129 thpt I hsd made a mistake. Upon inquiry of J^ir. N. 3, Pilians, 

 he has ^iven me pprticulars vihich confirm my suspicion that both 

 "belono; to the seme species, different as they appear. For pl&nts 

 of G, puhescens thet he cultiveted neer Cape Tov/h (owinp* to the 

 gref=?ter moisture of that region) lost their silvery-white colour 

 and hecame greenish-v/hite, and produced growths somewhat like 

 those represented by Fig, 64. A, copied from the ^artenf lorei . 

 My ovm plant hrs nov/ chenged' from silver3'"-white to green ish-v/hite, 

 and is making short branches, so that there can be no doubt of 

 their identity. 



2. CJ. shandii N.3. 3r. (Fig. 64, ^ and 3).— Habit and 

 p-enerpl appearance of the riant almost the same as thet of &. 

 pubescens, but in the only specimens seen the grov/ths were rather 

 shorter and stouter, being 10-18 lines long and 6-8 lines thick 

 at the basial part, the apical part they are slightly coripressed 

 and faintly keeled dov.Ti the front. The smooth surface is velvet- 

 y to the touch from being covered with a very minute pubescence 

 of very short irrepularly stellately branched hairs that are 

 totally different from those of G-. pubescens, as represented, 

 highly magnified, in Fig. 64, 3, and are only distinguishable 

 under a strong lens, grej'^ish-green or hoary-green, not so silvery 

 as in Cr, rubescens. Flower not seen. Fruiting pedicels 3-4 lines 

 lonn-, comr^ressed, ruberulous like the grovths at the urper part 

 ohly. —K Shandii, N.3. Br. in Gard. Ohron. 921, v. 70, p.* 151, 

 fig. 52, cepsule only. ^ ^ 



Sv.'ellendam Siv. Near "^evenf ontein, ^ole Fv£.ns 6921, 



^ have much pleasure in naming this species after I>^r. John 

 Shand, I'^gistrate of Ladysmith, T'ho is interested in the flore of 

 South Africa, and assisted in the collecting of some of the spec- 

 ies O"^ this genus. 



Although so simile]^ to G-. pubescens in general appearance, 

 the character o"*' the minute pubescence is so very different that 

 it ?.s at once distinguished from that species \>y it, v/hen examined 

 under a lens. I have raised seedlings of both species, and the 

 pubescence on the seedlings of each kind rem.ains distinct and con- 

 stant, exrcf^y like that^of their parents. The peculiar stellate- 

 ly branches hairs of G. "^hanclii are not deflexed -^^/'^ not half so 

 long as those of G. pubescens. 



G, geminum, N.E. Bp. (Fig, 64, F, ) — ilsnt developing pros- 

 trate branches 2-3 inches lon^ in the specimen seen, and i-r|- 

 line thick, vrith internodes 2|--7v;- lines long, bearing a pair or 

 sometimes only one growth at each node. Growths 9-12 lines long 

 ancl about 3 lines thick, or larger under cultivation, erect, cy- 

 ? indric or si irhtl""- compressed at the upper part and more or 

 less keeled on the front and ba. ck, obtusely rounded at the apex, 

 '•'hich is often slirhtly incurved with the m.outh-like fissure much 

 below the middle, and the bod^r slightlj'" bulging on that side below 

 it, smooth, velvety to the touch, glabrous to the eye, but under 

 a stron*^ lens seen to be covered v/ith a pubescence of ver^^ minute 

 branched hairs like those shown in "^ic* 64, S, VJhitish-green, 

 "^lowers unknown. Fmitinp- pedicels iip to 6 lines long. Capsule 

 2-3 lines in diameter, 6-vaived, white; valves v/inged; cells 

 roofed over by membranous vings, and the outer end of each celD. 

 open. 



Ladysm-ith Div. Karoo south-v/est of Touwsberg, ^ole -Svans 

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