the Kew Herbarium, collected by Mr. J.M. Wood, A.L.S., 
Curator of the Durban Botanic Garden, ticketed as found 
on Durban Flats in 1887. A closely allied species, also 
referred to A. falcatus by Mr. Baker, but I think differing 
from that plant, though more resembling that plant, has 
been sent by several collectors from Natal. 
A. ternifolius has been in cultivation in the Succulent 
House of the Royal Gardens for a long period, and was, 
no doubt, procured from Wilson Saunders, F.R.S., about 
the time of its publication in the ‘ Refugium” (1871). 
It flowers in August, but has not fruited at Kew. 
Deser.— A slender, twining shrub, with a flexuous, 
smooth, woody stem, long, spreading or drooping, sul- 
cate branches and branchlets, which are angular towards 
the tips, with minutely roughened angles. Spines short, 
stout, usually slightly recurved, pungent. Oladodes often 
in threes towards the tips of the branches, but up to eight 
occur lower down on the plant, linear or linear-lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate, variable in length and breadth, three- 
fourths to one inch long, by one-sixth to one-eighth of an 
inch broad, flat, bright green. Racemes one to two inches 
long, solitary, binate, or ternate, many- and rather dense- 
fid., rhachis striate, rather rigid, six-angled, with the 
angles roughened by prominent cells; pedicels one-sixth 
to one-fourth of an inch long, jointed about the middle; 
bracts lanceolate, one-nerved. ‘Flowers about a fourth of 
an inch broad, faintly odorous; perianth-segments ob- 
ovate-oblong, obtuse, spreading, and recurved, white. 
Filaments about half as long as the perianth-segments ; 
anthers oblong, orange-yellow.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, portion of stem anl spines; 2, portion of rhachis of raceme; 
3, flower ay bract; 4, bract; 5, perianth-segment and stamen; 6, ovary :— 
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