554 ASCLEPIADE® (Brown). [ Microloma. 
6. M. sagittatum (R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 53); stem 
twining, 2—% lin. thick, pubescent; leaves spreading, thinly pubes- 
cent to almost tomentose; petiole 12 lin. long; blade 4-1; in. 
long, 3-8 lin. broad, linear or linear-oblong, shortly sagittate or 
hastate at the base, obtuse, more or less revolute at the margins ; 
cymes subaxillary, 3-9-flowered ; peduncle 2-4 lin. long, pubescent ; 
bracts 1 lin. long, linear-subulate, pubescent ; pedicels 11-2 lin. long, 
pubescent ; sepals 13-3 lin. long, 2—{ lin. broad, lanceolate or 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, erect, adpressed to the corolla, pubescent ; 
corolla tubular, slightly inflated below, 5-angled, pink, glabrous or 
puberulous along the angles only outside; tube 33-33 lin. long, 
furnished inside below the middle with 5 tufts of deflexed hairs ; 
lobes spirally connivent-erect, 1 lin. long, about 7 lin, broad at the 
base, deltoid-lanceolate, laterally compressed, with a gibbosity at 
their base which gradually tapers to their acute tips, pubescent 
inside, green ; corona-tubercles small, obtuse, placed at the level of 
the middle of the hairy patches; staminal column about 2 lin. long, 
shortly 5-spurred at the middle; filament part stout, cylindric ; 
follicles 2-28 in. long, 4-5 lin. thick, lanceolate, tapering into a long 
beak, glabrous; seeds 21-3 lin. long, ovate, flattish, minutely 
tuberculate, black. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 76; Schultes, Syst. 
Veg. vi. 120; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i, 855; Harv. Gen. S. Afr. Pl. 
ed. 1, 228; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 909; E. Meyer, Comm. 222; G. 
Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 158; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 827; DC. Prodr. 
viii, 510; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 2, and in 
Journ. Bot. 1896, 417. M.hastatum and Periploca hastata, Decne in 
DG. Prodr. viii. 4991. Ceropegia sagittata, Linn. Mant. ii. 215; 
Syst. Veg. ed. 14, 255; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1276; Thunb. Prodr. i. 37 ; 
Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 148, and ed. Schultes, 231; and in Nov. Act. 
Acad. Petrop. xiv. 515; Lam. Encycl. i, 686, and Tabl. Encyel. 
ii, 825, #. 179, f. 1; Jucg. Hort. Schoenbr. i. 17, ¢. 38; Aut. 
Hort. Kew. ed. 1,i. 300; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 277. Eustegia hastata, 
Sieber, ex Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 511, not of R. Br. 
Sourn AFKIca: without locality, Sparrmann in Herb. Linneus ! Sieber, 142! 
Pappe! 
Coast Region: Clanwilliam Div. ; near Sand Berg in Lange Valley, 500 ft., 
Drége, 3054! near Clanwilliam, Mader, 199! by the Olifants River, Ecklon & 
Zeyher! Piquetberg Div.; Pieterstontein, 500 ft., Drége, 3054b! Pickeniers 
Kloof, Pentier, 827, and near Undersberg Valley, Penther, 822 (ex Schlechter). 
Malmesbury Div. ; Groene Kloof, below 200 ft., Drége / Worcester Div.; Hex 
River, Burke! Cape Div.; various localities on the Flats and sand dunes, 
Thunberg! Prior (Alewander)! Zeyher, 1180! Burchell, 968! Krauss (ex 
Krauss), Bolus, 2574! Pappe! MacOwan & Bolus, Herb, Norm. Austr.- Ajt-, 
366! Wilms, 3480! Caledon Div.; without precise locality, Thom, 942! Rivers- 
dale Div. ; between Great Vals River and Gauritz River, Burchell, 6513! Tyger 
Fontein, 800 ft., Ga/pin, 4325 ! 
Western Reaion: Little Namaqualand; Kamies Bergen, near Geelbeks 
Kraal, 2500-3000 ft., Drege («x E. Meyer). Kaus Mountains, between Karakuis 
and Goedemans Kraul (near Steinkof), 2000-3000 ft., Drége (ex E. Meyer). 
I have seen a specimen of this plant distributed by Drage as M. calycinum. 
