Eustegia. | ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). 761 
This may be only a variety of HZ. minuta, but it conspicuously differs by the 
middle series of corona-lobes being shorter than the style and very much less 
deeply divided. The figure of Z. hastata in Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 
ii. 234, fig. 68 N-P, may possibly be intended for this plant ; but the lateral 
segments of the middle series of corona-lobes are not represented as being 
auriculate at the base, 
2. EB. minuta (R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 52) ; branches decum- 
bent 2-3 in. long, unifariously puberulous ; leaves 2-5 lin. long, 
those at the base sometimes ovate or lanceolate, the others usually 
linear-hastate with a short acute spreading tooth on each side at 
the base, or without them and linear, acute, cuneately narrowed 
into a very short petiole, glabrous, often irregularly ciliate with a 
few hairs; umbels pedunculate, 3-6-flowered ; peduncles 2-8 lin. 
long ; bracts }—} lin. long, lanceolate-subulate, acute ; pedicels 2-3 
lin. long, puberulous on one side; sepals about } lin. long, $ lin. 
broad, ovate, obtusely pointed or subacute, glabrous ; corolla-lobes 
about 14 lin. long and } lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, apparently 
slightly twisted, glabrous on both sides ; corona-lobes of the outer 
and middle series }-1 lin. long, rising to about the level of the top 
of the style ; outer series entire, 4 lin. broad, linear, obtuse, with a 
gibbosity or thickening on the inner face at the top ; middle series 
divided nearly to the base into 3 linear segments about 1 lin. broad, 
with the middle one obtuse, having a gibbosity on the inner face at 
the middle, and the lateral acute or obtuse, with a small but distinct 
inflexed auricle or tooth on the outer margin near the base ; inner 
series about 4 lin. long, } lin. broad, oblong-linear, very obtuse or 
rounded at the apex, scarcely exceeding the anther-appendages ; 
style exserted } lin. beyond the anther-appendages, about 4 lin, 
thick, oblong, obtuse, apparently pentagonal. E. hastata, R. Br. 
in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 52; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 119; G. Don, Gen. 
Syst. iv. 158; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 907 ; Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 545, 
excl. reference to Sprengel. Apocynum minutum, Linn. f. Suppl. 169; 
Murray, Syst. Veg. ed. 14, 258; Lam. Encyel. i. 215. A. hastatum, 
Thunb. Prodr. 47 ; in Nov. Act. Acad. Petrop. xiv. (1805), 514, t. 9, 
fig. b; Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 164, and ed. Schultes 238; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 
1259; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 274. 
Sours AFrica: without locality, Montin in Herb. Linneus! 
Coast Reaion : Cape Div. ; below Lion Mountain, Thunberg ! 
3. E. filiformis (Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 120) ; branches usually 
decumbent, 2-6 in. long, puberulous on one side ; leaves }—1} in. 
long, filiform, linear-filiform, filiform-hastate or rarely linear-hastate, 
glabrous or with a thin minute pubescence or a few small scattered 
hairs ; umbels 4-8-flowered ; peduncles }-1} in. long, puberulous on 
one side; pedicels 14-2 lin. long, puberulous ; sepals }—1 lin. long, 
about 4 lin. broad, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, 
glabrous ; corolla-lobes spreading, 1}-1} lin. long, 2-3 lin. broad, 
oblong, obtuse, with more or less revolute margins, glabrous on 
