; without precise locality, Cooper, 1662! 1744! 
Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountains, 500-1000 ft., Drege! Cape Div. ; on the Flats 
and mountains around and south of Cape Town, Thunberg! Burchell, 140! 
811! Pappe! Ecklon, 525! (Alewander) Prior! Wilms, 3481; Wolley Dod, 
3283! Krauss (ex Krauss). Stellenbosch Div. ; Stellenbosch Flats, Lloyd in 
Herb. Sanderson, 970! Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Galpin, 
4326! Swellendam Div.; between Riet Kuil and Hemel-en-Aarde, Zeyher, 3407 | 
Tradouw Mountains, Drége (ex E. Meyer). Riversdale Div.; near the Zoete- 
melks River, Burchell, 6647! Uniondale Div.; Lange Kloof, Burchell, 5025! 
Bunbury, 166! Humansdorp Div.; near the Kromme River, Burchell, 4836 ! 
Uitenhage Div.; various localities, Burchell, 4641! Zeyher! Cooper, 1477! 
MacOwan, 1090! Drége (ex E. Meyer). Port Hlizabeth Div. ; about Baakens 
River, Burchell, 4359 ! MacOwan, 1090! Lloyd, 369! 
I do not find a double series of hairy patches within the corolla-tube of this 
species as implied by Bolus in the Journal of the Linnean Society, xxv. 163, ina 
note under M. namaquense, nor do they occur in any other species that I have 
examined. 
2. M. namaquense (Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxv. 163) ; 
stem twining, very slender, glabrous; leaves rather distant, }-1} in. 
long, including the very short petiole, }—3 lin. broad, linear, acute, 
