213 Heeth, who received it from a friend In ^outh Africa and believed 

 that it v'as collected in the Knroo region, possibly in Geres 

 Division. 



Tbis species is allied to P. msgni punctata, but differs 

 from that species by its smaller leaves which ere marked v;lth small- 

 er leaves, which are marked with ^mailer and less conspicuous dots, 

 and by its distinct peduncle, the flowers of P. megniDunctata 

 beinff sessile, ?rom P. optata it differs by its larger leaves 

 whic-" are more distinctly triangular in transverse section, and by 

 the lerfer and distinctl:;- pedunculate flov/ers. 



The above is copied from my original description, and compri- 

 ses all that I know about this species. 



N. 2. Brown 

 (To be continued.) 



MESMBRYANTHEI^njlI, 

 Card. Chron. HI. 80: 228. 1926. 

 (Continued from page 213). 



XI,— PUl-iCTILLARIi^i, N. E. Br. 



22R 3. P. compacta, I^. ^. Br.-- ^eaves about two pairs to a 

 grov.'th, spreading, slightly recurved at the apex, i-^-3 lines 

 long, 4-5 lines broad and thick at the base, dilated to 5-8 lines 

 broad end 5-7 lines thick below the apex, tne basal part flat on 

 the upper side and rounded on the back, and the upper part concave- 

 ly channelled on the unper side and bluntly keeled on the back, 

 tapering from 6-9 lines below the apex to an acute point; surface 

 glabrous, dull green or brownish-green, with conspicuous, slightly 

 prominent dots, slightly shining, slightly glaucous on the young 

 leaves, scarcely so on the older ones, ^lower subsessile or on a 

 short pedicel 3-4 lines long, vath a pair of bracts at its base. 

 ^el^TT subeoually 6-lobed, nrominetly dotted; ovary part hemisp^er- 

 ically; lobes about 4 lines long, four of them with membranous 

 margins. Cor'^lla 2 inches or more in diameter; opening in the 

 morning, scentless; petals in about 3 series, 12-13 lines long, 

 ■^-1 lines broad, linear, acute, yellow, passing into white at the 

 base. Stamens very numerous, erect, ^ebout 4 lines long; filaments 

 yellow; anthers of a paler yellow, Stigmas about 16, erect, subu- 

 late, as long as the stamens, greenish-yellow. 



Mesembryanthenjum compactum. Ait. ^ort. ^ew. ed. 1, vol. H, 

 p. 19(1789); Hrw. "^ynop. "^1. ^ucc. p. 211. ^i*^. nobile, Hgw. in 

 I'hil. ffeg., 1823, p. 381; '^elm ^yck, ^^esemb. 4, f. 1; ^onder in 

 Fl. Cap., vol. II, pi 396; ^erger, i«iesemb._, p, 264 and 263, f, 56, 

 which is copied from that of ^giin I^yck. ^^, magnipunctatum var. 

 effine, Hav/. Rpv. Pi. S^cc. p. 8'', 



South Africa I precise locality unknown. 



This species has been long cultivated in gardens as ^''^semby- 

 enthemum nobile, and is correctly as named, but it appears to be 

 also undoubtedly the M, compactum, ■'^iton, end as the latter name is 

 mucher the older it must take precedence and therefore I have here 

 restored it. Haworth states that he never sav; this species, and 

 pieces it under his section ^ostrata (which I have separated as a 

 genus — Cheiridipsis) , but in this he •was undoubtedly wrong. 



4. P. optata, N. E. Br. ^early stemless, branching at the 

 base and forming a clump 2-Si inches high,. I-eaves 2-4 to a growth, 

 more or less spreading, equal 1-2 inches long 3|-6 lines broad and 

 3i-5| lines thick, and of nearly equal breadth and thicknes through- 



