South Africe* Locality and co.llector unknov^'n. ^uitiveted by 

 Haworth in 1795. 



This sT>ecies is unfcnovm to me, end the above is compiled partly 

 from the original description of ^'^ev/orth and partly from the figure 

 in the Botanical ^-as-azine vhich accurately a_.grees v;ith Haworth's 

 descrirition, and from which I have adapted ^i(T. 247. 



Hav;orth, however (Rev. Pi. 3ucc._,. p. 96), ^-rongly refers the 

 figure in Bot. i^ieg., t. 1865, to his "■'esembryanthemum longum var. 

 flaccidura, which v^as founded unon a ver^^- different snecies with pedi- 

 cellate flowers (see G. l^tum^var. cultretum, and under G-. longum), 

 and I think it nrobable that ^"^^av/ort'^i intended to quote the 5ot. 

 MRg. figure under ''■■''■. longum var. declive, v;hic;: he places after var. 

 "flaccidum, and v^hich has sessile flov/ers and according to descrip- 

 tion otherwise agrees with G. denressum, but by some accident he en- 

 tered the Quotation in the v/rong place. 



Haworth also v/rongly quotes (^yn. Pi. S^cc, v, 22l) "-'ig. ' S6 

 of i^illenius, Kort. "^Ith., as be"ongin>^ to G. depressura. But the 

 ^illenian figure has cedicellate flowers and belong to G. latum, 

 ^".^.Br. which see. 



T believe -•.'. rufescens, /-aw., should be referred to this species, 

 There is no figure of it at ^ev^7, and it is only known from ^aworth's 

 descrirtion, v/hich in the sessile flowers and other characters sta- 

 ted seems to accord vjith G. denressum. '-^he rufescent colour of the 

 leaves mentioned by -^^aworf^ is not a specific character, but was 

 doubtless due to some cultiiral ceuse. 



I. . ^. -^rown 

 C^o be continued.) 



IvffiSEI.TBRYANTIimiUi!. 

 Gard. Chron. HI. 83: 13. 19^8. 

 (Continued from ^^ol. LJCDIII, p. 511.) 



12.— G-LOTTIPHYLLUI^, HAW. 



23, G. suave, ^^.E.Br. (Fig. 7). — Growths in the only plant 

 seen cro^'ded. leaves directed forv/ards, not very spreading, l-o--2 

 inches long, 8-12 lines broad and 3-6 lines thick on an imported 

 Plant, nrobab]y becoming larger on an imported plant, probably be- 

 coming larger under c-j.ltivation, v/ith the pairs more or less obli- 

 nuely crossing one another, flat on the face and one of a pair v/ith 

 an oblinue keel at the enical Dart, and much thicker and more con- 

 vex on the back than the other, usually more or less tongue- or 

 strap-shaped, with parallel sides, but sometimes narrowing upvvards , 

 without a pustule at the base; apex variable, in the thinner and flat- 

 ter leaf sometimes rounded, v/ith a central very short, blunt point, 

 sometimes obliquely subtruncate with a short, hard noint at the end 

 o-P the UT^ner edge, as is usually the case with the ornosed leaf 

 having a keel on its face, its beck being obliquely keeled and some- 

 what twisted at the apex; substance firmly fleshy; surface smooth, 

 but v;ith the usual raised surface-cells, as seen under a strong lens, 

 dull green, sometimes tinted v/itL brov/nish, scarcely shining, not 

 pellucid-dotted. Pedicels none, or 5-6 lines long, subterete, very 

 slightly 2-edged, glabrous. CsIatc 5 lines in diameter in mature bud, 

 DToduced beyond it s union v:ith the ovary into a short tube about 

 4 line long, 4-lobed above, three of the lobes about 2 lines long and 

 3-4 lines broad, the fourth lobe being about 4-4-| lines long, ell 

 v/ith v/hitish, membranous margins, but the membrane longer and broader 



