9 evidently a more irudimentery development of the erect, awn-like 

 points on the roof of the cells of the capsule of C, ^^rlothii. 



Fig, 5 is from a phot^raph of an imported plant in a resting 

 condition, about three- fourths natural size, which has been kindly 

 sent to me by Mr, Franz de ^aet. 



N, E, Brown. 

 (To be contin\ied.) 



MESmiBRYANTHM^iULI . 



Gard. Chron. HI. 80 : 35. 1926. 



(Continued from page 9.) 



8.— CHEIRIDOPSIS, N. E. Br. 



35 C. Pearsoni, N. E. Br.— -Steraless, tufted, l|-2 inches high 

 including the flov/ers. •'-■eaves 1-2 pairs to a growth, the sheath 

 part 3-5 lines long and their free Dart 'in the dried specimen) 

 8-15 lines long, and 1^-2^ lines broad and thick, flat above, 

 keeled on the back, of nearly equal thickness throughout, acute 

 or ounded into an acute apex in side viev;, glabrous, dotted all 

 over on the sides. I'edicel 5-9 lines long, scarcely 1 line thick, 

 bractless, glabrous. Calyx 5-lobed, glabrous; ovary-part hemispher- 

 ical, 3^-4 lines in diameter; lobes 1-1-2^ lines long, all broadly 

 ovate, obtuse or acute, three of them v/ith membranous margins. 

 Corolla about li inch in diameter, petals numerous, 6-7 lines long, 

 linear, light yellow or yellowish with a pinkish tinge. Stamens 

 numerous, erect, about 2 lines long, apparently yellow. Stigma 7-8, 

 about 1 line long, subulate, uni-'ed at the base into a slight cup. 

 Fruit not seen. 



Little ^msqualand: Khamiesberg region, growing in wet sand in 

 Neras Ravine, ^earson 6345, and in damp grown at Bailey's ^lekte, 

 Pearson 6440, 



This has been distributed as being I^'esembryanthenum robustum, 

 Hav;. , but that is a very different and much stouter plant. 



C. pecullaris, N. E. Br, (Figs. 20,21,22, and 23).— Stemless, 

 forming with age clumps of several growths (7 on the only plant 

 seen). Root of old plants about 3^- 7 lines thick, descending dee- 

 ply into the ground. Each growth, as seen on a newly imported 

 plant in a state of rest (Fig. 20 5 consisting of two erect leaves, 

 •free nearly to their base, with their flat faces closely applied 

 to one another, forming a compressed, orbicular-ovate body 10-15 

 lines longs, about the same in breadth and 5-S lines thick, en- 

 closed in a semi-transparent skin vthe dried sheath of a previous 

 Tjair of leaves) of a somewhat parchment-like texture; these leaves 

 are flat on their applied surfaces, convex and faintly keeled at 

 the back, rounded at the apex, with a minute apiculus, glabrous, 

 pale, greyish-green or sub-glaucous-green, with or without a pur- 

 plish tint, and indistinctly dotted with darker green. 



Under cultivation in ^ngland, when rooted, the two leaves of 

 each grov;th separate and spread out flat. Betv/een them arises a 

 pair of shorter leaves united for half or more than half of their 

 lensth, with their short tips ascending or spreading, deltoid- 

 ovete, subacute, flat above, kee^Led on the back. 1'hese were succ- 

 eeded by a much larger pair 1^-2^ inch long, united for half their 

 length into a sub-cylindric body 8-9 lines thick, with the free 

 tips ascending-sr^^eading, deltoid, subacute, flat above, keeled on 



