58 CONSPECTUS TABULABUM. 
Leaves thick and leathery, or slightly carnose, elliptic-oblong or ovate, 
an inch long, 4 inch wide, acute or mucronulate, with reflexed and 
thickened margins. Flowers yellow or cream-coloured, 4—8 in an umbel. 
Sracts minute, subulate. Coro//a campanulate, 24 lines long ; its lobes 
oblong, obtuse, the tube furnished within at base with 5 longitudinal 
lines of reversed bristles, opposite the lobes. Membranes of the anther 
ovate. Stigma pyramidal, tapering to a sharp point. 
I have not seen any specimen of Decaisne’s plant, to which I ven- 
ture to refer the plant here figured. In the 5 hairy lines within the 
corolla (not alluded to by Decaisne) there is an approach to Mieroloma. 
It is possible I may be incorrect in the reference. Mrs. Hutton speaks 
of it as a beautiful plant. 
Fig. 1, Astephanus marginatus ; the natural size. Fig, 2, a flower; 3, the corolla 
laid open; 4, stamen surrounding the pyramidal stigma; 5, pollen masses and gland ; 
variously magnified. 
XCIL. MICROLOMA LINEARE, R. Br. (Asclepiadee.) 
M. lineare : volubile, glabriusculum, foliis anguste linearibus glabris 
in petiolum attenuatis marginibus reflexis, calyce dimidium corolls 
tubum vix sequante, corolle laciniis rotundatis brevibus hine basi fasci- 
culo pilorum auctis, folliculis attenuatis glabris. &. Br. Wern. Soc. i. 
p. 538; EF. Mey. Comm. p. 222; Dune. in DC. Prod. 8, p. 510; Cero- 
pegia tenuifolia, Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 231. 
Haz.—In dry ground, among shrubs, throughout the Colony, not rare. (Herb. 
T.C. D., &c.) 
Descr.— Root fleshy. Stems much branched, wiry, several feet long, 
glabrous or nearly so. Leaves in distant pairs, 14—2 inches long, 1 line 
wide, patent or reflexed, acute, glabrous, with revolute margins. Pe- 
duncles much shorter than the leaves, umbellately several flowered. 
Corolla waxy, bright crimson, 3 lines long, with 5 prominent rounded 
ridges and alternate deep furrows. 
I am indebted to Mrs. Holland, of Port Elizabeth, for the drawing 
here given. 
Fig. 1, Microloma lineare ; the natural size. Fig. 2, a flower; 3, the corolla laid 
open; 4, stamens and stigma; 5, pollen masses and gland; variously magnified. 
XCITI. BRACHYSTELMA FILIFORME, Harv. ( Asclepiadea.) 
B. (Dichaelia) filiforme; multicaule, caulibus erectis puberulis 
di-tri-chotomis nudis v. foliatis, foliis (parvis) subsessilibus linearibus 
obtusis v. mucronulatis carnosulis scabrellis, corolle tubo brevissimo, 
limbi laciniis basi ovatis longe lineari-attenuatis apice cohserentibus 
glabris, corona stamineé duplici serie 10-lobé, lobis exterioribus pro- 
funde bifidis, interioribus oblongis integris obtusis. 
= Pag ica Uitenhage, 0. Zeyher! Cradock District, Mrs. F. W. Barber. (Herb. 
