9 obliquely to one another, 2-5 Inches lonr, S^.-t lines broad near 

 the base' and 3-4 lines thick soraewhet cylindric, but with the 

 inner free more or less flattened, not at all keeled on the back, 

 acute or subobtuse, smooth, glabrous, light green, not at all 

 glaucous nor dotted. Fiov/ers subsessile or on pedicels 1-2 lines 

 lonfT and li line thick. Gal;"TC 4.-lobes; lobes 3-4;o lines long and 

 as much in breadth, bropdly ovate, obtuse, freen, ell v/ith mem- 

 branous p^rf'ins. Corolla 2-3 inches in diameter, cup-sViaped, ex- 

 panding in sunshine, scentless; petals about 50, in 1 series, lax, 

 12-16 lines long and about 1 line broed, linear, very obtuse or 

 subtruncete and notched at the apex, bright yellow on both sides. 

 3tpmens numerous, erectly spreading in a ring around the stigmas; 

 filements r>ale-yellow; anthers d^^rker yellov;. Stigmas 7-8, widely 

 spre-^d-T nf , about 2 lines lon^, lanceolate, acute, plumose, pale 

 yellov:ish-green. Capsule subglobose, with a hif?h dome-like top, 

 3-5 lines in diameter j_ 7-8 valved. 



Sent to me from "^evenf ontein in Sv.reiiendam division, by ^r. 

 I. B.^Pole ^hrpns, 6922. It flov;ered in Septeraber, 1921. 



"i^his srecies is easily distinguished from all the others by 

 its ascendins'", nervlj cy] indric-leaves . N. E. Brown- 



(To be continued.) 



I-esembrvanthemum and some nev^ senera sei^r rated from it. 

 Gard. ^hron. HI. 71 : 22. 1922. 

 (Continued from pp^e 9.) 



22 *** Leaves vjith a hump or food teeth on the flattened base. 



16. Ct. di -"forme, N, S, Bp. Leaves as described by Hav7orth 

 obliquely cruciate, 1-6 in. long and i-i in. broad, some semicylin- 

 ^ric from the base upv.'a.rd with a '"ind of half-t-ist at about the 

 middle-, vrith a sort of lobe-like tooth near the compressed-trique- 

 trous or somev^hat dolabriform tir, T'.rhich often ends in a straight 

 curved or hooked harmless bristle; other leaves v;ithout either a 

 tooth or lobe-like rising, but hooked or gibbous near the point, 

 or vnlth a concavity above, one side of which forms a ridge. Some 

 leevesmicroscoriically cilia te towards the tip. Peduncle of plants 

 flowerinp" in the oren air very short or scarcely any except the 

 ou'^drangular base of the c&ljx. ^lov^er 2-2-4 in. in diameter with 

 fev;er, longer and more lex petals than in C. semicylindicum, acco- 

 rd1n<? to a drsv/ing at Kew. 



-'. dif forme, Linn., 3p. Pi., ed. 1, n. 487 partly, as to i^. 

 foliis difformibus, ^illen. , ^'^-ort. 31 th., r. 252, t. 194, f. 242 

 (not 24l), and Hrv;. , ^hs., v, 169 (l795) not of other authors. 



I^ie two figures of DiHenius were considered to re^^resent one 

 sriecies hy Linne, but Hr-v/orth retained the name '^'^, difforme for 

 the nlfint represented by ^^j.^. 242, and separated that figured at 

 241 un-'er the name of I-. semicylindricura, and he r,?as probably 

 right, for I have not seen any among' the plants I have raised of 

 the latter species at all like the ^il^enian figure 242, v/hich 

 rer-resents the pedicel as being about k in. long and distinctly 

 '^n'^uJ'^r, and there is drawing at ^^ev/, made in 1826, of wh? t was 

 doubtiess the ^lant Hav/orth described, which has the pedicel 

 aboxit an inch long, much thickened upwards and almost winged-an- 

 gular (Haworth states under ^'. cruciatum, Cbs., p. 175, that it is 

 "no^ o-^ equal thickness"), But probably both these figures v;ere 



