Microloma. | ASCLEPIADES (Brown). 553 
21-7 lin. long, +~14 lin. broad, linear, acute, cuneate or rounded 
into the petiole at the base; cymes subaxillary, 8—9-flowered ; 
peduncle 3—3 lin. long, glabrous; bracts 13 lin. long, subulate; 
pedicels 13—4 lin. long, glabrous; sepals as long as the corolla or 
longer, 5 lin. long, # lin. broad, linear, acute, glabrous, erect or more 
or less spreading, red; corolla tubular, 5-angled, glabrous outside ; 
tube 23-3 lin. long, rosy, furnished inside with 5 tufts of deflexed 
hairs near the base; lobes spirally connivent-erect, 13 lin. long, 
} lin. broad, narrowly lanceolate, laterally compressed with a slight 
gibbosity at their very base which gradually tapers to their acute 
tips, very minutely velvety inside, green, margined with red; 
corona-tubercles minute, subhemispherical, placed at the level of 
the top of the hairy patches; staminal column 13-2 lin. long, 
shortly spurred a little below the middle. Harv. Gen. S. Afr. 
Pl. ed. 1, 228; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 909 ; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 
511; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 2, and Journ. Bot. 
1896, 418. 
Var. 8, flavescens (E. Meyer, Comm. 223) ; sepals shorter than the corolla, 
23-3 lin. long, yellowish, 
WesTERN ReGion: Little Namaqualand; Kaus (Steinkof) Mountains, near 
Goedemans Kraal, 2500-8000 ft., Drege, 3052b! stony places near Klip Fontein, 
2500 ft., Bolus in MacOwan § Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 638! by the 
Buffel River, Schlechter, 11261! Great Namaqualand; near Aus, Schinz, 30! 
Var. 8B: Little Namaqualand ; Kamies Berg near Geelbeks Kraal, 3000-4000 ft., 
Drege, 3052 ! 
5. M. glabratum (E. Meyer, Comm. 222); stem branching, 
twining, woody; branches 1-1 lin. thick, at first very minutely 
puberulous, becoming glabrous; leaves subcoriaceous, very minutely 
puberulous ; petiole 3-1 lin. long; blade 6-11 lin. long, 14-22 lin. 
broad, linear-hastate, acute; cymes subaxillary, 3—5-flowered ; 
peduncle 3-22 lin. long, puberulous ; bracts 1-12 lin. long, subulate ; 
pedicels 13-3 lin. long; sepals 3-81 lin. long, $ lin. broad, narrowly 
lanceolate, acuminate, erect, thinly puberulous; corolla tubular, 
slightly enlarged below, 5-angled, glabrous outside, red; tube 32 lin. 
long, inside with 5 tufts of yellowish, deflexed hairs below the 
middle ; lobes spirally connivent-erect, 1 lin. long, 4 lin. broad at 
the base, deltoid-lanceolate, laterally compressed, with gibbosities at 
the base of their lobes which gradually taper to their acute tips, 
pubescent inside, green; corona-tubercles small, obtuse, placed at 
the level of the middle of the tufts of hairs; staminal column 2 lin. 
long, 5-spurred at the middle; filament part subcylindric. Harv. 
Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. 1, 228; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 909; Decne in DC. 
Prodr. viii. 511; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 2, and 
Journ. Bot. 1896, 418. 
CENTRAL REGION: Prince Albert Div.; near Klaarstroom on the Great 
Zwart Bergen, 2000-3000 ft., Drége! Kendo (probably Kandos Mountain), 
2500-3500 ft., Drége (ex E. Meyer). 
_ Western Recron: Little Namaqualand; in a | places near Ookiep, Bolus 
in MacOwan § Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 637 
