H« 



T r ^ J I , 1 ' ? , 



/r. 



3 24 



MR. ??. E. lillOWN : NEW AND OLD 



crowded and almost touching one another. Flower sessile* Calyx 



not 



represented. Corolla 25 nnn. in diameter ; petals in about 2 series, widely 

 spreading, the outer about 10 nnn, long and 1 mm. broad^ the inner a little 

 shortrr, linearj acute, yellow, with red tips. Stamens numerous, collected 

 into a cone about G mm- broad at the base and 3 nnn. broad at the 



apex ; fdanients white, anthers ilull purplish. — J/, aloides^ Haw\ Suppl. p. 88 



(1819); & Kev. p. 87: Burch. Trav. vol. ii. p. 3:i2r D(l. Prodr. vol. iii. 

 p. 4:iy, not of Salm-Dyck, Sonder^ or Berger. 



13 EC nU AN ALAND. 



M 



o 



at Jabiru Fontein, near Takun, Aug. HI and Sept. 5, lii\2.BurcMl 2211)-8. 



I have given the above three descriptions of* tins species in order to call 



attention to itj for at present it is quite an unknown phmt, as that figured 



by Salm-Dyck and described in modern books as being M, aloides is not that 



M. cihdelam, N. E. Br., p. G4) 



© 



M 



hut none are correctly named. The only species that I have seen whicli 



r 



bears any resemblance to the true M. aloides is M. ruhroUueatum^ N. E. Br., 

 which is XQvy similar in its hal)its and foliage. But the latter species comes 

 from the w^idely distant locality of' the Graaff Beinefc region and has 

 different flowers, the red midribs of its petals being very distinctive. 



Burchell states in his ^ Tj*avels ' that the I'oots are '^eaicn by the luitiAcs as 

 a substitute for lietter food/' Of no. 211)7 lie collected onlv seeils, but of 

 nos. 2249-8 lie collected both seeds and a dried specinuMi, which latter wa> in 

 his lierbarium wheii it caine to K(Mv, but according to lh<^ list nuide, was not 

 mounted for Kew, but treated as a daf)licate, so that the type is probably in 

 the Asa Gray Herbarium at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., U*S*A, 



M. ARBORIFORWE, BuTch. (§ Spinosa). A small shrub 1-2 feet high, 

 branched, and mostly wMth a simple trunk. Cymes 8-times forked. FloM'crs 

 nn'nute, of a testaceous colour. 



The above is a translation of tlie oriixinal description. Tiie followiufj* I 

 liave made from tlie dried ty[»e s[)ecimeu : 



A shrublet, densely and alternately much briinched so as to form a mass 

 of snuill dead rigid and somewhat spiny cymes^ Main branches wootly, 

 4-5 mm. thick, with internodes 5-15 mnu long; bark smooth^ dark brown. 



Ifoung flowering branches alternate, at first appearing to be 1-5 cm. lono- 

 below the first forking of the cyme, but sometimes by the development of 

 fresh cyme-branches from its nodes, the ultimate length below an old cyme 

 is often only 5-15 mm.j about 1^-2 mm, thick, w^th intcu'nodes 5-15 long, 

 papillose, wdiitish. Leaves opjtoslte, conliguous but (on <lried spcuinuMis) 

 scarcely connate at the base^ spreading^ 5-15 mm. long, 1-1^ mm. thick. 



doubtless lai'o-or when 



alive, wdien swollen in boili 



ing w^atei 



appearing 



semiterete, or slightly convex or slightly channelled above and convex beneath, 



