70 markings, roupher top end different colouration, and probably when 

 flowers of it are knovm they also will differ, for in my opinion 

 it is certainly not a mere variety of that plant. 



N. E. Brov.'n 

 (To be continued. ) 



MESEMBRYANTHSMUI,! 

 Gard. Chron. HI. 8i: 84. 1987. 

 C^ontinued from page 70.) 



LITHOPS, 



84 L. bella, N.E.Bj.., in The ^ardeners * ''hronicle 1922, v. 

 LXXI, p, 80 (Fig, 44). To this species must now be added as a 

 synonym L. ^ericheana, Winter and ^chwantes, which I had not seen 

 when 1 described it in The hardeners' Chronicle, 1926, vol. 

 LXXrX, X}, 102, but as I now have plants of ^, ^-ericheana in culti- 

 vation, I find it to be identical with the previously described 

 L. bella. -^ good figure of L, •^ericheana vms published in the 

 Zeitschrift f. Sukkulentenkunde, December, 1925, p, 133, which 

 exactly represents L. bella. I have not seen this figure when 

 my description of L, Lericheana wa published in February, 1926^, 

 or I should then h-^ve quoted it, but now, by the courtesey of ^r, 

 F. "Vaupel, the Editor of the work quoted, I am here able to re- 

 produce the figure (^ig. 44) from a photograph of it, for which I 

 am indebted to Mr. C. A. Maass. 



L, Mundtii, Tischer, in Mollers -"^eutsch ''artner ^eitung, 

 September 21, 1926, p. 330, with three figures (^ig. 45). — Growths 

 15-18 lines high, 14-20 lines broad, and 10-18 lines thick, ob- 

 conic , ouite flat on the top, vrith a transverse fissure about 3 

 lines deep all across it; surface glabrous, smooth and of a light 

 violaceous tint on the sides, slightly rugose from impressed den- 

 dritic markings or branching lines on the top, Vv-hich is of a light 

 rust colour v^ith the impressed markings of a dark rust colour, 

 and v;ith numerous blackish-grey dots sprinkled among the markings. 

 Calyx 4-lobed. Corolla about 14-18 lines in diameter; petals 30-35, 

 in 2 series, orange-ye] lov,-, with the tips reddish on the back. 

 Stamens v;ith white filaments and yellov; anthers. Stigmas 6, not 

 exceeding the stamens, 



Great Namaqualand* i>^undtfarm, near ''"'itvley, in the region of 

 Gobabis, Mundt, 



This fine species is distinguished at sight from all others 

 that I have seen by the rieh rust colour of its flat top. ^ig. 45 

 is here reproduced , by the permission of ^r. ^\ ^aupel, the Editor 

 of 2eitschrift f . '^kkulentenkundc by means of a photograph kindly 

 sent to me by Mr. C. A, M^ess. 



L, pseudotruncatella var. alta, ^ischer, in ^'-oiler's •i-'eutsche 

 Gartner-Zeitung, September 21, 1926, p. 331, with fig. -^variety 

 differing from the type of being taller than broad, with the top of 

 the lobes more convex end the markings less distinct. Corolla 

 yellov;. Cansule 8-celled. 



Grerit IJamaqualandt Farm ^offnung , collector not stated. 



I have not seen this plant, but it is probably the plant 

 Dinter has mentioned in one of his v;orks as being ^^^sembryanthemum 

 truncatellum growing at Farm Hoffnung, and for which ^ quoted that 



