135 tuse or fcute, wliite. Stamens numerous, in sever£5l series, erect 

 end loose or spreading so ss to foria a ring, l-|--o lines lon:j; 

 filaments fili'forn, not diluted nor cilia te at the base, v.iiite; 

 anthers creeoiy white. Stigmas 8-9, erect, with spreading tips, 

 about S lines long, filiform or subul'jte, acute, ^reen. Ovary- 

 flat or very slightly convex et the top, 8-9-celled. Capsule" a- 

 bout 5 lines in diameter, very slightly convex, v/ith 8-9 raised 

 ridges on the to^, snd with 8-9 valves s.nd cells; velves with the 

 expanding-keels diverging from their bcse, adnate to about the 

 mi^.dle of the valve v/ith the urper part free, provided v/ith broc.d, 

 rounded, membrenous vdngs t' t, are often united in pairs bet'vveen 

 the vslves; cells roofed ' flattish nembranous cell-v/lngs, 

 without a tubercle at the opening. Seeds very numerous in- each cell, 

 abou.t i line in diameter, subglobose, pale brov.n, with a dark 

 brown ni'-Ple, smooth. 



I.'esembryanthemum Heathii , N. E. "r-., in ^ourn. Linn. Sqc. 

 ^ot., vol. ^''., p. 67. 



Ledismith division: In the Klein Keroo betv/een Garcias ^ass 

 -^nd Iddj smith, Pillrns 890; near Adrms Krpal, I^-uir 3415; at 

 "ondewater, Tuir 3665, 5776, and 3777 at ^^-Igcr'^ns '^-rssl^ iluir 

 ""75; and v/ithout precise locality, i^uir 377 , ""-' . 



^'^-is very distinct plant was firs-fc introauueu in 1906 by 

 'r. ". 3. Fi^lans, who sent plants of it to Kev/, which soon died; 

 a cf-psule upon one of them was, hov^ever, given to Qp. ?. ^^. 

 '^•c^i'^r Heath, who raised soir- -■'-nts from the seeds, V:hich is 

 "'■' - soiirce whence most of t' its nov/ in cultivetion have 

 oris-inated. 



According to -^r. J. --uir it is common locrlly in several 

 r<^rts of the Klein Karoo, end is knov/n to the Dutch former by 

 the name of "Vogelstruis V7ater," i.e., Ostrich-v/aters , as 

 Ostriches eat, them for •'"''"^ rr^+o-r. fv,-, -t- • c ^r^n•f--- i nor I'n their sue-, 

 Calient growths. 



Kept constantly in a greenhouse, this plant seldom floi'^ers, 

 but in hot, sunny sumrp.ers, i:^ given as much open a ir''. treatment 

 as possible, it is less difficult to get it to flower. 

 IT. E. Browh 



(-0 be continued.) 



IvSSSfvIBRYAN'niSIvIUl.I . 

 Gard. Ghron. HI. 79: 155. 1926. 

 (Continued from page 135.) 



155 2.— H. du.bia, N. E. Br. lirbit Just the same &s that of 



?'. He?thii, '"ith under cultivr-tion the grov/ths corwded upon short 

 brfnchelets from the rootstock,. Crov,tHs |--1 inch long, 4-8 

 ] ines bropd and 3-6 lines thick, obovoid, slightly compressed, 

 with the two leeves of v;hich they pre composed usually more or 

 less unequal in length and rounded at the apex, with the fissure 

 between them A-7 lines deep; surf-ce smooth, glabrous, uniformly 

 glaucous-rreen, v/ithout dots or other m.^rkings. -'lowers and 

 fruit un knov/n. 



Tesembryanthemum fissum, N. E. Bp. , in Journ. Linn. Sqc, 

 vol. XL^, D. 67, not of 



155 Haworth. South ^-^f rica : Locality and collector unknown. 



I give this plant a distinctive name with some hesit&tion, 

 bee-use its origin end its flowers ere unknovm, and it is so much 

 like H, Kesthei that there is nothfng but size and a rather differ- 

 ent green colour to distinguish it from th acies. In xny 

 experience, under the same conditions, it increases much more 



