(at least, under cultivation with me) they diverge from the base 

 and more or less recurve,. Flower solitary, terminal, with a new 

 grov:th on each side of its base, Pedicel 6-10 lines long, li- 

 line thick at the unr>er part, slightly narrovving tov;ards the base, 

 angular and together with the calyx velvety-nuberulous like the 

 leaves. Calyx subequelly 6-lobed; lobes 2^-3 lines long and li- 

 1^ line broad, ovate, subacute or obtuse, keeled on the back two 

 of them with membranous margins. Corolla nparently about 8-9 lines 

 in diaraet'^r; netals numerous, free^ in about 2 series, 3-3^ lines 

 long, 1/2-1 line broad, cunetely linear, obtuse, apparently mag- 

 enta ("red" according to ^r. I^uir). ^tanens numerous, erect, about 

 1^ line long, white; ^filaments hairy at the base, ^tigmas 6, con- 

 nivent erect, about i-line long, subulate acute. Fruit not seen. 



Mesembrventheraiim angulipes, L. Bolus in -"-nnals of the Bolus 

 Herb., vol.I^, n. 2 (l925). 



Riversdale Division: In the i^lein Karoo, at 1,000-1,300 feet 

 above sea-level, flowering in September and *-'ctober. I^%ir, 3898. 



This interesting species at first sight is quite unlike the 

 other knoT^'n members of the genus Gibbaeum on account of the leaves 

 being free for a great part of their length, and divergent v.'hen 

 growing, but its flov/ers and pubescence demonstrate that it belongs 

 to this genus. It was discovered by i>r. ^. ^"-uir in 1923 and sent 

 to Mrs. Bolus, who described it_ as above-quoted, but without indi- 

 cating its true affinity. Dr. ^"^^iuir informs me that in South -fc-frica 

 "It is a silvery, often depressed, somewhat scrubby undershrub, 

 often v/ith decumbnet or spreading branches, and grows on flats and 

 hillsides from 1,000-1,300 feet. It occurs partly on the quartz fields 

 and nartly on the adjoining Bokkeveld shales in the Klein Karoo, 

 flowering coniously in September and October. 



From Dr. I^uir's account it would appear that it attains to 

 the ^eight of an undershrub in South Africa; with me, hov/ever, the 

 plant of it I received from Dr. Muir is prostrate, and only attains 

 a height of about 2 inches above the groud. In this country also, 

 as the etrowth takes r>lace in the colder and more sunless part of 

 the year, two or even three pairs of leaves are present at the ssjne 

 time on the growths, as there is no sun heat to dry up the old 

 leaves. 



G. dispar, N. E, Bp. in The hardener's Chronicle, 1926, vol. 

 LXXIX, t). 215, Fig. 105B. — Pedicel 1-2 lines long. Calyx sub- 

 eaually 6-lobed, lobes about 2-| lines long, two of them keeled and 

 green, the other four flat, broadly oblong and with membranous 

 margins, rounded at the anex. Corolla 12-13 lines in diameter, fully 

 open from 10.30 in the morning, according to Dr. I^Iuir; petals in 

 one series, about 5-5^ lines long and ^-t line broad, linear, ob- 

 tuse, intense pink, with the median line very feint or absent 

 (ex i--uir) . Stamens numerous, 2-2g lines long, filaments not bairy 

 at the base, white; anthers yellow. Stigmas 6, finally 2i lines long, 

 erect, filiform-subulate. Ovary flattish at the top. 



This completes our present knovvledge of this plant, the above 

 description being made from flov/ers of the type, i-^uir 3797; snet 

 to me by Dr. %ir. 



G. geminum, N. S. Br. in The Gardeners' ''hronicle^ 1922, vol. 

 LXXI, p. 129, Fig. 64f. and vol. L:CCIX, p. 215.— Dr. --iuir informs 

 me that this snecies "forms mats on carpets up to several feet 

 in diameter, and is found most commonly on the flats in clayey soil, 

 also often in brackish places. Less commonly in gravelly places 

 on the shales away from the ouartz fields." 



