Tas. 6020. 
COTY LEDON MAMILLA RIS. 
Native of Namaqualand. 
Nat. Ord. CrRAssuLACER. 
Genus CoryLepon, Linn. ; (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. ii. p. 659.) 
CoryLEepon mamillaris ; glaberrima, caule crasso elongato parce ramoso 
ramis paucis pallide rufis apicibus decurvis laxe foliosis, foliis crassis 
laxis horizontalibus fusiformibus teretibus acutis glaucis basi in 
petiolum crassum brevem cylindraceum contractis levibus, spica termi- 
nali elongata pendula simplici rachi cylindracea fusco-rubra, fioribus 
2-Pollicaribus in fasciculos 8-floros sparsos dispositis horizontaliter 
divaricatis, bracteolis minutis, | calyce parvo viridi hemispherico 
5-dentato, corolla rubro-purpurea tubo elongato 5-gono angulis cos- 
tatis, limbo parvo patenti-recurvo breviter 5-lobo, lobis saturate 
rubris undulatis caudato-acuminatis, squamulis minutis orbiculatis 
emarginatis, ovariis angustis, 
CorrLepon mamillaris, Linn. f. Suppl., p. 242; Thunb. Flor. Cap., p. 397 ; 
DC. Prodr., vol. iii. p, 898; Harv. and Sond. Flor, Cap., vol. iii. p. 377. 
C. filicaulis, Eckl. and Zeyh, jid. Harv., lc. 
A native of the arid western districts of the Cape region, 
which contains so many of the most peculiar forms of South 
African vegetation, and whence the dry stoves of our grand- 
fathers were supplied with the majority of those curious, in- 
teresting, and often singularly beautiful succulents that are 
now all but banished from cultivation. Of the genus Cotyle- 
don there are three-and-twenty South African species alone 
described in Harvey’s and Sonder’s Flora, of which twelve 
were in 1811 cultivated at Kew, where there are now 
eighteen. 
Descr. Quite glabrous. Stem one to two feet high 
(branched, creeping and rooting, according to Thunberg), 
ascending in our Specimen, and sparingly branched, pale red- 
brown, as thick as the middle finger, fleshy, covered with the 
_ FEBRUARY Ist, 1873, 
