449 apex of the larger leaf is more or less compressed and keeled, and 

 ■slightly twisted to one side; substance very soft and pulpy; sur- 

 face smooth, but under c strong lens seen to be covered with short 

 linear, raised surface-cells, transverse to the leaf, glabrous, ' 

 light green, pellucid-dotted, sometjmes appearing under a lens 'as 

 If frosted at the basal pert. Flowers sessile. Calyx in mature 

 budabout 5 lines in diameter, acutely 2-angled, TDroduced above its 

 union with the ovary into a tube about 1^ line long, 4-lobed above- 

 lobes about 5 lines long, ovate, with membranous margins, two of ' 

 them acute, and acutely keeled on the back, and the keel distinctly 

 ciliate, and t-o obtuse. Corolla If-lt inch in diameter, cuP-sh-r-d 

 exr^anding in the norninc even in dull weather if the teranereture is ' 

 sufficent, but mo^e widely onen in bright sunshine; petals 45-50 in two 

 |eries, all united for about two lines at the base, 11-14 lines lor/^ 

 4-line broad, linear, acute, entire, clear vellow on both sides °' 

 not shining, otsmens erect, somewhat loose (this may be what Haw- 

 orth means by expanding"), entirely yellow. Stigmas 8-10, spread- 

 ing, 3-llnes lonff, acute, clumose, whitish. C^ary half-superior 

 8-10-celled. ^arsule when closed 5-7 lines and when expanded 9-' 

 11 lines in diameter, with 8-10 valves and cells; valves horizontally 

 spreading, 2* lines long, pallid, with dark brora , exnanding-keels , 

 ha.lf as long ^s the valves and diverging from the base, acute and 

 o-Pten very minutely toothed along the top, ending precipitously under 

 the base of a minute terminal, evm-like point or tooth, without mar- 

 ginal win s; cells roofed with rather stiff, brownish cell-wings, and 

 the opening nearly closed by a large, compresse, cream-coloured 

 tubercle. Seeds about 2/3 line in diameter, nearly circular in 

 outline, compressed, minutely tuberculate, dark brown, 



I-esembryanthemum graeringue, Her. Cbs., p. 179 (l795). ingc. 

 1 :i ''I^' ^yn. Pi. ^cc., p. 222, and ^ev . H, ciucc, p! 95, ex- 

 cluding the reference to "M heterophyllum, Jackson in -ndr. Bot. 

 Rep., t. 540?"; not of Salm Dyci< nor ^er^-er. 



SouthpAfrica: Locality unknovm, introduced by i^iasson in 1791 

 according to -'-iton. But the plant above described as probably being 

 the sepcies was sent to ^ew Gardens by Miss ''Viian as coming from 

 Prince ^Ibert ^^Ivision. -nd a plant of it in my ovm collection was 

 sent to me as having been collected at -Kiearstroom, near the 

 ^wartberg Range, in Prince ^^Ibert division, by Mrs. van der Bin 3. 

 I^irsl van der Biji^ informs me that she "found few perfect ^larts 

 as the stock seem to have eaten most of the centres out." 



-'ig. 207 is drawn from various leaves on the plants described 

 above, of natural size, but the eniculus represented at the apex of 

 the leaves often disappear. 



10. G. aPiculatum, N. E. Br. (Fig. sOS).— Leaves probably 

 about 2 pairs to a growth v;hen res tine: under nrtursl conditions 

 but rmder cultivation 3-4 pairs to a grov.th, with the pairs placed 

 very obliuely or at right angles to one another, ascendi nf?-spreading 

 and on= o^ e^c-. pair usually slightly recurving, mostly l"l- eI 

 inches long, sometimes shorter, 4-7 lines bro^d end 3-4 lines thick 

 at the base, thence sradually tapering to a subacute apex, which is 

 alwys ti-Ped with p very short, hard, reddish point or apiculus; 

 flat or faintly convex on the uPPer side, bluntly keeled dow the 



.2f !v ^? "'"'"^^ '^^^^ ^'^^ *^^^® tripronous in transverse section, 

 with the sides convex, microscorically ciliate on the edges and ani- 

 cal part o^ the keel of the younger pair of leaves, the cili« disa- 

 ppearing with age; substance fleshy; surface smooth, glabrous, with 



