V/hen I received a pl??nt of this reniprksble form from Dr. 

 Muir, ^ at once noticed it es being the same es thst figured in 

 Andrews' Botanical depository es above quoted, of which I cannot 

 find any record that it has been in cultivation there since the 

 neriod of that figure, As ^ received it without information of 

 its origin I naturally considered such a distinct-looking plant to 

 be a dintinct species, and made the above description of it. '"^en, 

 hov/ever, I received inf orma tioi^of its origin from Dr. ^-uir, it v/as 

 as follov.'sJ — "Ih'' Giott. pustuflatum. and your proposed Giott. heme turn 

 both grev/ on the same root, and are both S,8S4 from near ^itenhege, 

 170 feet. You Pet flat rdult leeves and leaves extensively bamated 

 as you noted. The latter is one of the turgid very succulent form.s 

 whic^ it assumes. Some of them, are as hooked as the hooked index 

 fine-er. I^'y 3,824 ^ collected myself, ^ have other co] lections of 

 the same nlant which I brought from gardens at 2ast London. j-'hey 

 were also collected in '^itenhage J^lvision at Dispatch, and taken to 

 Sast I-ondon, and they show the same heterophylly, '' If collectors 

 had eny sent such valuable information as this with plants sent to 

 Europe many errors v/ould have been avoided.; for I doubt if any 

 cultivator or bot«inist in this part of the world without knowledge 

 of the fact would have suspected thet the tv;o forms of leeves repre- 

 sented by Figs, 281 and 222 grew Hpon the same root and are therefore 

 not even legitimate varieties, although, for garden purr>oses, -i- 

 have here so considered them. It is remarkable that besides the 

 difference in the shape of the leaves, the portion of the plant sent 

 to me v/ith hooked leaves pIso differs from the tynical form of G. 

 pustulatum b - having shorter pedice].s and fev/er stigmes and valves 

 and cells to the capsule. 



"^he only other known srecies described as having a pristule at 

 the base, are the allied G. erectum (which differs b^^ its ascending 

 stems and leaves, and by its leaves being more acute and more cental- 

 ly pointed), and the very dissimilar ^. grsndiflorum and ^. Salmii, 

 which both have sessile flpvi^ers. 



I am informed by l^v ^-Aiir, to whom I am. indebted for living 

 netive material of this snecies and its m-^rieties, that "in its 

 native habitat a number of the grov/ths grow from one stem., end as 

 they set larger tend to slope towards the ground. They form patches 

 a yard or more in diameter, so dense that the ground is completely 

 covered. The leaves are pale green, and when they get wa.ter reach 

 p length of ten inches." j^'igs. 221 and 222 are both made from the 

 rlpnts sent to me by Dr. l^uir under ''^o. 3, 824 as being portions 

 from the same root, as above stated, ^he plants from Mice, which 

 I formerly thought mifrht be G. nus tula turn, nroves (now that I have 

 seen the true G, rustulptiim(i.e, , G, longum) from its type locality) 

 to be distinct, and belonp-s to the next species, G,^ erectum. 



M, longum vars. angustius, and nurpurascens , Kgv/, ^ Rev. Pi, 

 Succ, n, 96ft97; Berger, ^-^s. und port., p. 240 pre quite unknown, 

 and may possibly belong to some other species. 



N, E, Bro'A'n 

 (To be continued.) 



I;IES2I.3RYANTIi3IvIU]a[ , 

 Gard.^Ghron. HI. 82^ 489. 1927. 

 (Continued from page 471.) 



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