Microloma
(from mikros, small, and loma, a fringe; in reference to the fascicles of hairs in the tube of the corolla). ORD. Asclepiadeae. A genus comprising about five species of greenhouse evergreen twining sub-shrubs, natives of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers red, in interpetiolar umbels; corolla urceolate, with a ventricose angular tube, a naked throat, and a short limb. Leaves opposite, often narrow. For culture, see Ceropegia. M. lineare (linear). fl. blood-coloured; limb of corolla very blunt. July. l. linear, glabrous, with reflexed margins. 1823.
M. sagittatum (sagittate). fl. scarlet; limb of corolla very blunt. July. l. sagittate, sub-tomentose, linear-hastate, shortly petiolate; margins reflexed. 1775.