Berger, 



South Africa 5 Locality unknown, In cultivation before 1732, 

 according to Alton. 



I^is snecies is unknovn to me, and the above description is 

 compiled partly from Hgyropth 's original description of it, and pertly 

 from the Oillenan fi/nire, and an original drawing of the plant in 

 the Ke\y collection. 



It seems to be similar to G, semicylindricum, but distinctly 

 differs by its short 4-8ngled pedicel. 



The tv/o figures in Dilleni^^s, Hortus ^ithp nensis, t. 194, 

 mentioned pbove, were considered by Linne to represent one species, 

 but Haworth retained the name ^^-. dif forme for ^^ig. 242, and gave the 

 npir-e T^. semicylindricum to the r»lpnt rer^resented et ^ip.» 241, which 

 distinctly differs by its^ more terete end longer pedicels, the plant 

 fiffured by Spim Dyck as ^. difforme 1 now find is merely a form of 

 0, semicylindricum and rot e distinct species as in my former re- 

 count of this snecies I vms Inclined to suppose. 



N. E. Brown 

 (To be continued.) 



L/IESSiJBRYANTIEIvIUI.i . 

 Gard. Chron. III. 82: 409. 1927. 

 (Continued from page 390 ) 



12— GLOTTIPHYLLUII, HA'A'. 



3, G. semicylindricum, K. E, Br., in The Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 1922, Vol. L/DCI, ri. 22 i^ie. 186).— Leaf-pairs obliquely crossing 

 one mother. I-eaves very variable, 1-2 (or under cultivation some- 

 times un to 4) inches lontr, 2^-4 lines broad and nearly as thick, 

 half-cylindric, bearing on the flat face beyond the middle tvjo blunt 

 teeth or a transverse hump or ridge across the leaf, the apical part 

 compressed and bluntly pointed or more or less thickened at the tip, 

 light green, soft and pulpy, pellucid-dotted. Pedicels t-1 inch 

 long, compressed-terete, 2-edged. Corolla li--l'4 inch in diameter; 

 "etals acute or minutely toothed at the apex, and. according to draw- 

 ings at T^ew more numerous and more crov;ded than those of G, difforme. 

 Stiermes, valves and cells of the cansule 8. Capsule (of which about 

 20 examples have been examined) varying on the seme individual from 

 4-7 lines, and on anothe-^^ nlant un to 8 lines in diameter when closed, 

 alvrays with 8 valves and cells, somewhat cup-sha'^ed-obconic, slightly 

 T-rlbbed on the outside, and flattish v.dth 8 slight, ga ning ridges 

 on the ton, whitish -brown; when expended 9-14 lines in diameter; 

 valves snreariinfT horizontpilly, nale brovm; xpanding keels half as 

 loner as the valves, ending abruptly, without en awn or membrane at 

 the tip, light or dark brovm; cells dgen ; cell-v7ings brov-nish; tub- 

 ercles pale brovm or v-hitish. Seeds 4- line long, somewhat I^-shaped, 

 like a seement of an Orange, tuberculate on the beck but not on the 

 sides, brown. 



Mesembryanthemum semicylindricum, Haw. ^bsc^, p. 236 (l795), i!*iisc 

 ?Iat. p. 86, syn. ri, 3ucc., n,, 225, and Rev. Pi. "^ucc. p. 103; -^alm 

 ^yck, T'es.§7, f. 2; Berger, 'i-^s. und Port. p. 232. bounded upon 

 J'-, foliis difformebus, Dillen. Kort Eith, p. 252, t. 194, f. 241, 

 v;hich is a reduced figure of the nlant. Plukenet, Aimagestum^ t. 

 325, f. 4, I'.-, difforme, Linn. ^n.'I'l., ed. 1, p, 487 partly; ■^lam 

 Dvck, 'i'es.^7, f. 3; J^erger, ^-es. und Port., p. 233, M. bidentatum, 



