489 No mention is made of an apiculus in the descriptions nor any repre- 

 sentation of it in the figure of I.:. Salmii, so thst possibly the 

 above mentioned varieties really belong to G. praepingue or to some 

 closely allied species, 



I have not seen a living nlant of ^. ^almii and have adapted 

 ^ig. 196 from the figure, quoted above, In the present state of 

 our knov/ledge of these plants and in view of such proofs of varia- 

 tion in the leaves as I" am giving evidence of under G. semicylindri- 

 cum, G, fragrans and G, longum., may it not be possible that G, 

 Selmii is only a form of G, praepingue *? The difference between 

 them is that in the figure and description of G, Salmii no indication 

 is made of the awn-like apiculus present on most of the leaves of 

 G, tiraerinpne, pnd the presence of a v/hitis-h basal mark on the leaves 

 of &, Salmii that is absent on those of ^, praepingue. i^-ore native 

 material is needed to solve this problem, 



8. G. r^rlothii, Schyantes in ^eitschr. f. -^kkul., Vol, II, 

 T5, 242, v/ith Fig. (l926), (^ig. 19?), — Growths more or less pros- 

 trate v.'ith age. Leaves in tv;o ranks, spreading, straight or recur- 

 ving, with the tin of one leaf of each pair upcurved or hooked edge- 

 v;ays, li-4 inches lone; and 8-10 inches broad at the middle, broader 

 at the base, 4-5 lines thick, somewhat narrowing upwards to an ob- 

 tuse or slightly hooked mucronate apex, flattish or faintly concave 

 on the face, convex on the back and the larger leaf of each p&ir 

 obliquely keeled at the apex, which is obtuse but often (or perhaps 

 always) tinned with a smaller point or mucro at the end of the 

 upper edge; surface smooth but under a strong lens seen to be cover- 

 ed with minute raised linear surface-cells transverse to the letf, 

 bright green, shining, pellucid-dotted and with a row of contiguous 

 dark snots along each edge. Flowers sessile or subsessile, fragrant. 

 Petals rather broad. Capsule stated to be 7-11 celled in the I^etin 

 descrintion and 7-9 celled in the German, but as figured is 7- 

 celled. 



Uniondale ^ivisionJ i^'aroo near Uniondale, ^^^rloth 10991, 



I do not possess this species, but Mr, 2. Toyior, of Southborough 

 having obligingly lent me his plant' of it for the purpose of this 

 description, I find that it is not allied to G. grandiflorum and 

 G. fraprrsns as Schv.-antes states, but belongs to the sma group, as 

 G, nraeninffue. I'r. Schviantes (as -^erfrer and others have done^ 

 seems to accept the names as given by Salm ^yck as being correct, 

 and t^ierefore constantly creates confusion, whereas one has only 

 to look at sue'-, of his figures as I have indicated under G, semi- 

 cylindricura and G. lettim end its variety to see that v/hat is eviden- 

 tly but one srecies has been given several different names, '^alm 

 Dyck's firures are excellent, but as I have repeatedly stated, are 

 often untrustv/orhy as 

 i30 to names, and so long as v/r iters upon this group of plants persist 

 in accenting his names as correct without first investigating their 

 authenticity, as so long will confusion exist. 



Fig. 195 is reproduced by permission of Dr. ^auperl from the 

 fimire in the ^eitschrift f. -'ukkulentenkunde, by menas of a photo^ 

 graph kindly sent to me bv «lr. G. ±i., Ivlaass. 



N. E. brovm 

 (To be continued,) 



MESaiBRYANTIiEIvIUM. 

 G«rd. Ohron, HI, 82: 449, 1927. 



