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12— G-LOTTIPHYLLUIvI, HAV;. 



9, G, pr'^enineue, N, E. Br., in '^e 'hardeners' Chronicle, 1922, 

 Vol. LXXT, p. 9 {^ig. 207),— Hev'orth's characters for this species 

 pre J — ^epves of different shapes and len^rths- recurvinP'--some betv;- 

 een senicylindric and tongue-shaped — others narrower, longer and v/ith- 

 out any oblioue curve or ridge near the noints--others with subulate 

 triangular rioints end ending" in harmless, vvhite bristles or short 

 points — and a few tih broad, succonpressed-subdolabriform, keeled 

 rioints ending in short, v/hite, bristly hairs, exceedingly fleshy, 

 fat and soft to the touch ( on which account I have named it praer- 



ingue "very fat"); light green, shining, faintly impunctate, whitish 



end shining near their inner bases or as if frosted over with excee- 

 ding? minute pppillae, the youns leaves minutely ciliate at the edges, 

 ^lowers nearly sessile ^eessil:' at ^ev, '^1. ^ucc, p. 95), ■'edicel, 

 if any, exceedingly short, rather angular and smooth, ^eljx unequally 

 4-lobed; all the lobes with membranous edges and ciliate keels, tv/o 

 of them larp-er than the others, v;ith broad, plain dilated bases, 

 triangular points end slightly meiiibranous edges, the other two 

 shorter, with broad, brownish, retlculaten margins. Corolla not so 

 large as that "of my lingueforme" (i.e., 21, G, latum, ".S.br,), 

 of long duration; petals, linear-lanceolate^ broad, minutely denticu- 

 late at the apex, brigtit yellov/, shining, -^tamens erect, expanding, 

 yello"-. Stigmas 8, nlumose. Capsule sessile (ReF, Pi, ^ucc, p. 

 95), small, with 8 blunt ridges and a large deep central hollov/ on 

 the toT^, 8-celled. 



The above characters are as given by Haworth, but arrrnged di- 

 fferently, and clearly demonstrate that the plant figured by Salm 

 %ck (I-es., 7, f,5) 8s K. rraeningue cannot oe the same as that 

 described by Haworth under this name, there being no mention made _ 

 nor rerirese-^tation in the figure of the "bristles or short points" 

 (i.e., what is botanically called a mucro or aniculus) at the tips 

 of any of the leaves; the flower is very distinctly pedicillate and 

 the stietmas 10. I have therefore described ^alm -^yck's plant as 

 distinct, see 4, G, subditum, W. 2. Bp, 



G. praepingue has lone since died out of cultivation, but I 

 believe that a plant recently introduced is snecifica] ly identical 

 v;ith that whic'i ^ai^i^orth described, sine it fairly agrees with his 

 description and is entirely different from the plant ^alm ^yck and 

 ell other authors have mistaken it for it, Th 3 follov/ing as a 

 description of it compiled from four different living snecimens'. — 



Leaves v/ith the pairs more or less obliauely cr5ssing one ■=- 

 nother, ascending-spreading, straight or curved to one side, l£- 

 3i inches Ion??, 5-8 lines broad at the middle, 4-5 lines thick, 

 somewhat variable, sometimes parallel sided below and narrowing 

 from above the middle to an acute or subobtuse point, sometimes 

 gradually tapering from the base to an acute or obtuse apex, which 

 is tipped v.'ith a short, whitish or brovvnish mucro or point that 

 often disappears v/ith age, and which I conceive to be the bristle or 

 short roint" of Hgworth's descrintion; flat or faintly convex on 

 the face, often with an oblicue ridge or keel near the apex of the 

 larger leaf "•here the flat pert ends, caused by the pressure upon 

 it of the opposed leaf in bud; con ex on the back and becoming 

 sliehtly kee'' ed or triengular at the apex of the smaller leaf or 

 sometimes of both leaves of a nair, but in more adult growths the 



