552 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). | Microloma. 
minutely auriculate-hastate at the base, with strongly revolute 
margins, coriaceous, glabrous; cymes subaxillary, 3-6-flowered, 
very minutely puberulous; peduncle 2-3 lin, long; bracts 1 lin. 
long, subulate ; pedicels 3-4 lin. long; sepals spreading or erect, 
2 lin. long, rather more than 4 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, acute, 
very minutely puberulous ; corolla urceoiate, flame-coloured, glabrous 
outside; tube 3 lin. long, 5-angled, inside with 5 tufts of deflexed 
hairs at about the middle; lobes 11 lin. long, 12 lin. broad, sub- 
orbieular-reniform, very obtuse, much overlapping and forming a 
spiral rosette, nearly or quite closing the mouth of the tube, minutely 
pubescent on the basal part inside ; corona-tubercles erect, obtuse, 
placed rather below the level of the middle of the hairy patches ; 
staminal column 2 lin. long, 5-spurred at the middle; filament 
part stout, cylindric. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 418. 
Western Reeion: Little Namaqualand; near Ookiep?, Morris in Herb. 
Bolus, 5703! Spektakel Mountain, 3600 ft., Bolus in MacOwan §¥ Bolus, Herb. 
Norm. Austr.-Afr., 639 ! 
3. M. gibbosum (N. E. Br.); stem twining, branched, }—} lin. 
thick, very minutely puberulous on the youngest parts, soon becom- 
ing glabrous, as do the spreading subcoriaceous leaves; petiole 
1-11 lin. long; blade 5-10 lin. long, 1-31 lin. broad at the base, 
linear-sagittate or narrowly oblong-sagittate, acute, with rounded 
auricles at the subtruncate base ; cymes subaxillary, 4—6-flowered ; 
peduncles 1-2 lin. long, thinly and very minutely puberulous, as are 
also the 14-2 lin. long, linear-lanceolate bracts and 2-4 lin. long 
pedicels ; sepals 31-43 lin. long, as long as or longer than the 
corolla, 1 lin. broad at the base, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 
glabrous, reddish; corolla tubular, 5-angled, glabrous outside ; 
tube 1 in. long, with 5 elongated hairy patches at the base within ; 
lobes 2-8 lin. long, connivent-ereet, laterally compressed, dorsally 
very abruptly and broadly gibbous on the basal part from the angles 
of the tube being suddenly and semicircularly rounded into the 
small apiculus-like apex of the lobe, which does not exceed the 
gibbosity by more than + lin., puberulous and minutely ciliate on 
the inner face; corona-tubercles small, ovate, acute, placed at the ° 
level of the middle of the hairy patches; staminal column 2 lin. 
long, shortly spurred at the middle. 
ote ona Recron: Calvinia Div.; Nieuwondtville, Leipoldt in Herb. Bolus, 
This differs from all its nearest allies by the very abrupt manner in which the 
angles of the corolla-tube are rounded into the minute tips of the lobes; in all 
the others they more or less taper into the tips, which exceed the gibbosity by 
Psat or more. The corolla may have been yellow or red with green tips to the 
4. M. calycinum (E. Meyer, Comm. 223); a woody, much- 
branched twiner ; branches }—3 lin. thick, glabrous ; leaves reflexed, — 
_ subcoriaceous or fleshy? glabrous; petiole 1-2 lin. long; blade 
