5. CJ, longipes, N.TC.Br. (^ir?. 195), — Gowths decumbnet or 

 prostrate. Leaves 3-34- inches lonp; end 3-8 lines broad, fist on 

 the face, rounded on the bsck et the lov/er pert, becoming keeled 

 and coxriDressed pt the ppex which in the larger leaf of each pair is 

 produced shortlv beyond the fist fpce end in side view is obtusely 

 rounded, end this leaf is incurved, v;hile the other leaf of each 

 nair is acute in side view and strongly recurved, s^nooth, green, 

 shining, somev/hat pellucid-dotted. I^edicel ebout 1* inch long and 

 and 2 lines thick, terete. Celyx 4-lobed; lobes broadly ovate, two 

 o-f them keeled. Corolla 2-2* inches in diameter; petals in two 

 series, linear, obtusely pointed, entire, yellow. Stamens numerous, 

 y^^llow. "tigmes 8, plumose, yellov.'ish, 



Mesembyanthemum cruciatum, Selm ^yck, i^es,,§7, f. 7 (not 

 8, f.9), Berger, ^es. und ^ort. p. 237, f. 50, copied from Salm 

 I>yck, not of Ha worth. 



South Africa! Locality and collector unknown, stated to have 

 been raised at 3choenbrunn from South -^^frican seeds. 



This species is nnknovm to me, and I have described it end 

 illustrated' the character of its leaves A^ig. 195^ from Salm Dyck's 

 figure end description above quoted, which, as J- have explained 

 under G, cruciatum, does not represent the tru J^^'^esem.bryenthemum 

 cruciatum of Hav/orth, 



7. G. Salmii, I.. E. Br. in ^e Gardeners' Ghronicle, 1922, 

 Vol, LXXI, p, 9 (^ig, 196) — Leaves unequal, the pairs more or less 

 crossing one another so as to point four ways, the outer spree ding, 

 2-I-3I inches long, 6-8 lines broad and about 4 lines thick at the 

 base, gradually tapering to an acute apex, but the larger leaf in- 

 curved, v/hile the sihaller leaf is acute and recurved, flat on the 

 face, v.'ith a slight pustule at its base, obliquely convex on th^ 

 back, the larger leaf of a pair where it is produced at the apex; 

 surface smooth, glabrous, very green, v;ith a whitish basal mark, 

 pellucid-dotted, firmly fleshy. Flowers sessile. Calyx compressed, 

 4-lobed; lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, apiculate, all v,ith submenbra- 

 nous edges, two of them gibbous -keeled, Corolla 24 inches in diam- 

 eter; petals in 1-2 series, cunertely linear, very obtuse and 

 minutely denticulate at the apex, yellow. Stamens yellow. Stigmas 

 8, Plumose yelloi^ish, 



Ivlesembryanthemum Spimii, Haw. Suppl, Pi, Succ, p, 89 (l°19) 

 and Rev. Pi. Succ. p. 100; Link and Ctto, ^G. nl. Select., p. 95, t. 

 44; Salm "Dyck, iles.§ 7, f. 8; Berger, ^"es. und Port., p. 236. 



South Africa J Locality and collector unknovm, stated to have 

 been raised from seed at ^ienna in 1814. 



Howorth (Hev. Pi. Succ, p. 199) described three forms of this 

 plant, namely? — V'ar, decussatum, by which he means the typical G, 

 Salmii, vrith leaves crossing one another more or less at right angles. 

 Var. semicruclaturn, Solm -^yck, O^s. Bot,, p. 12 (l820 ) . "Leaves 

 oblinuely distichous, straight, not exactly decussate and more 

 tongue-shaped.'' And Var. angustif olium, "Leaves longer and narrower," 

 M, Salmji var. elong^tum, Salm ^yck, I'ies. under ^7, f, 8, 



Salm Dyck sent young plants of the varietis semicruciatum and 

 angustifolium (the latter as ver. elongatum to Kew in 1823, where 

 drawings ere made of them in that year. Tjiese drav.'ings represent 

 the leave!= as straight and different in appearance from those repre- 

 sented in Saiiti Dyck's fi-^ure of M. Spimii, and the young leaves are 

 very distinctly represented as being tipped with an apiculusm, and I 

 stronely suspect that these figures represent plants of G. praepingiie. 



