S14 different ^-Ipnt or even on the same rlent in different years. 

 (Species 5-15.) ^N. S. Bpovm 



("^o be continued.) 



I'-esembrventhedum end some new penerr. se^^arated from it. 

 Gard.^Chron. III. 7i: E31. 1922.^ 

 (Continued from page 214.) 



231 C . Fio'ver ye]. low. 



6. C. calculus, K. E, Bp. Gpov/ths p-lobose (type D) , 7-10 

 lines in diameter, light glaucous -green or chalky-green; the old 

 withered skin is very tough and of a pale brov/n, becoming black- 

 ish-brown with age. Gpiyx 5-6-lobed. Corolla 7-8 lines in diameter, 

 expanding at night, closed during the day; tube 3§-4 lines long; 

 petals 40-50 in 3-4 series, 3^-4 lines long; filiform — linear, 

 yellow. Stamens exserted about^2 lines from the coroMa-tube, 

 whitish, with yellow anthers. •'■op of the ovary dome-like. Style 

 verv short; stiCTias 6, filiform, greenish. — M, calculus, Merger, 

 ^'^senb. P. 2P9 (l908) , I'%rloth, Fl. '^outh -^^f r . , v. 1, n. 201, t. 



49, f. B. 



Van Rhynsdorp Div. Near ^ieuwerust, I'esrson 5515; ne?r 5aic- 

 huis, Pearson 547i; Hardeveld, l-Iarloth 4573; -^rs. Hood. 



7. G. Fageae, N. E. Bp. 3-rowths 4-5 lines high and 3-5 

 lines in diameter, obconic, flattish at the top (type ^), with the 

 orifice sometimes slightly depressed, sometimes (in the ver;?" same 

 plant) uniforml:,/- bright green, at others bright apple-green, v;ith 

 the sides and around the orifice of a rich purple", i^lowers not 

 seen, but figured in a drawing as being 4-6 lines in diameter and 

 yellow, v/ith the tips of the petals tinted v^ith red. — M. Pareae, 

 T'l'.T.Er. in ^"^ourn. Linn. 3oc . Sot., v. 4::, p. 96, 



Little ITama qualand . 'Nesr Caries, 2urke,. 



The manner in vrhich this snecies changes it colour in differ- 

 ent years under cultivation (^t" least with'me 1 it is very remark- 

 able, '"'^hen the rich purple CQlouring around the orifice is pre- 

 sent it is an exceed^'ngly attractive plant, yet sometimes this is 

 entirely absent; for examnle, in 1919 and 1920 the purple was 

 T^resent on my plant, yet during the hot sunny yerr o^ 1921 it vas 

 entirel3?- absent on the very same plants. 



CO. Flower of some shade of red, or perhaps whitish in C. 

 s^^cetanum, colour unkr--" :">- C. subrisuni. "(Species 8-14.) 



S. C. globosum, i^',2. -^r. (Fig. I2l). Growths of introduced 

 plants originalljT- globose and about 5-6 lin s in diameter (type B) , 

 becorainr under cultivation slight] v globose-obcordate (type ^0, 

 sM sometimes l-l* inch in dirmeter, of a slightly bluish^green 

 colour. Corolla of a slightly bluish-green colour. Corolla 1-1 

 inch in diameter, expanding in the morning, closing inthe after- 

 noon, scentless, funnel-shaped, with 40-50 petrels in 3 series, 

 v/hite P:t the lower part and light pink at the apical part, -i-nthers 

 yellow, a^yie 3-5 lines long, slender , v/ith 4 filiform sigmas. — 

 -'. globosum, -^\E. Br. in Kev; B^ll,, 1913, p. 119. Lycoperdi- 

 astruji soboliferum al.tius radicatum, etc. Burroann, i^ar. -c^-fr.- 

 Pi. p. 22, t. 10, t. 2. probably belongs her§. 



Little I^amaqualand. i'-ear G^ries, Pearson 5582, Pillans. 



