ON THE ASCLEPIADEiE. 



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nus is evidently very near akin to Microloma, 

 and differs chiefly in the want of squamae 

 within the tube. They might, therefore, be 

 united; but this would lead to the junction 

 also of Metastelma, a native of the West In- 

 dia Islands, which I am unwilling to join 

 with these South African plants. 



n. 



Masses pollinis 20, laeves, quaternatim (duabus 

 antheris pertinentes), affix 33 apice corpuscu- 

 lorum exsulcorum stigmatis. 

 Filamenta connata, extus appendiculata. 



SECAMONE. [Periplocce sp. Linn, 



Char. Corolla rotata. 

 Corona staminea 5phylla. 



Masses pollinis erects* quaternatim affix 33 apice 



corpusculi subsimilis, exsulci stigmatis. 

 Stigma apice coarctato. 



Foliculi 



Habitus. Frutices erecti v. volubiles, crlabrL 

 Folia opposita. Cymk die ho torn a?, interpe- 

 tiolares. Flore s minuti. 

 P atria. Africa, India Orientals, et Nova Hoi- 

 landia tropica. 



Obs. From [the extreme minuteness of the parts, 

 no genus has been more difficult to determine 

 than this : it is, however, perfectly natural 

 and distinct, and is evidently the connecting 



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