~ Microloma.| ASCLEPIADE® (Brown). 555 
7. M. incanum (Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 511); stem shrubby, 
branching ; branches ereet or ascending-spreading, occasionally twin- 
ing, $14 lin. thick, whitish from a very dense tomentum of minute 
hairs; leaves spreading, coriaceous, puberulous; petiole 1—2 lin. 
long; blade 6-10 lin. long, }—14 lin. broad, linear, slightly hastate- 
auriculate at the base, obtuse or acute, revolute at the margins; | 
cymes subaxillary, subsessile, 3—6-flowered ; pedicels about 14 lin. 
long, whitish-tomentose; sepals 2-21 lin. long, scarcely } lin. broad, 
linear-lanceolate, acute, whitish-tomentose, erect, applied to the 
corolla, sometimes recurved in the upper part; corolla tubular, 
5-angled, minutely puberulous outside ; tube 3 lin. long, with 5 
tufts of deflexed fulvous hairs near, the base inside ; lobes spirally 
connivent-erect, 11—1% lin. long, + lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, acute, 
channelled down the face, minutely ciliate on one margin, puberu- 
lous inside, green, margined with red; corona-tubercles none ; 
staminal column 12 lin. long, 5-spurred just below the middle ; 
follicle solitary (always ?), 2-22 in. long, about 24 lin. thick, narrowly 
fusiform, tapering to a long acute point and to an acute base, 
glabrous; seeds 23—3 lin. long, 12 lin. broad, ovate, flattish or 
plano-convex, minutely tubereulate on both sides. Schlechter in 
Journ. Bot. 1896, 418. M. sajittatum, R. Br., var. B, EF. Meyer, 
Comm. 222; M. sugittatum, R. Br., var. incanum, E. Meyer ex 
Decne in DO. Prodr. viii. 511, under M. incanum ,; Schlechter in 
Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 2. 
CrentrRAL Reeion: Calvinia Div.; between Lospers Plaats and Springbok 
Kuil River, 2000-3000 ft., Zeyher, 1179! 
WestERN ReE@ion: Little Namaqualand; between Koussie (Buffels) River 
and Silver Fontein, near Ookiep, 2000-3000 ft., Drége, 3051! hills near I’us 
[ Ous Mountain ?), Schlechter, 11424! Great Namaqualand; Gubub, Schinz, 
! 
8. M. longituba (Schlechter in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 445); an 
erect much-branched shrub ; branchlets recurved-divaricate, minutely 
velvety ; leaves distant, subsessile, 2-33 lin. long, scarcely 1 lin. 
broad, lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic, acute, minutely velvety on 
both sides; flowers in few-flowered subaxillary fascicles ; pedicels 
short, velvety ; sepals half as long as the corolla-tube, linear-lanceo- 
late, velvety ; corolla tubular ; tube 3 lin. long, 2 lin. in diam., 
very thinly puberulous outside, furnished with a ring of deflexed 
hairs (?5 patches) at the base inside ; lobes} lin. long, subtriangular, 
subacute, erect, incurved at the apex, thinly velvety-puberulous ; 
apex of the style produced into a beak. 
Western Reaion: Great Namaqualand; among rocks near Keetmanshoop, 
Fleck, 244a (ex Schlechter). 
_I have not seen this plant, which, from the description, appears to be very 
similar to M. ineanum, Decne, but differing in its foliage. 
9. M. Burchellii (N. E. Br.); a dwarf, much-branched woody 
shrub, }-1 ft, high ; branches decumbent (Burchell), $—-{ lin. thick, 
rigid, subspinescent, minutely puberulous in the young state, green ; 
