MESmiBRYANTHELIUM . 

 Gprd. Chron. HI. 82: 390, 1927. 

 (Continued frora page 370 ) 



390 1, 0. arrectum, N, E, Br., in The Gardeners' Chronicle, 1922, 

 Vol. L:ca:i, p. 9, Fig. 5. (Fies. 178 and 179).— Leaves 2-3 (rarely 

 4) ppirs to p growth, with the pairs crossing one another obliquely, 

 suberect or ascending-spreeding, usually more or less curved, 2-3 

 inches long, 3-|-5 lines broad near the base and 3-4 lines thick, 

 more or less flattened on the urper or inner face, or semiterete, or 

 .more or less trigonous, usually v/ithout but sometimes v^ith a keel 

 on the back, acute or subobtuse, smooth, glabrous, light green, 

 not at all glaucous nor dotted. Flowers subsessile or on oedicels 

 1-2 lines long and 1| line thick. Calyx 4-lobed; lobes 3-4^ lines 

 long and as much in breadth, broadly ovate, obtuse, all with membra- 

 nous margins. Corolla 2-3 inches in diameter, cup-shaped, expending 

 in sunshine, scentless; petals about 50, in one series, lex, 12-16 

 lines long, about 1 line broad, linear, very obtuse or subtruncate 

 and notched at the apex, bright yellow on both sides. Stamens erectly 

 spreading in a ring; filaments r>ele yellow; anthers darker yellow. 

 Stigmas 6-8, widely spreading, f bout 2 lines long, plumose, acute, 

 pale yellowish-green. Capsule sub-globose, v/ith a high dome-like 

 top, 3-5 lines in diameter, with 7-8 valves and cells, 



Svrellendam I^ivision: At Sevenfontein, Pole Svans, 6,922, 

 Ladisr-ith division J Near Adams ^raal, 1,400 feet pbove se^i level, 

 t-uir 3,904, and nar Plathuis, Muir 3,909. 



Fig. 178 is from a photograph taken in -^outh --frica by Dr. 

 Pole 5v8ns of the plant sent to me as it grew there^ and -^''ig. 179 

 (reproduced from The Gardeners^ Chronicle, "Vol. K'^^il, p. 9) repre- 

 sents the very same plant after I had cultivated it for several 

 months, from a photograph taken by my daughter. These tvra figures 

 well illustrate the difference that sometimes occurs between these 

 plants as they are seen in a state of rest under natural conditions 

 and as they are seen in this country under cultivation. 



2. G. difforme, N. E. 3^., in The Cprdeners' Chronicle, 1922, 

 Vol. L'OCI, p. 22.— Crowth or branches more or less decumbent, with 

 about 3 t)airs of leaves to each and the pairs obliquely crossing one 

 another. Leaves mostly 1+-3 inches long, sometimes longer, i-g inch 

 broad, semiterete, flat or slightly concave on the face, very convex 

 on the back, and usually with, but sometimes without, a huiup or tooth 

 on each margin above the middle, the longer leaf of each pair with the 

 erex produced beyond the flat face into a compressed acute or blunt 

 point, and the smaller leaf simply acute or obtuse, deep green, pel- 

 lucid-dotted; according to Hgworth, some of the leaves have a slight 

 twist from above the middle, and some of them are tipped v/ith a soft, 

 straight, curved or hooked bristle or apiculus. Pedicel very short, 

 4_ang"led thickened upwards and indistinguishably passing into the 

 calyx-tube, v.hich together vvith the pedicel is represented in the 

 figures as about 9-12 lines long. Cgiyx irregularly 4-engled, 4- 

 lobed, the larger lobes shernly keeled, the smaller membranous. Co- 

 rolla 2-2i inches in diarater; netals lax, in about 1 series, 9-10 

 lines long, ^- 2/3 line long, yellow. 



Mesembryanthemum difforme, Linn. St.. Pi.^ ed. 1, p. 487, partly 

 as to M. foliis difformibns, Dillen. Hort. Eith. p. 252,^ t. 194, f. 

 242 (not 241), and Kg^. ^bs., p. 169 (l795) not of Saim Dyck nor 



