426 yellow; anthers bleckish; pollen whitish, ^isk annular, crenulate. 

 Stigmas 12, suberect, 2 lines longj lanceolate, acuminate, 



Mesembrvanthemum cupreum, L, ^^oius in Ann. ■'^olus Herb., vol. 

 III. p. 159 (1924). 



'V'an Rhynsdorr) divisions near ^en Khynsdorp, "'atermeyer. 



The above is translated from the original description given 

 by Mrs. Bolus. 



C. inconspicua, N. S, Br, (^ig, 218), — Growths when et rest 

 (the only state in which they have as yet been seen by me) 2^-4 

 inches high, formed of two erect or ascending leaves united at the 

 base into a solid body 9-12 lines long, 7-10 lines broad and 6-8 

 lines thick, the free part 2-3 inches long, 6-8 lines broad and 

 5-6 lines thick at the base, the flat face gradually tapering from 

 the base to an acute apex, obtusely keeled all down the back and 

 the keel and edges quite entire, not at all scabrid or cilia te under 

 a lens, in side view either subparallel for most of the length and 

 becoming acute at the apex, or the keel of one leaf slightly dil- 

 ated at the apex and less acute, surface smooth, glabrous, uniform- 

 ly glaucous-green with a faint bluish tinge, opaque, not at all 

 shingin, incons'^icuously and thickly dotted all over with very small 

 dots of a slightly darker green, easily seen iwth a lens, but very 

 indistinct to the naked eyer. Flower not seen., -^edicel of the fruit 

 2* inches long, 1^^ line thick at the base and 2* lines thick at the 

 apex, vrith a pair of small bracts at its very base. Capsule 9 

 lines in diameter when closed, flattish on the top, when expanded 

 1^ lines in diameter, with 12-13 expanding valves and cells; valves 

 reflexed, rallid; expanding-keels -parallel at the basal half, then 

 diverging, their tips ending in awn»like points which incurve and 

 cross one another over the centre of the valve. 



Van Rhynsdorp Division: Near Vgn Hhynsdorp, Mrs, E, Rood. 

 ^Although I have not seen the flowers of this species it is so 

 distinct in its foliage and large capsule from all the others that 

 are described or have been seen by me that I have no hesitation in 

 describing it ss new. There is no evidence of the somewhat pellucid 

 margin or row of pellucid dots prevalent on most of the species 

 along the edges and keel, no minute serrulation or scabridity on 

 the ericel part of the keel, and the dots seem to me more inconspi- 

 cous than they ere on its el'ties, while the fruit is larger than 

 that of any other species I have yet seen. 



N, E, Brown 

 (To be continued.) 



MESmiBRYANTIiminvI. 



Gard. Chron. HI, 80: 9, 1926) 



(Continued from p. 425, Vol. LX5LIX. ) 



8,— CHEIRIDOPSIS, N. E. Br, 



9 C. r-arlothii, N. E. Br. (Fig. 4).— Plant as imported in its 

 resting state about 1^ inch high, stemless, of numerous growths in 

 a clump. Each growth consisting of a cylindric white sheath en- 

 closing 8 nair of leaves; the sheath is 8-10 lines long and 3-3-| 

 lines in diameter, shortly silt down on one side or on opposite 

 sides at the top, end. there bearing the withered remains of two 

 short leaves, from the base of each of v;hich a slender, acute 

 ridge extends to the base, thin but rather rigid in consistence 



