ur>-nvards edfre^vpys, flat on lightly convex, especially neer the base 

 oh the UTjper surface, convex on the back, and one leaf of a pair 

 produced beyond the flat surface into a stout compressed and keeled 

 blunt noirit, often more or less incurved end slightly oblique or 

 tv/isted, very stout, succulent and soft to the touch, green, v/ith 

 roundish pellucid dots of various sizes, i^edicels about 9-10 lines 

 lonp- pnd 3 lines or more thick, very stout, subterete but somewhet 

 2-edged, of eouel thickness throuP'hout. '^rlyr^ l^rge, 4-lobed; the 

 tvro -^uter lobes s^-orter than the inner, keeled, wit', thin edges 

 and -'^lunt noints; the two inner longer, very broadly membranous, 

 not keeled. Cordis scarcely as large as that of G. dif forme, ex 

 Hav/ot-^h, but ?^ccordins- to '^alm "^yck's figure nearly 2i inches in 

 diameter; petals "not quite so long as those of G. dif forme, but 

 brofider," ex ^^aworth, and according to ^alra "^yck's figure in 2 series, 

 about 11 lines long and nearly 2 lines broad, obtusely pointed or 

 subacute. Stamens very numerous, short, sr^reading, yellov;. ^tig- 

 mas 8-9. Capsule small for the size of the plant, tapering dovmards, 

 vrith a hollow or n^vel at the ton, ^vith ^-9 grooved ridges on the 

 tor, and vith 8-9 valves and cells. 



l.?e s emb rya n t h emum c ru c ia tun , ^^sv. ^b s . , p ♦ 173 (1795), i'd s c . 

 Nat. 35, Synop. Pi. 3ucc. , n. S24, and Hevl Pi. ■^ucc, p. 100; ^^alm 

 Dyck, I'es.,g8, f. 9 (but not§7, f. 7), not of Berger. 



South Africa'. Locality unknov/n; introduced by i-asson in 1792, 

 according to -^iton, and if ^v/orth is right in identifying it with a 

 plant described by Boerhaave it was in cultivation before 1720. 



I have not seen this plant. The above description of it is 

 made pa-'^tly from that of ^"^aworth, pertly from an original drawing 

 of the t-^i'Pe nlant at ^yj, which aiton caused to be made of it, 



* The drav.'ings preserved at Kev; of the type plants of Meserabry- 

 anthemxam and other genera that v.'ere described by ^[pv/orth and^ other 

 authors, v;ere made under the direction of V/, T, ^iton, then -director 

 of Kew Gardens, and ^^^awoth evidently knev; that they v-ere being made, 

 and undoubted!-"- alluded to them under M, canum, in his Miscellanea 

 Npturalia, p. 26 (1803). 



and partly f rom _Ssim "^yck's figure of it. T^ig^ plate ( Ss, f. 9) 

 is m^de in the ^v? collection of drawings, and -^'ig. 188 is adapted 

 from it, but is m'ssing from some, nerhaps most, copies of the book, 

 which Is unfortunate, as it undoubtedly represents the tru M, crucia- 

 tum of KpvTorth, while the plant Solm -^yck also figures as M. crucia- 

 tura at §7 f. 7 is not at all the same species, differing in its 

 leaves and and much this more slender pedicel, I have described this 

 latter plant as G. longipes. 



N. E» Brown 

 (To be continued.) 



MESSIvBRYAlTTriaAmi . 

 Gard. Ghron. III. 82: 429. 1927. 

 (continued from page 409,) 



12.— GLOTTIPHYLLUIvi^ HAW. 



