the back. After s ceriod of rest these were followed by p pair 

 of elongated-deltoid acute lesves li-2 inches long, 6-0 lines bro- 

 ad, and ?-4 lines thick (nearly as in 5'ig, 21), free nearly to the 

 base, -flat on the face and keeled on the back, having their basal 

 p!=;rt enclosed in the skin formed by the withered sheath of the 

 ©receding pair. This third tsair probably corresponds in sequence 

 with the sub-orbicular pair upon the imported plant. If kept 

 watered, the plant grows as represented at Fig. 21 but if given 

 dry treatment and allov/ed to rest, it assumes the forms represented 

 in^Figis. 2g and 83. 



All the leaves are smooth, glabrous, sub-glaucous-green, or 

 greyish-green, more or less tinted with purple when exposed to full 

 sunlight, dotted (chiefly on the b^ck) with darker green. Flowers 

 solitary, terminal. Pedicels 2f-2t inches long and about It line 

 thick, terete, smooth, glabrous, green, arising from between a pair 

 of leaves similar to those of the resting stage but united for only 

 about half their lengtl'. '^p.ljx unequally 5-lobed; lobes spreading, 

 two of them 7-B lines long end the other three 5-6 lines long, 

 linepr-lanceolate or deltoid-lanceolate, from en ovate base 3|--4 

 lines broad, acu^e, keeled on the back, smooth and glabrous, the 

 saucer-shafed ovary-part 6^ lines in diameter and Sg lines deep, 

 and other with the base of the lobes green, the upper pert of the 

 lobes dull slaty-purr>le. Corolla 2 inches in diameter, opening 

 in the morning and closing at sunset, or earlier if the temperature 

 is insufficient, and lasting for about two weeks. Petals numerous, 

 in 4 or 5 loosely imbricating series, 9-10 lines long, ^-4; line 

 broad, linear, obtuse, clear yellov.-, not shining, ^tamens very 

 numerous, surrounded by about one series of filiform staminodes; 

 for the first nine or ten days all are connivent in a cone and con- 

 ceal the stigmas, afterv/ards separating and standing erect around 

 the stigmas, 3-5 lines long, the inner being much shorter than the 

 outer; staminodes and filaments (which are bearded at the base) 

 yellow like the petals; anthers somewhat orange-yellow, ^tigme.s 

 14-15, about 1-|- line long and shorter than the stamens, subulete, 

 plumose, acute, nale yellov/ish connivent until the pollen is shed, 

 then ascending-srreading with recurved tips, but very crov;ded. 

 Ovary partly superior, very convex on the top, with 14-15 cells. 

 Capsule, when closed, 6-8 lines in diameter and ':-4 lines in depth, 

 flattened on the top, with about 14-15 valves and cells, light 

 brown; when expanded and the valves reflexed 9-11 lines in diame- 

 ter; valves about ? lines long and 1 line broad at the base, some- 

 what hatchet-shaped at the apex in side view, pallid; expanding- 

 keels contiguous at the base, diverging above, toothed along the 

 edges, dark brown, ending in linear, sub -membranous, paler points 

 extending nearly to the tips of the valves, upcurved and obliquely 

 truncate at their tips, and with rather narrow membranous, brownish, 

 marginal v;ings at the basal half; cells very acutely roofed with 

 rather stiff, light brovmish cell-wings turned beck at the opening 

 like the mouth of a trumpet, and the opening nearly closed by a 

 large pallid tubercle. Seeds ^ line long, ovoid, smooth, brown. 



Namecualand: Locality and collector unknown. 



I received an old plant of this remarkable species early in 

 1920 from I'rs. Ooree of Ilford, a few plants having been sent to 

 her husband from South Africa, but arriving after his death. A 

 photograph of this plant taken by my daughter is represented by 

 Fig. 20. Fig, 21 is from a photograph of the plant as cultivated at 

 Edinburgh Botanic Gerden, kindly sent to me by its ^"^egius lieeper, 

 Professor ^'K V/. Smith; and Figs. 2 and 23, represent the plant 



