53 Clanvrllliam Division". Between Gignv/illiam and Citrusdale, 

 Hiss Foote. 



I have to thank Professor R. ^^» Gon^ton for this very dis- 

 tinct species, which he informs me vies discovered by i-iiss V, J. 

 Foote, a former assistant in Kirstenhosch Botenic "harden. 



It is one of the prettiest species known to me, and is easily 

 recognised by the top of the growths being flat and covered with 

 irregularly branched and connected rather thick lines of dark 

 green or purple, according to exposure to sunshine. 



N« S. Brov/n 

 (To be continued.) 



LIESEMBRYANTHaiU^I. 



Gard. Chron. HI. 81*. 70. 1927. 



(Continued from page 53, ) 



70 Conophytum praenarvum, N. E, By, (Fig. 33) — Growths as 

 received very small, crowded, 2-3 lines long and 1-2 lines in 

 diameter, shortly obconic or obovoid, elliptic or circular in 

 outline and convex without any trace of a ridge across it at the 

 tor; orifice l/3-| line long, level with the surface and neither 

 depressed nor gari in g; surface glabrous, light green, sprinkled over 

 the top v/ith a fev; scattered dark green or nurple dots that are 

 mostly separate, but occasionaly are connected into short lines 

 and are remarkably prominent, resembling little bumps on the s\ir- 

 face when vievred sideways with a lens, 2-3 of them are grouped at 

 each end of the orifice, which also has a very slender dark green 

 line on each side of it. Flowers not seen. 



Little Namaqualandi On the Langebergen near Garies, grovj-ing 

 among or mixed with lichens on granite, ^''ferloth 12887. 



This is one of the smallest species of this genus known to me 

 and is one of the smallest of flo^'ering plants. I am indebted to 

 I3r. R. r^'-arloth for living specimens of it, from which the above 

 description was made. Its small size and the very prominent bump- 

 like dots upon it readily distin^fmish it from all other known 

 species. As a lichen vms growing mingled with the plants sent, it 

 is evidently one of the species that grow among lichens, a habitat 

 shared by other members of this genus. 



C, retusum, N. E, Bp. — Growths ^--l inch high, 3-9 lines 

 broad across the tor^ and 2-4 lines thick on their first developement 

 after importation, normelly compressed and wedge-shaped, shortly 

 two-lobed et the top, and v;hen fully developed about twice as 

 brosd across the lobes as at he base; in this form the lobes are 

 1-2 lines long and in side view are somewhat truncate with a slight 

 notch (retiiseJ at their top, bluntly keeled; in another form pro- 

 duced on the seme plant the grov/ths" are somewhat obovoid and not 

 at all v/edge-shaped, and the top of the lobes in side wiew are 

 rounded and not at all divergent or truncate; orifice 1^-2^ lines 

 long; surface smoot- glabro-us, light green v/ith a darker patch at 

 the base of the notch and some rather indistinct separate dots 

 scattered over the surface; more evident on some growths than on 

 others, while the lips of the orifice ere somewhat indistinctly 

 outlined with a dark green line or chain of dots. Fiov/ers not 

 seen. Capsule 2 lines in diameter, slightly 5-angled, shortly end 

 broadly obconic, slight convex on the top, with 5 valves and cells 

 brown; when expended 3^-4 lines in dismeter with recurved brovmish 



