230 LXXX. ASCLEPIADER. 
Corolla subrotate, small. Corona-folioles 
deeply 2-fid, with a very long, taper- 
pointed process on the face. Flowers 
dn) unabels.) se . . 42, LOPHOSTEPHUS. 
Corolla bell-shaped, with a short limb, 
Corona-folioles short, bluntly 3-cuspi- 
date. Flowersin umbels . . . . 43. SISYRANTHUS. 
Corona gamophyllous, saucer-shaped, with 
5 short, truncate lobes and rounded in- 
terspaces . . . . 44, MicrasTER. 
Stems leafless, thick and fleshy, Ae or ‘many- 
angled. 
Corolla with a tooth-like lobe between each 
of its larger lobes. Corona double . . 45. Hurrnta. 
Corolla 5-lobed, without any tooth-like in- 
termediate lobes. 
Corona of 5 dorsally-toothed folioles. . 46. PIaRANTHUS. 
Corona double. 
Stems 4-angled, with toothed ridges. 
Corolla fleshy. . . . . 47, Svrapenia. 
Stem many-angled, thorny. Corolla 
membranous, large and flat . . . 48. Hoopta. 
Trips 1. Pertprocem. (Gen. 1-3.) 
1. ECTADIUM, E. Mey. 
Calyx 5-parted; sepals deciduous. Corolla salver-shaped, 
with a subecampanulate short tube ; lobes 5, spreading, twisted 
to the left; throat with 5 lanceolate, compressed, subexserted 
scales, alternating with the lobes. Stamens inserted in the 
base of the corolla-tube ; filaments free, very short ; anthers 
dorsally hairy, tapering into very long plumose crests. Pollen- 
masses 20, composed of spherical grains, each of 4 pollen- 
granules, affixed to the 5 oblong-truncate corpuscles. Stigma 
5-angled, apiculate. Follicles smooth, slender, divaricate.— 
DC. Prod. vii. p. 500. 
E. virgatum, EK. Mey., is an erect, rod-like undershrub of Namaqualand, 
with opposite, linear, acute leaves, and axillary, cymose, peduncled flowers. 
2. RAPHIONACME, Harv. 
Calyx short, 5-parted; sepals deciduous. Corolla subro- | 
tate ; limb 5-parted, the segments spreading, imbricate in 
bud; throat with 5 taper-pointed, simple or deeply 3-lobed 
scales, alternating with the segments. Stamens in the throat, 
subexserted ; filaments free, short; anthers attached at base 
to the margin of the stigma, sagittate, with a broad connective, 
mucronate, glabrous. Pollen-masses 5, granular (each grain 
of 4 pollen-granules), affixed to the dilated apices of 5 spoon- 
