55 Don, "^en. 3yst, ^^pl. 3, p. 126; Merger, ^■^esemb., p. 291; M. 



Hookeri, Berger, --esemb, p. 283 and 2B4, f. 64, copied from Bot. 

 Mse-., (l908). H. truncs tellum, Kook, f. Sot. l-feg, , t. 6077, not 

 of Ha^'orth, 



Pr5.esk8 division, at ^and Viei, Burchell, Pole Svans. This 

 srtecies vrss the first that vres discovered of these ver^r reiaarkehle 

 "rainier;^'-" pnd 'Vindovred" plants, hut as I have already giveji some 

 account of its discover;"- end rediscovery on p." 250, Vol. Li^-. , 

 I need only add here that the above description v"as mtide from the 

 liv.ing rslants that were so generously sent to me by Dr. I. 3, 

 Pole "^ans, and the fijmre is re^iroduced from a. Dhotograrh kindly 

 sent to me by -'r. ". -'. Leslie. This figure represents the tub- 

 erculate form, but I also hav^ other forms that are very much 

 smoother with only a coarse meshv/'ork of slightly impressed lines 

 unon the top of the plant. 



In this very interesting account of plant mimicry, ^r. ^'^^r- 

 loth (Trans. 3. Afr. Phil. 3oc., Vol. 15, p. 99), remarks that 

 "Burchell, "in his travels through the Karroo found e species of 

 I-eserabr^rpnthemum v'hich he named M. turbini forme, thinking it to 

 be undescribed. As a matter of fact it had been found by Thun- 

 berg, v^ho had named it t-. truncatum from the shape of its leaves." 

 Dr. -aroth has in this been misled by bonder's union of these 

 two srecies in the ?lora Capensis. -^or not only are they two 

 utterly different sr^ecies, but one is a Lithops end the other a 

 Conorh""-tum, and grow about two hundred miles av'ay from, each other. 



(?) P. fulvice-ns, N. S.Bp. — Growths solitary or 2-4 in a 

 clump, u'^ to 1 in. high, 14 in. broad, and 1 in. thick, nearly 

 flat or slightly convex at the top, which varies from bright ful- 

 vous to dingy pinkish-rust colour, thickly sprinkled with rather 

 larp"e, round, dark green dots, v/hich are usually slightly raised, 

 but som.etim.es almost even with the surface, and scattered eimong 

 the dots are fev; or several inconsr^icuous slender dark orange- 

 red irregular linr^s or dots, usually placed in slight depressions 

 of the surface, so that the latter is usually very slightly tuber- 

 cula te-rugulose to the touch. Galyx 4-6 lobed; lobes 2i-5 lines 

 long, li-3 lines broad, linear-oblong, obtuse, brovmish or brovvnisji- 

 fulvous, sometimes tinted vlth pale violaceous, dotted. Corolla 

 10-14 lines in diameter, expanding betv/een 3 and 4 p.m. (Greenwich 

 time), and closine* at night, lasting about a vfeek, odourless; 

 petals 40-45, in about 8 series, 4-5 lines long, and less than 

 1 line bro^-d, linerr, sub-acute, the inner bright yellov/ on both 

 sides, the outer whitish with a faint pink tinge on the back, with 

 the tirs often becoming more or less red on both sides. Stamens 

 about 3 lines long; filaments deep Yellovi ochreous fading to pale 

 yellow at the base; anthers yellow. Style short, u^^ to 1 ine 

 lonf, stigm-as 4-6, about 3 lines long, slightly exceeding: the 

 stamens, filiform, rich ochreous yellow. — i'-'i. fulviceps, K« S. 

 Brown., in Kew Bull., 1914, p. 167^ Bot. Mag. t. 8776a, an ex- 

 tremely bad figure of the plant. ^T^eat %maqualand. Great •'^ras- 

 berg "^pnge, on s^-nd','' rlains at South i'^'arudas, 4,300 ft. above sea 

 level, Pearson 7P12. 



^escribed from livinc- plants sent to -England by Prof. ^'■. -•»■, 

 '/. Pearson. In my original description I sta^^ed that this plfnt 

 is smooth on the tOT^; that statement was based upon a single speci- 

 men which nrob.-bly v.-as nearly smooth, but numbers of others examined 

 since ^'-ere as above described. W* -^» ^rown 



(To be continued.) 



