14 exoand they become spread out into a ring. 'Stigmas yellow, 8-10, 



iqhout ?.i-5 lines lon^, plumose, at first erect, afterwards spreading. 



^'esembryanthemum frs grans, Spim. Qyck, Obs. 3ot., p. 8 (1820), 

 and "es.^ 8, f. 2; Link and ^^tto, ^c. -Pi. ^el . , p. 83, t. 43; Hav/. 

 Hev. Pi. 8ii.cc., p. 95; Bot. -^g., t. 8934. ^•^. linguiforme var. 

 tVPffTPr]s, Berber, ^les. und ^ort.^ p. 2 42. 



Lndi smith division i Klein l^aroo; ^'lethuis region; fole ^vons, 

 -ulr 3907, Swellendam I^ivision^ On the ^okkeveld shales rmd in rock 

 crevices at --oenie Kuilen, at Pbout 1800 feet elevFtion, flov/ering 

 in Anril, I-uir 3893, Originally raised from South • -^-"-'can seeds at 

 Carlsruhe Botanic Garden inl816. 



In my former account of this genus in The G-ardeners' Chronicle, 

 1921, ''^ol. LXXj T). 327, I suggested that this might be the same as 

 G-. denressuro, but now that I have seen more material of it -^ believe 

 that it ife quite distinct. 



Different individuals of this species differ widely and v/ould 

 doubtless be often mistaken for distinct species, and it is rather 

 unfortunate that v/hen the Botanical I>^-g8zine plate wa.s published that 

 an unpublished drawing of the very same individual made in 1919 (two 

 years earlier than that of the published plate) was not also includ- 

 e-"'' on the rlete to show the ^-^reat vegetative variation of this spe- 

 cies. VJhen I first feceived a plant of ^--uir 3907 it was so very di- 

 fferent in appearance from ^, fragrans that I certa inly mistook it 

 for a new and very distinct species, the leaves being small and 

 ovate, as shown In ^ig. 9, the young pair, having their flat faces 

 closel:/- pressed together, formed an egg-shaped central l)ody about 

 an in ch long, the outer pair being rather larger. 3r. --uir informs 

 me that a number of such growths are formed upon the top of a root- 

 stock forming a hemispherical mass 4-6 inches in diameter, v/ith 

 leaves pointing in all directions, ^nder cultivation, however, 

 it becomes G-. fragrans. 



Fig. 10 reriresents a plant at rest as it jrrows in South -lifrica 

 in a ver;"" dry season, showing the ovate leaves and an expanded cap- 

 sule, natural, si'ze, buth the leaves are, of course, much larger when 

 alive. ?icr. 9 is from a similar living, imnorted plant, showing the 

 ovate leaves as they deve'^o^ed at Kev/. ?ig. 11 is from a photograph 

 taken by my daughter of a plant cultivated by m.yself, natural size. 



N» E. Brown 

 (To be continued.) 



I<3;3SI.3RYAiTTHSIv:i3i: . 

 Gard. Chron. HI; 83: 49. 1928). 

 (Continued from page 14.) 



12 . — GLOTTIPIIYLLm! , KAW , 



49 25. G. Neilii, IT. 5. Br. (Fig. 34).— Stemless, each native- 

 grown Plant consisting of on^y one or two very short grov;ths about 

 an inch in height and lf-2 inches across the full spread of the 

 leaves. Grov/ths more or less depressed towards the ground. I^eaves 

 under natural conditions in 1-2 pairs, or under cultivation 3 pairs 

 to a ■'^rowth, two-ranked or v.lth the pa^rs^placed somev/hat obliquely 

 to each other; on native grovm plants t-li inch long, 9-18 lines 

 broad, and 4-7 lines thick, becoming under cultivation up to 2i 

 inches long, 18 lines broad and 6-B lines thick, varying from some- 

 vrhat souare to obloncr or obliouely oblong-ovete, subtruncate or broad- 

 Iv rounded at the anex, sometimes one leaf of a pair has a very short 



