232 LXXX. ASCLEPIADEA. 
6. HASMAX, E. Mey. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla urceolate, with a very short limb, 
the lobes hood-shaped, inflexed, valvate ; tube angular within, 
round the gynostege reversely hairy. Corona 0. Anthers 
membranous-tipped. Pollinia taper-pointed, pendulous. Stig- 
ma prominent, obtuse, entire. Follicles smooth, often solitary. 
—DC. Prod. viii. p. 509. 
Rigid, spinous, divaricately-branched shrubs, with minute, deciduous, 
cordate leaves, and very small, umbelled flowers.—2 species, Northern and 
North-Eastern. 
7. MICROLOMA, R. Br. 
Calyx 5-parted ; sepals acute, sometimes longer than corolla. 
Corolla urceolate, 5-fid, the lobes short, twisted to the left; 
throat nude; tube swollen, 5-angled, with 5 scales or promi- 
nences, 1 under each sinus, alternating with as many tufts of 
reflexed hairs. Corona 0. Anthers membranous-tipped. 
Pollinia compressed, pendulous. Stigma apiculate. Follicles 
smooth.— DC. Prod. vii. p. 510; Lhes. Cap. t. 92. 
Voluble or erect, sometimes spiny undershrubs, with opposite, narrow 
leaves, and interpetiolar umbels of small, waxy, red flowers. 
8. PARAPODIUM, E. Mey. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 5-parted, somewhat bell-shaped, 
twisted to the left. Corona 5-leaved; folioles rounded, alter- 
nate with the corolla-lobes, on each side decurrent in a very 
short tube. Anthersmembrane-tipped. Pollinia compressed, 
taper-pointed, pendulous. Stigma pyramidal, 5-furrowed, ob- 
tuse.—DC. Prod. vii. p. 511. 
An erect herb (unknown to me), with subopposite leaves, and alternate, 
never axillary, peduncled umbels, lateral between each pair of petioles.— 
Found on the Witberg. 
9. CORDYLOGYNE, E. Mey. 
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Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 5-parted, bell-shaped ; segments 
concave below, with recurved tips. Corona 5-parted ; folioles 
connate at base, erect, fleshy, with broad, linear claw and ob- 
long limb truncate at base, very obtuse at apex, and having, 
on the inner face, a small, transverse, projecting lamella. 
Anthers membrane-tipped. Stigma long, exserted, cylin- 
drical-capitate. Follicles solitary, smooth, slender. — DC. 
Prod. vin. p. 518. 
A slender, erect herb, glabrous except the peduncles and calyx. Stems 
virgate ; leaves very narrow, with revolute margins; peduncles many- 
flowered, the flowers crowded, small, yellow-green.—Native of the Eastern 
frontier and Caffraria. 
