■a-. 



24 the st^le, slightly thickened upwards. 



L?:in/?sbur? ^iv. , near Laingsburg, I'ole Sv&ns, 6916 



(To be continued.) 



Mesembryantbemura and some ner; genera separated from it, 

 Gard. Chron. III. 72*. 54. 1922. 



(Continu'-'r' -frori rr, ere 1S4. ) 



54 41. 0, T^etr':ieum, -•• ^« --r. (^^ig. 24). Gror/ths b-6 lines 



lon^-, 2-3 lines brord and li-2 lines thick, obconic , convex r nd 

 elliptic in outline at the top, glaucous-green or slightly bluish- 

 f-reen, marked in a somev/hat regular nanner with interrupted or 

 ■ continuous lines of confluent blackish-purple or very dark green 

 dots; one such line usur:i.lly extends over the ciiddle of the top 

 from each side of the orifice, and branching from or disconnected 

 v.lth this centrrl line on each side are tv/o sir;ir)le or forked linos 

 end one 'or tv;o separate dots. *^alyx 4-lobed. ^orolla only seen 

 in s dried state apparently about 3 lines in diameter, with about. 

 ?5 petals, probably yhitish, in the dried flower seen usually 

 msr!<-ed Y;ith from 1-3 lineer glands, ^tamens all Vv'ith exserted 

 3'-ellov; anthers. Style about ^- line lon,~; stirnas 4, about ^ line 

 lono", slightly,'' thickened upwards. 



I-aingsburf -"iv., near I-aingsburg, ^ole Svans. 



42. G, vagum, ^o 3, ^v. (^ig. 25). Growths under cultivation 

 variable in size end form, 5-7 lines long, 3-6 lines broad and 2-|-- 



5 lines thick, some, as viev/ed from above, regularly elliptic in 

 outline, others more or less distinctly six-angled, the angulation 

 seems chiefly confined to the larp"er growths, obconic, with the 

 to^ slif'htly convex ^nd the larger growths slightly keeled, 

 smooth, g]8ucous-green or greyish-green, v/ith about 3 dots on 

 e'rch side of the orifice, behind the middle dot on eech side ex- 

 tends a str^icrht line o^ ^lore or less connected dots, tov/ards 

 the middle angles, and on eech side of that line at a little dis- 

 tance from it are one ortvra dots or a diverging line of dots 

 directed towards the lateral angles, all dark purple-brown. 

 Calyx 5-lobed, with the tube 2 lines long, and partly exserted. 

 Gornlla 7-10 lines in diameter, expanding in the evening, not scen- 

 ted, closed during the day; tube not longer than the calyx; pet- 

 als 26-31 lines in 1-2 series, very lax, widely spreading, 3-4 

 lines long, very narrowly linear, acute, white. Stamens about 

 20, in 3 series, all more or less exserted from the corolla-tube; 

 anthers light yellov/. 2^yie , half s line long; stigiij£is 5, erect, 

 1 line long, not nearly reaching to the lov/er anthers, filiform. 



South Africa. Locality unknown. This species v/as sent to 

 me bv Irof. P. I-i?cOT"an, in 1873. 



43. C. scitulujn. N. S. ^r. Growths 6-7 lines long, 4-7 

 lines breed, and 3i--6j lines thick, obconic, somewhat convex at 

 the broadly elliptic top (tyr^e S) ^ with or without a slight trans- 

 verse notch at the centre, greyish-green, tinted with purple on 

 the sides and marked on the top in a m£'.p-like manner v^ith branch- 

 ing' and more or less connected lines of ? dark purnle-brown or 

 violet-brovn coloiir, or (if not exrosed to the sun) dark green. 

 Gal:"-x 4-lobed. Corolla 3-8 lines in diameter, expending in the 

 evening, scentless; tube equa] !1 ing or longer than the calyx; 



