30 exserted from the mouth of the corolls-tuhe, p.^ le yellowish,. 

 SfO.e "-4 lines lon^; stigmas 5, flliforra, 21 lines long end ex- 

 sert-^d above the anthers for all their length, slightljr spreading 

 ■nale ye!" lowl sh. 



little Name rue leiic'^ • '^rohe.hly fron betv/een ^tinkfontein and 

 Chubnessls, as it \"es sent by Professor Pearson along with C. 



bilobum. ^^» "^^ Brovm 



(To be continued.) 



li!ESEH!BRYANTHlMJM . 

 Ot'.rd.^Chron. HI. 7°: 43. 1926. 

 ('Continued from page 30 ) . 



OOFIIYTW.!. 



48 2. Oophytum, N,E,Br, Perennial, less th^n an inch high, 



tu-fted, succulent. Growths of smell, ovoid (or under cultivetlon 

 elonff?ted-ovold) , soft and .pulpy bodies, with a small fissure at 

 the enex, heving its lips closed or gnpin^?-. ^'lov^er solitary'-, 

 partly or .-^ust exserted from the notch. Caljoc produced above 

 its union with the ovpry into a short green (non nenbrenous) 

 tube, 6-7 lobed above. Gorollr of numerous pete Is in 2-3 series, 

 rirobeblj;^ free, but in the withered flowers seen apparently uni- 

 ted at the base into a very short tube, v/hich may have been due 

 to '^artirl '■"deliquescence and adhesion of the parts? Stamens 

 msny, eredt. St-le non; stigmas 6 or perhaps sometimes 5, flli- 

 forra. Overy half or more than half-superior, depressed and with 

 6 ridges on" the top, 6-clled; placentas on the floor of the cells. 

 CarsvJe v.dth 6 valves and cells;, each valve with is expanding- 

 keels closely contlguoiis so as to form one stoiit, central keel 

 distinct from the cell-partitions, and having broad, spreading 

 membranous marginal wings, that ere sometimes united In pairs 

 T^et'"aeri the valves; ce^'ls open, without cell-vn".ngs. Seeds sever- 

 al in each cell, smr""!, compressed-ovoid, with a nlrple at the 

 narrc" end. 



Species 1, native of Van %.ynsdorp ^ivison, South Africa. 



The name is derived from the Greek, oon, an egg, and phyton, 

 ^ T^lant, In allusion to the small egg-shared growths of the 

 i^lf^nt as it p-rows under natural conditions. 



I am unable to give a dia^r^m of the florr^l structure of 

 this eenus, as the idea of making such diegrpms did not occur 

 to me on the onlv occasion I have had the opnortunit-'- of doing so. 



0. oviforme, I'^^.Br. ^powths , as developed in South -Africa, 

 ^-5 lln-^s hip-h and 2-5 lines thick, becoming, under my cultiva- 

 tion, C-9 lines high and 3-6 lines thick, ovoid, obovold or cylln- 

 ""rical-ovoid, obtuse or ver^; convex at the tor, v^ith en apical 

 fissure-like orifice l-2i lines long; rrther soft in substance; 

 surface glabrous rather thickly covered vath minute pimples, or 

 raised dots as seen under a lens, green (not glaucous-green), 

 with the dots or rlmnl^s d-rker and slightly shining; sheaths 

 soft, rsle brovm. Flower just ex'-erted from or the calyx inclu- 

 ded vritin the orifice, ^cl-^^ globose, 6-7-lobed, ^reen; tube li- 

 ■^ lin'^p lone, Incliidinp- the part adn'-te to the ovrry; lobes 1-3 

 lines lon^ f nd 3/4-1 line brord, oblon^Q-, obtuse. Corolla 5-9 lines 

 in diameter; petals nuinerous, in 2-3 series, 3-5 lines long, 1/6- 

 i lines broad, linear, obtuse, stated to be rosy or pale magenta, 

 but in the v/ithered flowers seen are apparently v/hltlsh. 



