216 tulTorcle. S " ■ , _ line lonr;, ovoid, rollicl v/ith a 

 v^.,-.. ,^ ni'^^le . • ' 



''ontPSTi Division! ^etveen '^ouvsfontein '"•'^A rt.l3e!T'.orrensfon- 

 tein, ■^,000 ft. alt., t'uri 3704. 



"^lis is 8, rather peculi'-.r species, ■< L--.' - -Lve ...uu. " 3ure 

 in nrrinq, after its discoverer, t>r, «J . i-Iuir. ^enee.th eec ..t'-: 



are 5-10 old sheeths, the remains of former growths, and belov 

 •^'"^-e shesth the br?nches end stens ere naked and reniarkahle in 

 t''?jr fortnftion, for instead of the pert ^olo"' ^^here a hr&nch arises 

 beconinr ter'^-te it becomes flattened, end ' earance o:" 

 the nei- hrench hecominr decurrent and fuseu \.j.oi^ Li.tj ol '-"^ -,..rt,. 

 I do not remember to have seen any othe quite like it, it 

 certf inl"" deserves in'^estif^etion. 



_ IT. E. 3rov;n 

 ( -i-'o be continued.) 



I.:332I.3RY^ITTK3I.rUII. 

 Gard. Ghron. lH. 79: 234. 1926. 

 (Gontjnued fror- - -- 215.) 



£16 • 



G. rerviride, N, S. Br. — ''I'lant of dv/trfish grov/th, stemless 

 v^hen "OufiP'; when old may possibly acqui^ .-.V.---.+ tr&iling stem 

 like I'', fissun." In enother pl^-ce H-^.r^ : "oteiu prostrete, 



3 inches or more Ion.' . ' 'Leave inch Ion , en not 



dravm up veak, connate, punctrte, per' ecL ones unecuL.i, of e deep 

 ros''- green colour, seraic3'"llndric o"- subrcund, or in other "'ords 

 line>r-oblon/?, convex on the outs:" " ao-concpve on 'aside 



parti cul^ ■'■''' " "om the middle do'vnv; ras zp ' '■"'•'-;se, '.vith a sii--;ht 

 compressic -■■ the points, v hich are blv: . ' At other places the 



leaves are described as "Leaves oblonf"" or ''semicj'-lindric-trique- 

 troDs or sub-ovfte, ver37- ^^reen." "^'eduncle solitrj'', axillery, 

 ver;'^ short, S-eds-ed. ^clr^z s-^rTl, un^-^u; l.l-^^ 5-fid as in --. pibbo- 

 sum. Corolla e little " . ^ibbosiiiL. 



To*- Is ver^r obtuse unifomly rue icuna. ^ilfi.ents Ci.e. staiaens^ 

 nMn'-rous, short, spre.^din^, v.'hite. Anthers ^rello— ish.. Style 6, 

 very spree dinp, as lon^ es the filpments,' su' ■ ith the tips 



recurve^!, subvillose." 



"Flovrers in i>irch, before noon, but very rarelj'"." Mesembr^'"- 

 snthemuc: ^erviride, Havj. , Obs. ^'"^esemb., p. 136 (l7C : c . 



Kat., p. 37; Synop. Pi. Succ, p. 227; and Rev. 1^1. -'ucj., y. 1C4. 



South Africa* Locality and collector unknov/n. 



The above contains the whole of the descriptive chare cters 

 riven by Hg^.rorth. Although he oripT nelly described tlie leeves as 

 "nunctste," he does not repeat thet character in his other descrip- 

 tions, end T believe that the dots alluded to were merely spots 

 upon the leaves made by insects or some other cause (as L have 

 founc' to hpT^r>en in other genera occasionally) and not subse- 

 quently seen upon the plant, and t ore not afterv.-ards mention- 

 e'', "^or 1 believe that such as are round on various species of 

 true l-esembryan+henum. 



G. nilosulu:.i, -■. :i, -r. (-ig. 119). — ^ov/tlis under n: turc 1 

 conditions 6-9 lines in diameter and subglobose or obcordately 

 obovoid, but under cultivation becomig 12-13 lin':s hirh, 8-12 



