As the two snecies of this genus can scarcely be distinguished 

 by their leaves, and as they have nov/ both flowered in Europe, the 

 follov.'ing brief descriptions of their flowers may be useful for 

 discriminating them until more complete descriptions can be given 

 at a later date. 



F. aursntiaca, N. E, Bp, — Corolla 2i-3 inches in diameter; 

 petals about 5^^, in one series, 12-15 lines long, and 1 line broad, 

 obtuse, of a sonevrhat orange-yellcrA- v;ith-a pinkish tinge on the 

 back; shining. Stigmas very nlumose, white. 



This beautiful s^iecies is the type of the genus. 



F. rhopalophylla N. E. Bj., — Corolla li-l» inch in diam- 

 eter; petals about 35, in one series, 8-9 lines long, ^-1 line 

 broad," obtusely pointed, white, ^tigmas filiform, acute, not plu- 

 mose, T)ple yellovish-green. — i'iesembryanthemum rhopalophyllum, 

 Schlect and ^iels in ^chultze, -^us ^^iameland und I'^alahari p. 83, 

 with fig. and p. 692; i'larloth, Flora of South Africa, Vol. 1, p. 

 207, t. 52. 



Both srecies are natives of Namscu aland. 



N. E» Brov;n 

 (To be continued.) 



I.ffESMBRYAimiEr,roiif . 

 Gard. Ghron. HI. 82: 290. 1927, 

 (Continued from p. 263.) 



12 . —GLOTTIPH XLUlv!, HAW. 



Very dwarf succulent perennials branching close to the ground. 

 Leaves 4 or more to a branch or division of the plant, opposite; 

 crowded or very closely placed, usually three to several times as 

 long as broad, but in a fev; species occasionally not much longer 

 than broad under natural conditions, those of each pair subenual or 

 uneaual in size, and usually with the terminal part of one leaf 

 different in shape from that of the leaf opposed to it, either arr- 

 anged in two row s or the alternating pairs crossing one another; 

 thick, soft and pulpy in substance, green, rarely whiths -green or 

 brownish tinted, without dots, or in some species pellucid-dotted. 



Flov>'ers solitary (see '^ig. 113, shov.dng structure) lateral, 

 larce, brectless. Calyx 4 (in one doubtful snecies, 5)-lobed dovvn to 

 its union v/ith the ovary, often angular, -fetals numerous, free or 

 sliffhtly united at the base, cuneately linear. Stamens numerous, 

 erect, no staminodes. Stigjnas 7-11, radiating or ascending, stout, 

 plumose; style none. Ovary partly superior, convex or flattish on 

 "the top, 7-11 celled; placentas dov/n the centre of the outer wall 

 of the cells. 



Capsule convex or flattish-convex on the top, vath 7-11 valves 

 and cells; each valve vdth a pair of expanding keels half as long 

 as itself, ending in fine, avm-like points, without marginal v.ings; 

 cells roofed vdth rigid cell-wings and their opening nearly closed 

 by a larce tubercle. Seeds small, ovoid, v/ith a small nij^ple at 

 one end.-- Haworth, ^dv. Pi. Succ, p. 103 (l82l), and i'l.-i. Brown 

 in The hardeners* Chronicle, 1921, Vol. l^'-, p. 311. 



Species 26 or more, so far as known all natives of the souten- 

 most '^art of Souther -"-frica, between Cape and -^Iben 7;- .divisions, ex- 

 tending inland so far north as ^rince -n-lber division. The type 



