212 then not glaucous-green. 3 



3, — Leaves mostly 2^-Za inches long, distinctly recurved 



et the unper part, tapering at the apical part to an 

 acute point, distinctly concave on the face, 3, compacta 



Leaves l4-2f inches long, not or hurt slightly recurved 

 and mostly not tapering to an acute point, flat or but 

 slightly concave on the face. 4 



4, — Leaves with conspicuous and slightly prominent dots; 



flowers 2-24 inches in diameter on ^eduncles about 3/4- 

 inch long. 2, sororia 



Leaves with small and not very conspicuous dots that are 

 not prominent; flowe-^s Ig-l* inch in diameter, sessile. 



4. optata» 



1. P. ma gni punctata, N. E. Bj,. (-^'ig. 105) .-♦*Plant forming 

 clumiDS 3-4 inches hig^. Leaves normally in 1-2 pairs to a growth, 

 very stout, ascending-spreading, united for 4-6 lines at the base, 

 varying in size on different plants, li-3 lines long, 6^-11 lines 

 broad at the base, enlarging to 9-13 lines broad a little above 

 the middle, 5-9 lines thick at the apex, flat or faintly convex or 

 concave on the face and straight or very slightly recurved, base, 

 bluntly keeled and trigonous with convex faces or triquetrous v;ith 

 convex faces at the apical part, obtuse at the apex in front and 

 side views, surface glabrous, slightly harsh to the touch, variably 

 light green, greyish green or more or less tinted with brownish, 

 varying from slightly to very glaucous, everywhere covered with 

 larPte dark green or blackish dots, which are slightly prominent 

 on some slants and not so on others, ^lowers olitary, terminal, 

 auite sessile, bibracteate. Calyx uneoually 6-7-lobes; lobes 4-7 

 lines long, ovate, acute or obtuse, some with membranous margins, 

 Corolla 2-2* inches in diameter, opening in the afternoon and 

 closing about 6 p.m.; petals numerous, in about 4 series, 7-12 

 lines long, i-i ^ ine broad, linear, obtuse and more or less bluntly 

 toothed at the apex, bright yellow, "^tamens erectly spreading, at 

 first forming a somewhat funnel-shaped mass, becoming more spreadin' 

 and looser, 31^-4 lines long; filaments and anthers orange-yellow. 

 Stigmas 9-12, finally about as long as the stamens and four lines 

 long, filiform, subplximose on the inner side, orange- yellow, suberect, 

 seated on the conical top of the ovary, v.hich is 9-12 celled. 

 Capsule, v;hen closed, 6-7 lines in diameter, somewhat hemispherical, 

 flattened at the top, grey, dotted; when expanded well about an 

 inch in diameter, mostly with 10-12 valves and cells, sometimes 

 fewer; structure as described for the genus, the expand ing-keels 

 being avm-'Dointed; the v.-hole of the interior is in effect of a 

 dark brovm, the cells being rather brighter than the rest and some 

 what orange-brown, and the ex|)8nd ing-keels blackish. Seeds not 

 numerous in each cell, about t line long, compressed-ovoid, ponted 

 at one end, minutely tubercu?^ te, brovm. 



-■'esembryanthemum ^-agr^ iT5unct8tum, Hew,, ^unpl. Pi. ^ucc, p. 87 

 (1819), and ^ev. Pi. Succ.,*ii. 86; Sender in Fl. Cgp. vol. II, 

 P. 396; Berger, I-esemb. p. 264; 2eitschr, f. ^ukkul., vol. II, p. 

 160. 



Laingsburg divisions Near ^«t Jesf ontein, I^illans, -^ustin, 

 Frith, Originally discovered in this region by Bowie, who, accord- 



