their length, diverging at the tips, vith narrow, membranous wings, 

 and awn-like tirs, ell of the same pellid ochreous colour as the 

 valves; cells roofed with stiffish submembranous transparent cell- 

 wings not r-'sing to the level of the expanding-keels, and the 

 OTiening nearly closed by a large, globose, v;hite tubercle, which 

 forms a nice contrp.st to the pale ochreous which colour of the 

 pretty stsr-likt capsule. Seeds 1/3 line in diameter, globose- 

 ovoid, smooth, pale brov.mish, ^v/ith a brovm nipple at one end. 



Mesembryanthemum Caroli-^chmidtii, Dinter and -tierger in 

 Engler, Bot. ^ahrb., vol. L. Surpl., p. 587 (l914). 



Fig. 215 is from a photograph by Mr. T. N. Leslie, taken in 

 South Africa, and represents the plant of natural size when grow- 

 ing under favoiirable conditions, but I have seen plants that have 

 been sent direct from their native locality with leaves scarcely 

 half the size of those in the figure, owing to drought in their 

 native nlace. 



Great Namaoualand! near Aus, Dinter, ^ogers, -Pole Evans, 

 Phillins. 



C. cigarettifera, N. E. Br. (^'ig. 21?) — i'erennial, tufted, 

 about an inch high or rather more under cultivation, glabrous,. 

 In its natural renting state consisting of a tuft of withered, 

 grey or brovmish, cylindric, or cup-like sheaths, 4-5 lines long, 

 truncate at the toT5, bearing two withered leaf-tips 2-3 lines long 

 and enclosing a pair of erect, nearly free leaves, 5-7 lines long. 

 Under cultivation the nearly free pair of leaves develop end be- 

 come 8-20 lines long, 24-4i lines broad and S-2^ lines thick at 

 the base, v/here they are very shortly united, slightly narrowing 

 upvrards, obtuse, minutely ariculate, flat above, very convex on the 

 back at the lovrer part, obtusely keeled at the apical part and the 

 keel at the apex minutely denticulate; surface smooth, dull light 

 glaucous-green, dotted, with the margins and sometimes the keel 

 marked with a lipe of dots.- The next pair of leaves are \inited at 

 the base for2/3-4 of their length into an oblong-ovoid body 4-5 

 lines long, 4 lines broad and three lines thick, shortly 2-lobed at 

 the tor, the lobes being erect end like the free leaves in shape 

 and colour, but smaller. From the centre of this body arises either 

 a flower or, after a time a pair of nearly free leaves, and the 

 body then withers to form a whitish or grey truncate, sleeve-like 

 sheath. Pedicel 6-18 lines long, nearly 1 line thick, terete, 

 light green, smooth. Calyx eaually 5-lobed; ovary part hemispherical, 

 about if line longhand 3-3f lines in diameter, green; lobes reflexed, 

 5 lineslong, Is-li line ^road, oblong, obtuse, some with narrow 

 membtanous margins, ^^orolla 14-18 lines in diameter, expanding 

 about midday even in dull, sunless weather, if the temperature is 

 about 70°, but then the petals only spread out flat and are crowded, 

 while in bright sunshine they are more lax and all recurved, or 

 the tvro outer series are recurved and the Inner series horizontal, 

 6-8 line long, 2/3-i line broad, linear, obtuse, uniformly bright 

 yellow, shining on the inner, dull on the outer surface. Stamens 

 numerous, diffused and lax; filaments and anthers yellow, shining 

 on the inner full on the outer surface, ^tamens numerous, diffused 

 and lax; filaments and anthers yellov;. Stigmas 10, about 2 lines 

 long, spreading, rather slender, plumose, white. Capsule about 

 3^-4 lines in diameter, flattish on the top, with 10 valves end 

 cells; valves with 2 diverging, expa nding-keels, v;ith their wings 

 reduced to membranous avm-like points; cells roofed with membranous 

 cell-wings and the opening nearly closed by a large tubercle. 



