Neu- and Utile kiimni Pldiifx. 5'i 



raquires, however, to be checked), the ovules are fairly 

 numerous. The capsule is very much the same as in other species 

 of A nic(nnpsc)-os, the seeds are obli!]uely subclavate. The flowers 

 opei-i for a few hours (in April and May) and never open again. 

 They are self-fertile and produce abundant ripe seeds. In the 

 seedling the two cotyledons are subsemiglobose, and dark reddish- 

 brown in colour. The caudex takes its origin in the first place 

 from the hypocofyle. The two first leaves are opposite, but already 

 the next ones begin to form a f spiivd The stipules are found al- 

 ready in the very first leaves after the cotyledons. They arise 

 from the primordia of the leaves en their inner faces at a very 

 early stage. In a case which I particularly studied, the stipule of 

 the 5th leaf ^as just visible from abave, whan th3 prim3rdium of 

 the lOfch leaf had just appeai-eJ. Thsy a:-3 abju' ^ the thickness 

 of the leaves and have at firsi the s.ime breadth, but they very 

 quickly increase in breadth. 



A nacanipseros Ji/aiiientosa, Sims. — I have had this species from 

 Sheldon (Mrs. C. Hutton, no. •496) and from Barkly West 

 (W. G. Bennie no. G71). In tracing the development of the 

 so-called stipules in this species, I found that they arise from 

 the base of the primordia of the leaves on their inner sides as 

 small protuberances on which at an early stage trichomes are 

 developed. 



The number of stamens is usually about 15. The seeds are 

 obliquely club-shaped, as in all other species of Anacanijjseros. 

 The outer portion of the pericarp becomes detached in the form 

 of a conical cap which is split below into G parts, rounded at 

 the base. 



Anacampseros arachnuides, Sims. — I have seen live specimens 

 of this species from Namaqualand and the Fish River Randt. It 

 is, as will be seen from the Flora Capensis (II, p. 3(SJ:), a rather 

 variable plant. I find that the number of stamens is usually 27. 

 The ovary is rather more elongated than in the other species of 

 Anacampseros which I have mentioned, and this is also the case 

 with the stigmatic lobes. The placentation is central, the placenta 

 being distinctly connected with the ovary above. The capsule and 

 seeds are very much the same as in A./ilamentosa, but in the latter 

 the seeds are covered all over with shallow rounded protrubeiances, 

 while in .4. arachnoidrs these are decidly semi-globose. This may 

 have given rise to the statement in the Flora Capensis and else- 

 where that the seed are winged, which is not the case. 



