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1.33 WlHRY AWTn SmUm , 

 Gard. Chron. HI. 78: 5OO. 1925, 

 (Continued from pef?e 404.) 



■ C4840 

 500 C. Fearsoni vrr. minor, ^^. 3. Br. — Exectly like the type 



but smaller in pll its ports. Grov'th 6-7^ lines high end 4>;-7t 

 lines in diameter. "e.ljx 4-lo'bed; tube 2-2i lines lonf, exser- 

 ted ss we"* 1 as often pert of the ovppy; ].obes § line lines in 

 dipmeter; retpls 20-25, about ?-4 lines long, end 2/3 - 1 1/4 

 line bros>d; staminodes 1-lt lines long. Style about ^ line long; 

 stifm^s 4, sbout l/4 line long. 



In m3'' T>revious pccount of this plant I unf ortun- tely mis- 

 took and described it for the plant named ^-. -^'ettsteinii by 

 Berber, v^ich it so closely resenbles, thet, in the absence of a 

 flmare sho^^'inp structurel details o"*^ the flov/er, I certainly 

 thoup'ht it wgs the same s^^ecies. But having aftervrards obtained 

 a nlant O"" the original ^'^. ''^ettsteinii, and having nov; hed both 

 r)lpnts in flover together, I find that they represent •. o dis- 

 tinct species. As mi'" previous description (v/ith the exception 

 of the mention of dots on the grov/ths) was entirely made from 

 Jeprson's r>lpnt, I shall give, later, a description of the true 

 ^. "'ettsteinii. 



The variety minor I am quite unable to distinguish from 

 t'"-plc?l C, Fearsonii by am^ chrrscter except size, 



16. — G. rurpusii, i^. ^. -^r, — On account of its eerlier 

 r^ublic^tion this is a change of name for C. albertense, ^'^, E. Bp., 

 in '^-arc'. Chron., 192"^, v. 71, p. 261, which^must nov; stand s 

 a S77-nonym o-^ the above; other synonyms ere '^■-. purpusii_, Sehvcntes 

 in '-onat.^sch, f. Kakt., "•-arch 1920, p. ^6, ^ith fig.; i". minus- 

 culum, 'jchvrpntes on Monatssch, f. Xakt, I^Iarch 1920, p, 40, with 

 f iff. , not o-f* ^T.E. Brown; ". fajniliare, /Schv/antes in --onatssch. 

 ^. ?^.kt., Ser>tember, 1922, -n. 129; ^-, malleoliforme, •Schv/antes 

 in !'onatssch. f. Ka'-t., ^-a-"-' 192", v, 77, with fig.; J'', albertense, 

 "\ ■^. ^r., in -^ourn. Linn. Soc. 3ot., y. 45, p^. 92 (July 1920 ), 

 Frince '-Ibert division: Prince -Ibert Karoo, ^'^rloth 11,271, 



All the above nam-es, in my opinion, undoubtedly belong to 

 one and the same species. They v^ere all collected in the ■^'throo 

 ne^r Prince Albert Road, by Dr. R. I-erloth and others. Mr. 3ch- 

 v/rntes has obligingly sent to me i-'ortions of his t;rpe plants of 

 • '. Pu-^ri^usii- and I', familiare (syn. ^''-. minusculum, ^chv/antes 

 not 0-" -^."S.Brovn) , and these certainly represent only one species 

 ' '" " are identical with G. albertense, -^.^.-"r. I h?ve not seen 



. malleoli'^orme, which ^--r. 3chwani.es informs me has died out 

 o-f cultivation, but there is no character whatever in the descrip- 

 tion or figure that distinguishes it from 0, lurrusii, I-ir. 

 Schwantes considered it different on account of its larger size, 

 but I have ffrovrt^s upon my pl'^nt of C. Furpusii (C. albertense) 

 «s lar^e as those figured for \ malleoliforme and others smaller 

 ■^han the smallest figured for ^^ I'urpusii, all on the same indivi- 

 lucl. ^r. -tarloth has also informed me that he collected end 

 sent only one species from Prince --Ibert Road, but that different 

 '--'"Tviduals varied somewhat in rnxrlrin'^s and appearance, e7:r;:Ctly 



I find them to do in ot?ier species, as, for examrle, in 

 ^. -■evi'^lei, 0. pl^citum, 0. trunca tellum,_ etc. 



It may be ■'-ell to pint out that ^"r. ^chwantes describes this 

 and other species as havin""' the surface covered with verj"" lainute 

 pariillae. Tb.is is misle' " , for I find — frori ell the species 



