510 no less than four different names, for the four figures quoted a- 

 bove under that variety are certainly only individual forias of 

 one plant and might even have been made from the seime specimen in 

 different years. The question arises, is this a variation that is 

 due to ciji tivetion and not found in the v/ild state? ^'cr having? 

 seen one of my imported plants change under my own eye from the 

 straiffht-leaved '''-. I'^tum to the curved-leaved variety cultratum, 

 I wrote to Df. I'uir for information as to whether G. cultratum 

 occurred vdth G. latum in its native habitiat. I-e very kindly made 

 a jouney to the locality v;here it grov/s wild, and v/rites concerning 

 it:-- " I examined several hundred of plants in the localitites of 

 my 3874 and 3e75. Please note that in nature not one showed any evi- 

 dence of the cultrate^ f orm v/hich is evidently the sybaritic culti- 

 vater^ London r Salm -^yckian form of G. iptum." ^jiis would seem 

 to be conclusive evidence that the two forms are merely conditional 

 variations of the same individual under cultivation only, and so, 

 for e;arden rurnoses, the varietal name, cultratum may be retained. 

 If further proof is neede d that G. latum and ^. cultratum are one 

 species, ^ may mention that at I^^v; there is an original drawing 

 dated "r>ec. 2, 1823" made from a plant received from ^rince Sgim 

 Dyck in 1823 under the name of "^5^, cultratum," v/hic represents the 

 nlant as having nearD.y straight leaves, just as my plant (mentioned 

 above) had when received from South Africa. 



jDr. --uir informs me that in their native localities this ■^nd 

 other snecies will "stand frost well. But when they are brought 

 into a garden (meaning in South Africa in the region where they grov/ 

 vdld) and pet more water they swell up, become bloated and very lux- 

 uriant but invariably blacken and die when frost comes anc catches 

 •'■'-'em in this abnormdlv luxuriant state." -his information indicates 

 that these nlants should receive very little vrater during the v/inter, 

 in Eurone, if it is desired to keep the more choice and delicate 

 sr>eoies alive. 



22, G, depressum, ^^.E.Br. in The "hardeners' Chronicle, 1921, 



Col. X-^Tv, u. 327 (^ig; 247) Growths pressed upon or directed to- 



\«r=rds the ground. Leaves 2-ranked, apparently about 2-2g- inches 

 lon^ and 7-8 lines 

 511 broad, and of nearly eoual breadth throughout, nearly horizontally 

 spreading or sliglitly sloninr dov^award and slightly curved upwards 

 edf^eways at the tips, strap-shaped, obtusely/ rounded at the apex, 

 with a short point directed forv/ards at the upper edge, pale green 

 (in the original dravdng the ereen is much paler than in the re- 

 production of it), ^lowers sessile, ^e.lj-x. unequally 4-lobed; 

 three of the lobes keeled and the keel minutely cilia te. '^orolla 

 cup-shaped, 2 inches or more in diameter, expanding in sunshine 

 only, not ir cloudy or dull weather; petals in 2 series, acute, yel- 

 low, with 8 red midline and the aPex itself freouently red on the 

 back. Stamens short, yellow. Stigmas 10, ovary short, ovate- 

 lanceolate (probably plumose), incurved, yellowish. Capsule depres- 

 sed, with 10 ridses on the ton and 10 pells,. 



'-esembryanthemum denressiom, Hpvj. ^ Ivlisc. ^"at., p. 33 (l803), 

 Synon. PI. Succ . , p. 221 ,_ and ^ev. tl. 3ucc.,^p. 99. ^pt. i^feg. t., 

 1866, not of Selm ^yck. Li, rufescens, ^%w, , Syn. ^1. Aicc., p, 

 221 tl812)^, and Sunpl. Pi. Succ, p. 89 (l819)". H, longum var, 

 declive, Kgw. , Hev. Fl, Succ, p. 96 (l82l). i^. linguaeforme var. 

 rufescens, Ilaw. , Rev. Pi, Succ, p, 98. L-. linguiforme var. flacci- 

 dum, ^ercer, --'es. und Port., p, 240, 



