32 Described from a living plant kindly sent to me by Dr. Pole 



Evans. This is a bright looking little SDecles, quite distinct 

 from any other I have seen. 



C. Comptonii. N. E, By. i^i^. 20).-- Grov.ths very small, as 

 received 2 lines nigh and 1-24 lines in diameter, but will probably 

 become larger under cultivation; obconic , convexly-subtruncate at 

 the top, which is curcular or elliptic in outline and has a faint 

 keel across it transverse to the orifice, which is 41-2/3 line long, 

 and distinctly depressed at each end; surface glabrous and slightly 

 irregular from the markings being faintly elevated, greyish green 

 with a faint bro'.vnish tint, with a horse-shore-shaped mark or very 

 dark green at each end of the orifice and a series os small dark 

 green dots and markings around the margin of the top. Flowers not 

 seen. 



1^'Ialmesbury Division : Near Nieuwoudtville, Gompton. 



For this minute but very distinct species ^ am indebted to 

 Professor R. H. Compton, the Director of Mrstenbosch ^otanic 

 Gardens, after whom I have named it. -Although a large genus, the 

 species are grouped into few types, many kinds having a simicrity 

 in general appearance, but this very interesting species agrees with 

 none of them, being quite distinct from all that are knov/n to me, 

 and therefore, although very small, by its great distinctness all 

 the more suitable to bear tne name of its energetic discoverer. 



C. diversum, ^K S, ^t,~- Grov/ths as developed the first year 

 after importation about 6 lines high, 4-5i- lines broad and 3|-5 

 lines thick, slightly compressed, cuneately obcordate, 2-lobed at 

 the ton, v;ith the notch 1-2 lines deep and the lobes more or less 

 closed together at their lower half, at least in the young state 

 of the growth; lobes rounded at the top in side of the growth; 

 lobes rounded at the top in side view, somewhat as in type P, 

 somewhat compressed laterally into an obtusely-rounded keel; sur- 

 face smooth, glabrous, light green, with a small and slightly darker 

 patch at the base of the notch, and thinly sprinkled all over with 

 very smal^ , darker green, separate dots, but v/ithout a dark line 

 along the keel of the lobes or eround the lips of the orifice. 

 Flovrers not seen. 



Little Nemeoueland! near a^enous, in the Richtersveld, ^rloth 

 6906. 



C. ectypum, N. E, Br, ^ in The Gardeners' "-"hronicle, 1925, vo-1. 

 LXXVIIIj p, 468, At the place auoted, the ■ escription of the flower 

 was made from a dried flower sent to me by Dr. ^'^rloth, and the colour 

 appeared to be magenta, as there described. My plant of ^-^arloth 

 6365B, having novr flowered, I find that the petals are not magenta, 

 but of a delicate rose-pink, and there are four series of stamens 

 and the style is 5^-6 lines long, instead of being as described, 

 ^''"^hether this species varies to this extent, or whether some mistake 

 vras made in the flower sent to me, ^ do not know; flowers developed 

 in future may determine. 



C. Brownii, Tischer in MoHer's Deutsche Ggrtner-^eitung, July 

 21, 1926, p. 257 is, in my opinion, a mere form of G, ectypum that 

 is more truncate at the top and has very few more lines upon it; 

 ther is no other difference. Both plants v;ere collected at the 

 eame locality, and vrere both sent by Dr. i^arloth. I find that sever- 

 al species vary much in shape and markings so that without other 

 evidence I do not regard them of specific importance when the various 



