I'esein'brvpnthenum snd sorie nev; genera separated frora it. 

 C-ard. Chron. III. 71 : 65. 1928. 

 (Continued frora page 55.) 



65 GO. --Ton of the lobes entirely v.-ithout tubercles or slight 

 furrov/s or raised dots when in a pliimp groving, condition, smooth 

 ercer^t sometimes in L. Lesliei. 



(4) L. pseudotruncetella , ILE.Br. (Fig. [53 ) .--Growths soli- 

 tary to many in a clump, up to 1 in. high and Ip in. in diameter, 

 flat or the lobes slirhtly convex on the ton, varying frora pale 

 grey to brovmish-grey v/ith a slight pinkish tinge, covered v/ith 

 numerous branching lines or dendritic markings of a darker colour 

 forms'^ of oonflijent dots, mingled with some separate dots, ^^pl^rx 

 5_'7_iobed; lobes 3-5 lines long, li--2 lines broad, oblong or ov-^te- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, pale greyish-green vdth a brov.nish tint. 'Cor- 

 olla 1^-2-:: in. in diem.eter, opening soon after mid-day and closing 

 bet"-een 6 and 7 v.m. for 6 or 7 successive days, odourless; petals 

 50-60, in 2-3 series, ^-1 in. long, and about 1 line brosd, linecr, 

 narroi'-ing to the base, obtuse, bright jellovj, with a v/hite base on 

 the inner face, faintly pinkish-white on the back. Stamens 3-4 

 lines long; anthers and upner part of the filcments pale orpnge- 

 vel^o'-, lower nprt of the filaments white. Stigmas 5-7, free 

 almost or quite t.o the brse, eouplling or slightljr exceeding the 

 stamens, fili"forra, r>ale orange -ye How. — ^K pseudotruncetellura, 

 uerp-er, Ilesemb. n. 2^9 and 256,"'Fi£r. 4 (l90s1 ; I--, truncatelluiu, W. 

 '%tson, in Gsrd.' Chron. ^^^ 1900, "ol. S7 , v, 211, with J'ig. , not of 

 Hpworth' M. truncatim, ^yer, in ^^-nn. of Sot., Vol. 20, p. 123, t. 

 7 (1916). not of Thunberg. 



^^amaraland, near ^akalswater, ^oessinr, ^"'arra -^^offnung and 

 Aus ^-'ountains, -winter. 



^escribed from living plr-nts r?ised frora seeds sent to iiew in 

 1903, \)j I'x. N, S, Fillans,'who informs me that the locality 

 *'La "^ ngsburff I>istrict" ouoted for it by %-er in the -"-nnals pf ^ot- 

 rny is entirel^r "^rong, rnd that when he sent the nlant to ■^'■ew on 

 J'rnuary 11, 1903 (by error dating his letter 1902^, he v/rote that 

 he V78S "posting e niece of the pip.nt together v;ith some seeds of 

 I-esemb. truncatellum frora German South-'^^'est -'Africa," v/hich v/ere 

 given to him by frof . Ila. c Ov"-a n , who probably received them from 

 Dinter. The letter, in writing of this plpnt (vdth out a name) 

 in the Gt-rdeners' Chronicle, 1900, "Vol. 87, n. 115, stctes that 

 " this plant so closely resembles, when not in bloom, the form 

 and colour of the nebbles among ■'hich it grows, end it can only be 

 detected "by an experienced eye." 



The beautiful flov/ers of this species s-fford an excellent ex- 

 ample of their daily increase in size v/hich I alluded to on p. 290 

 of "^ol. LT!C. One that I measured on the first day of its opening 

 v^as 1 1/3 in. in diameter, on the third die.j it v/es 1* in., end on 

 the sixth day zi in. in diameter. I^e time of expansion and clo- 

 sing pbove mentioned seems rigidly adhered to, but only if the 

 sun is shining and the temperature high enough, otherwise the 

 flower v.'ill not open. 



(5) L. Lesliei, I'. 3. Br. — Grovjths sol^torj'" or 3-4 in a 

 clump, un to li: in. hirh, 1* in. broad end 1* in. thick, f 1^; t on 

 the to^-, smooth or slirhtl^r hersh or irregulT to the touch, but 

 without an impressed reticulr tion , dark green or olive-green, den- 

 sely or spprsely covered vdth dull orrnge or rust-coloured irre-- 

 ular s^o"^.s or dandritic m.^ rldnr-s. Cj,lyx 5-5 lobed; lobes 2^-4 



