316 DECADES PLANTAEUM NOVARUM AUSTRO-AFRICANARUM. 



gine puberulis, intus pilosis, 0*1 cm. longis ; floribus ad apices 

 ramulorum capitellatis, capitulis paucifloris sabglobosis, interdum 

 unifloris ; bracteis foliis similibus pallidioribus ; floribus sessilibus 

 albidis, c. 0-2 cm. diametientibiis ; calyce villoso O'l cm. longo, 

 segmentis oblongis obtusis tubo requilongis, petalis duplo brevi- 

 oribiis ; petalis oblongis obtusis glabris basin versus medio paullo 

 incrassatis, 0-1 cm. longis; staminibus filiformibus glabris, petala 

 baud ?equantibus ; stylis 3, filiformibus glabris, 0*5 mm. longis ; 

 ovario dense sericeo-villoso triloculato, loculis uniovulatis. 



In regione austro-orientali : Juxta rivulos prope Murcbison, 

 Natalia?, 12 Maio 1884 ; J. M. Wood, No. 3029. Juxta rivulos pone 

 flumen Enkweni in terra Pondoland. Junio 1888 ; I))'. F. Bachmann, 

 Nos. 1668, 1669, 1670, 1671, 1680. 



As yet no species of Berardia bas been found with three styles 

 and a three-celled ovary. Although these characters are very re- 

 markable in our species, I do not, however, feel justified in making 

 a new genus, as in everything else our plant is a true Berardia. 

 However, I propose to make it the type of a new section {Berardiella). 



76. Mesembryanthemum nubigenum, sp. n. Suffrutex 

 humilis, decumbens e basi ramosus ; ramulis brevibus adscendenti- 

 bus, teretiusculis, papulosis, foliatis ; foliis patentibus vel erecto- 

 patentibus, carnosis, oblongis vel oblongo-ellipticis acutis, basin 

 versis angustatis, interdum linearibus, fide collectoris papulosis ; 

 floribus aurantiacis ad apices ramulorum solitariis, breviter pedi- 

 cellatis ; pedicello calyceque papuloso ; calycis tubo late obconico, 

 segmentis oblongis obtusis, petalis brevioribus, margine plus minus 

 conspicue membranaceo-marginatis, interioribus exterioribus paulo 

 brevioribus nunc suborbicularibus ; petalis 1-seriatis linearibus 

 obtusis 1-nerviis, 0-7 cm. longis, c. 0-2 cm. latis, calycis segmenta 

 duplo fere excedentibus ; staminibus subeffusis, calycis segmenta 

 baud excedentibus, filamentis filiformibus glabris, antheris lineari- 

 oblongis utrinque subexcisis, 0*2 cm. longis ; stylis erectis, 5, 

 subulatis acutis, 0*3 cm. longis, antherarum apices attingentibus. 



In regione austro-occidentali : In rupium fissuris in cacumine 

 mentis "Mont aux Sources" in Terra Orange Free State, alt. c. 

 9500 ped., Jan. 1896 ; J. Thode. 



For the present I consider the plant best put under next to the 

 section Crassidina ; it does not agree with any species of that 

 section, but should form the type of a new one, Nubigena, charac- 

 terized by rather flattish leaves, solitary yellow flowers, and a 

 creeping habit. 



77. Euryops montanus, sp. n. Fruticulus humihs, com- 

 pactus, valde ramosus ^-l-pedalis ; ramulis divaricatis, teretibus 

 glabris, dense foliatis, demum basibus foliorum persistentibus 

 obtectis ; foliis, anguste linearibus acutis, textura crassiusculis, 

 dorso carinatis, glabris, infra medium angustatis, basi sursum 

 dilatatis, 0-5-0*8 cm. longis, medio latitudine 0-1 cm. vix exce- 

 dentibus ; florum capitulis, ad apices ramulorum sessilibus, termi- 

 nalibus, solitariis, illis E. multifidi DC. vix majoribus ; involucre 

 late cylindrico, foliolis c. 8, alte connatis, apicibus liberis triangu- 



