Tab. 7931. 

 COTYLEDON undulata. 



Native of South Africa. 



Nat. Ord. Cra.ssulace«. 

 Genns Cotyledon 7 , Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 659.) 



Cotyledon (§ Paniculate) undulata ; species adhuc iraperfecte cognita, 

 C. orbiculatse, Linn. (Bot. Mag. t. 321) affinis, a qua differt foliis obovato- 

 spathnlatis apice rotuudatis vel fere truncatis grosse undulato-crenatis 

 cuspidatisque ; frutex erectus, caruosus, albo-farinosus, caule snbsimplici 

 cum inflorescentia circiter 3-pedali, foliis oppositis, internodiis brevibns vel 

 brevissimis, crassis carnosis 3§-5 poll, longis maximis supra medium 2J 

 poll, latis margine in parte superiore interdum rubrescente, pedunculis 12- 

 18 poll, longis nudis vel foliis paucis parvis ovatis subacutis infra medium 

 instmctis, floribus subdicbotomo-cymosis longe pedicellatis pendulis 

 circiter 1} poll, longis luteo-rabris, calycis segmenfcis parvis deltoideis 

 eubacutip, corollas tubo cylindrico lobis duplo longioribus, lobis acntis 

 recurvis, staminibus vix exsertis, carpellis 5 glabris, stylis stamina vix 

 aequantibus. 



C. undulata, Haw. Suppl. PI. Succ. (1819), p. 20 (" Plantae Kewenses solum 

 juveniles"); Revis PI. Succ. (1821) p. 20 (" Siniulat C. orbicularem, at 

 longe humilior, foliis incipientibus apice magis undulatis cuspidatisque "). 

 BO. Prod. vol. iii. p. 396 (sine riorum descriptione). Harv. & Sond. Fl. 

 Cap. vol. ii. 377 ("probably a form of C. orbiculata "). Schonland & 

 E. G. Baker in Journ. Bot. 1902, pp. 13 et 17, t. 431. 



Cotyledon foliis latis undulatis, &c, Burin. Bar. Air. PI. Dec. p. 44 t. 19, 

 *fig. 2? 



As the above references and quotations show, Cotyledon 

 undulata was first partially described by Haworth in 1819, 

 from young plants at Kew ; but he adds nothing of im- 

 portance to that description in 1821, although a flowering 

 specimen in his herbarium, now at Oxford, is labelled : 

 " Kew, June, 1820." A drawing of his specimen, by 

 Miss M. Smith, with a copy of all the writing on the 

 sheet on which it is mounted, is in the Kew Herbarium ; 

 and in the collection of old Kew drawings there is a fine, 

 bold, coloured figure of this species dated : " Kew, May 

 23rd, 1825." The drawing is endorsed: "Raised from 

 seeds in 1817, received from Mr. Bowie from the Cape of 

 Good Hope." 



Apparently Haworth never described the flowers of 

 G. undulata, but there is no doubt that his specimen and 

 the old Kew drawing represent the same species. And there 

 is little doubt that our plant is the same species, though the 

 flowers are purple in the original drawing, the segments of 

 Decembek 1st, 1903. 



