f iOT.re. 



South Africa. Locelitj'- snd collector unknown. 



'I'his species increases nore roridly and flo\-ers more freely 

 than anj other species of this group in cultivction, and a v.ell 

 fro'^'T! rilpnt in full floi"er is very charming. No ides of its beeuty 

 can "be obtained from the bad representation of it in the Botanical 

 I-agazine. 



55. G. gracilistylum, N. S. Br. Plant not forming stems 

 with age. '^rovths 10-15 lines long, 5-8 lines broad and 4t-5-r 

 I'nes thick, oblonp-, conpressed, v/ith lobes 2-3^ lines long (type 

 3), p-laucous-sreen or bluish-green, more or less distinctly dot- 

 ted all over vith darker green, and v;ith a red l:eel to the lobes. 

 Calyx 3-4-lobes. Corolla Vj-lO lines in diameter, expanding, in 

 the daytime end remaining oren irrespective of sunshine or cloudy 

 y/eather, scentless; tube as long as the calyx; pets Is 25-30 in 

 2 series, bright pink or bright magenta on both sides, v/hite at 

 the base Stamens about 40, in 4 series, v.dth the upper anthers 

 Just shov.dng, at the mouth of the corolla-tube, yellow. Style 

 4-5 lineslon^f, slender; stigmas 4, about l| line long, exserted 

 and recurving amon^ the anthers. I', grpcilistylum. L. Bolus in 

 Ann. 3. Afr.^^^s., v. ?_, p. 141, pi, 3, f. 1 (1913). Namaqualand. 

 Hill sout of Stinkf ontein, Pearson 5572. 



57. C. turrigerum, N. E. ^r. Plant not forming stems v;ith 

 are. '^-ro^'-ths 5-6j lines long, 4f-6 lines broad across the top of 

 the lobes and 3 Tines thick; lobes 2-3 lines long, sucylindric 

 and about 2-|-3 lines in diameter (type T) angularly convex from 

 the ■nresence of raised lines connected in a map-like manner and 

 enclosing' slightly depressed areas, light greyish green or glau- 

 cous-green, v^rith the raised lines of ver^'- dark green, and sll the 

 lover T>art more or less tinted vrith purplish and dotted with dark 

 green, ^lovrers not seen. I-. turrigerum, I^. E. ^r. ^ in ^ourn. 

 Linn. 3oc. ^ot., v. 45, p. 102. 



I^'Jalmesbury I^iv. Vicinity of ^libheuvel , Pillans. 



Excluded Species 



i'esembrvantheraum nanum Schlechter, in -^ngl . *^ahrb. "^ol. 27, 

 f. 12", has been i^leced among this group of Sphaeroids, but the 

 me't'erial and description ?re too imperfect to permit of a definite 

 •nlpce under Conophytum, to which it may not belong. 



iI.E. ^rown 

 (•'■o be continued.) 



l-esembrvanthemum and some new genera separated from it. 

 Gard. Ghron. HI. 78? 211. 1925. 



(Continued from Vol. LiGiIi^ p. 124) 



n 



'^jen the v.^ords "To be continued" vere published in The 

 hardeners' Chronicle for 1922, Vol. KIXIl^ p. 124, at the end of 

 mv t'^irty-third article upon this group of plants 1 had no idea 

 thp t so long a period would elapse before those v-ords v/ould take 

 effect. The delay has been partly caused b-^^ adverse circumstances 

 over ■'"hich I had no control, and partly and chief l^"" because, Just 

 before th«>t article was published I made a discovery that caused 

 me to ma"'^e fresh investigf-tion in the structure of the flov/ers. 



