LXXX. ASCLEPIADE. 231 
shaped corpuscles. Stigma conico-pyramidal, 5-angled. Fol- 
licles smooth, tapering, divaricate.-—Thes. Cap. t. 66. 
Small, branching herbs, with turnip-like fleshy roots, erect or rarely 
climbing. Leaves opposite, glabrous or hairy. Flowers in cymes or fas- 
cicles, terminal or axillary, purple or green.—10-12 species in the Eastern 
district and at Natal. 
3. LEPTOPAITIA, Harv. 
Calyx short, 5-parted; segments ovate. Corolla rotate, 
5-parted, the segments lanceolate-oblong, slightly twisted 
to the left; throat with 5 subulate-filiform, very long and 
slender, much-exserted scales. Filaments connate, free at 
apex only; anthers free from stigma, sagittate, cohering by 
their triangular-acuminate, glabrous crests. Pollen-masses 
granular (each grain of 4 pollen-granules), affixed to 5 deeply 
2-fid corpuscles. Stigma depressed, with a conoidal umbo. 
A climber, with the habit and many of the characters of Pentopetia, 
Dene., recently found by Mr. Gerrard near Natal. 
Tripe 2. Secamonem. (Gen. 4.) 
4. SECAMONE, R. Br. 
Calyx very short, 5-fid. Corolla rotate or subeampanulate, 
deeply 5-parted, the lobes twisted to the right, glabrous or 
pubescent within. Corona 5-leaved, folioles laterally com- 
pressed, decurrent below along the gynostege, free above, fal- 
cate or ligulate, simple. Pollen-masses 20, erect, attached 
by fours to each of the 5 small, fleshy corpuscles. Stigma 
short or elongate, entire or absolutely 2-lobed.—D0C. Prod. 
vill. p. 501. 
Decumbent or voluble, rarely suberect shrubs. Leaves opposite, coria- 
ceous. Cymes or panicles axillary ; flowers often minute, not always.—4 
Cape species, Eastern and from Natal. 
TRIBE 3. EUASCLEPIADER. (Gen. 5-29.) 
5. ASTEPHANUS, R. Br. 
Calyx 5-parted ; sepals erect, acute. Corolla bell-shaped or 
ovoid-bellshaped, the throat and tube without scales. Corona 
0. Anthers membrane-tipped.  Pollinia small, ovoid or 
roundish, pendulous. Stigma elongate, mostly 2-fid, rarely 
simple or depressed. Follicles smooth.—DC. Prod. viii. p. 
507 ; Thes. Cap. t. 91. 
Voluble or decumbent undershrubs, with opposite glabrous leaves. Cymes 
or umbels interpetiolar ; flowers small, mostly pale.—6 or 7 species, dis- 
persed. 
