32 forms come from the same place. 



C. flavum, N. E, Bp, — Growths 4-7 lines high and 3-6 lines 

 in diameter, ohconic, circular or elliptic in outline viewed from 

 above, convex on the top. with a slight notch at the orifice on 

 the larger growths only Ityre E, ) ; orifice 1-2 lines long, slight- 

 ly depressed, not ganing: surface smooth, glabrous, greyish-green, 

 purplish on the sides, with the orifice outlined by a thick, dark 



freen line end with some (not very numerous) separate dark green 

 ots scattered over the top. ^aljx 5-lobed; tube (but not th^ 

 ovary) exserted, about 3 lines long, pale greenish; lobes 1-li 

 line long, oblong, obtuse or subacute, green or perhans reddish in 

 full sunshine, pellucid-dotted. Corolla 6-7 lines in dieiaeter, 

 exDandini? in the morning in bright sunshine, closing at the latter 

 part of the afternoon, not scented; tube finally about if line 

 longer than the entire calyx, pale yellowish; petals about 55 in 

 about 2 series, 3-3i lines long^-2/3 line long, linear, obtuse and 

 slightly notched at the apex, bright golden yellow, shining. 

 Staminodes none. Stamens about as many as the petals, in 2-3 

 series, all collected together at the mouth of the corolla tube 

 and more or less exserted from it; filaments yellov/ at the upper 



5 art; anth rs of the same yellov/ as the petals. Style 4 lines 

 ong nearly as long ss the stamens, slender, v.dth 4 minute stigmas 

 i-line long at the top, yellovash at the upper part, greenish be- 

 low. Capsule v'hen closed about 2 lineq in diametei;", obconic , flat 

 on the ton, with 5 valves and cells, -^eeds about i-line long, 

 smooth, nele brown. 



Little Namaaualand, on shale rock, near Steinkopf , Marloth 

 6904, Meyer (I-^rloth 6319). 



Described from a living plant kindly sent to me by Dp. R. 

 Harloth. It is the first species 1 have seen of the smell ovconic 

 tyrie thet has bright yellow flowers opening in the morning in 

 sunshine. 



C. hians, N. E, Br.-- Growths they are first fter importation 

 2-4i lines high, 2-4 lines broad, lt-3 lines thick, slightly com- 

 pressed obovoid or obconic, very shortly 2-lobed from a very gaping 

 notch ^-1 line deer>, and f-lS line wide at the top (type somewhat 

 as at B,); lobes slightly keeled on the top, rounded into the back 

 in side view; surface smooth, minutely puberulous and somewhat vel- 

 vety to the touch, light green, without dots, but the keel of the 

 lobes becoming reddish and the notch distinctly outlined with a 

 darker green or perhaps reddish line when exposed to full sunlight. 

 Flov/ers not seen. 



Little Namaoualend: Locally frequent at Lekkersing, in the 

 Richtersveld, ?.Iarloth 6915, 6928", 6929. 



Described from living plants received from ^r. I^'ierloth, Its 

 small size, puberulous surface, faping orifice and absence of mark- 

 ings clearly distinguish this from ell other species. 



C. kubusanum, N, E, Br, — Grov/ths 2-3 lines high and 2-3-| 

 lines in diemeter, shortly obconic, circular in outline viev;ed from 

 above, and nearly flat on the top or very slightly depressed at the 

 centre (type nearly like F, ) ; invested in friable, greyish sheaths; 

 orifice l--line long; surface smooth, glabrous, of a rather rark 

 dull grey-green, marked with humerous separate scattered dots of 

 darker areen on the top and the orifice outlined by a dark line. 

 Flowers not seen. 



Little KamaaualandJ At ^^ubus, in the -"^ichtersveld, %rloth 



6920. 



