9 of the capsules, as is testified by the completely or partially 

 empty cells I find in many of the capsules, indeed, in almost all 

 those that shoxv evidence of having once opened on the various species 

 I have examined. 



C, I'eyeri , N. E. Bp. (Fig. 5,), — Plant scarcely an inch high as 

 imriorted, tufted or forming small clumps. G^rowths when at rest more 

 or less crowded, each consisting of an orbicular or obicularly o- 

 bovete, erect body, 4-6 lines long, 3^-5 lines broad and 1^-2- 

 lines thick, with acute edges and appearing quite entire without 

 visible orifice or fissure, and covered with a white skin having a 

 slight acute ridge dovm the centre of the apical part on each side 

 (Fig, 6A). When vegetative activity is resumed, the skin bursts, a 

 new grovrth ar>pears t'^'ig. 6 B end C) , formed of a pair of opposite 

 leaves united at their base, 5-6 lines long, 2-2i lines brosd and 

 13/4-2 lines thick at the base, dilating to S-si'lines thick at the 

 ur^per part, flat on the face and there tapering gradually from the 

 base to a subacute ppex, keeled ell dovm the back, not apiculate, 

 entire; surface mooths, glabrous except at the microscopically cil- 

 ia te edges, green or brovmish, inconspicuously (not so distinctly as 

 shown in the figure), and somev^iat thinly dotted with darker green, 

 and the dots pellucid when viewed against the light. Succeeding 

 this pair of leaves is a second pair united for most of their leng- 

 th into a solid, ellipsoid body 4-5 lines long, 3 lines broad and 

 2^ lines thick, keeled over the top and slightly and abruptly com- 

 pressed at the apex as it pinched there betvreen the finger and 

 thumb (Fig. 6 D) , coloured like the other leaves, not at all glau- 

 cous. At its base tv/o similar but smaller bodies afterv-'ards de- 

 velop. All these bodies ultimately pass to rest and become as shown 

 in Fig. 6A, Flowers not seen. Pedicels of the fruit solitary, 

 terminal 4-7 lines long, ascending or spreading horizontally with 

 the capsule abruptly upturned, each with the withered skin of a 

 pair of leaves or bracts at its base, glabrous. Cgpsule when closed 

 4-5 lines in diameter, 2 lines deep, flattened above and beneath, 

 circular in outline, glabrous, v;hite or pale brown, with 10-11 

 valves and cells; where expanded 7-8 lines in diameter; valves 

 about 2 lines long and 1* line broad, pallid, with orange-brown 

 expanding-keels, contiguous at the basal part and diverging above, 

 toothed along the edges, with awn^like points; cells acutely roofed 

 with stiff, pale brown cell-wings that are raised into a hump to- 

 wards the centre of the capsule, and the opening nearly closed by 

 a large white tubercle. Seeds many in each cell, less than ^ - 

 inch long, ovoid, acute ^t one end, smooth, light brown. 



Little Kamaoualand: Near ^teinkopf, Meyer, Marloth 6592. 

 This ver3'' distinct and remarkable species is quite unlike any 

 other known to me. Living plants of it have been sent to me by 

 Dr. R. I'i^rloth, who informs me that it was discovered by the Rev. 

 G. l-e7/-er, after whom I have named it. 



Seen only in the resting state very few would associate this 

 curious niant with C. rostrata, 0. bifida and similar plants placed 

 under this genus, for when in its withered whitish skins it might 

 be mistaken for some much compressed member of the genus Conophytum; 

 the structure of Its capsule, however, et one proclaims it to be a 

 species of CJheiridopsis, and a view of the new grov/ths that burst 

 through the white sheaths at one remove all doubt as to its affinity. 

 In having a sheath entirely closinf? the new growth it shows some 

 alliance with C. peculiaris, N, S, li-r. 



The hump on the roof of the cells formed by the cellwings is 



