212 ing to a note on the drawing of the type plent at Kew, "found it 

 growing on the heights near 3ea Koe ^^iver," I do not find this 

 river marked on modern mens. The note further states that "The 

 smell variety (B, duplominus p, 88) mentioned by Haworth in his 



213 Sutirementum, proved afterwards to be precisely the same with 

 Burchell's plant," Prince -Albert -division* Near -Abrahams' 

 Kraal, Mrs. D, van der Bijl. 



J'ig. 105 is from a photograph taken in '^outh -"-frica by ^*-r. T, 

 N. Leslie, and correctly represents the plant described by i^av/orth 

 as M. magniT>unctatum, according to a fine coloured drawing of the 

 tyne ^reserved at Kew. There ere, hov:ever, other plants in culti- 

 vation v'ith narrower and more pointed leaves that pass under tis 

 name, which I have had had an op'^ortunity of comparing with this 

 (the true M. magnipunctptum. Haw.), when in flower, to note if 

 any difference of a specific nature can be found in their flowers. 



I am informed by ^rs. van der Biji that this plant is eaten 

 by tortoises and is knovm as "Tortoise-food" or "schildpad kost," 

 of the IHitch farmers. Dr. I^Iuir also informes me that various 

 species of Glottiphyllum and some other genera are eaten by Tor- 

 toises and known, by the same name. 



2. P, sororia , N, E, Br» — Plant forming chumps 2-4 inches 

 high with short, branching stents 2-4 lines t ick. i'eaves 4-6 to 

 a growth under cultivation, nrobably only 2-4 under natural condi- 

 tions, ascending or the outer spreading, very stout, li-2^ inches 

 long 5-7 lines broad, 4-6 lines thick at the base and 4^-6-^ lines 

 thick near the apex, straight or occasionally slightly incurved and 

 often curved to one side, flat or slightly convex on the upper 

 side, rounded on the back at the base and obtusely keeled at the 

 unper nart, viewed fron above with nearly parallel sides or slight- 

 ly widened utiwards to the middle or for three-fourths of their 

 length then tanering to a bluntly pointed apex, and in side view 

 usually slightly thicker near the apex than at the base, glabrous, 

 dull green, densely and const) icuously marked with dark green, 

 slightly prominent dots all over, -"^eduncle 1-flowered, 9 lines 

 long, 2-2^ lines thick at the base, thickening upv/ards, terete, 

 with tvro bracts 3-9 lines long at its very base, light green, 

 sprinkled with some slightly darker green dots. Calyx 6-lobed; 

 lobes subeoual 5-6 lines long and 2i-3 lines broad, ovate, acute or 

 obtuse, with a short dorsal point near the apex, some of them with 

 membranous margins, green or nurnlisb-tinted, dotted with darker 

 green. Corolla 2-2i inches in diameter, opening late in the after- 

 noon; petals more than 100, in 4-5 series, the outer about l-ls 

 inch long, the inner shorter, |--4-lines broad, linear, acute or 

 obtuse or some of them notched at the apex, or of a rich yellov; 

 and slightly shinine on the inner face, whitish and tinted with 

 rose on the back. Stamens very numerous, at first erect, becom- 

 ing erectly-spreading, somewhat in a circle, so as to leave a cen- 

 tral snace in which the base of the stigmas can be seen; filaments 

 yellow above, whitish at the base; anthers deep yellow, -^tyle 

 none; stigmas 10-14, arising from the stout conical grooved top 

 of the ovary, 5 lines long, filiform, much longer than the stamens, 

 radiately spreading at the base, then erect, shortly plumose on 

 the inner side, eireenish-yel "low, naler than th^ others. 



I-^esembryanthemum sororixim, , N. S, bj.^ in *'ourn. Linn, ^oc, 

 Bot.., vol XLV, p. 72 (1920). 



South Africa', locality and collector unknovm. 



Described from a living plant sent to me by i>r. ^\ H. ^odier 



