49 acute point at the apex of the upner margin, fist or slightly 

 convex on the fece, with a trrnsverse keel near the apex on one 

 leaf of a pair, orrned by pressure against the shorter opposing 

 leaf, convex, or v;ith s very oblique longitudinal obtuse keel on 

 the back; at first the leaves ere microscopically cilia te on the 

 raargins and keel, but v/ith age this ciliation disappears; substance 

 soft with fleshy; surface smooth, glabrous, chalky-green and more 

 or less suffused vdth rosy and purple when fully exposed to the 

 sun; native grown plants v/hen received had the very young leaves 

 and the flat face and basal part of the back of the older leaves 

 of ? pinkish or light purplish tint blending into the greyish-green 

 or glaucous-green of the apical part, not dotted, ^'lowers sessile, 

 '^elyx unequally 4-lobed, glabrous; lobes 4-6 lines long and 4-5 

 lines broad, or perhaps larger (only one dried flower seen), the 

 pair v/ith broad, membranous margins. Corolla spttarently £i-2| 

 inches in diameter; petals in about 2 series, an inch or more long, 

 i-S/3 line broad, as seen dried, linear, obtuse, yellov. Stamens' 

 2 lines long, apparently of a paler yellow than the petals; fila- 

 ments not bearded. Stigmas 7-8, about 1 line long, plumose, yellow. 

 Ovary convex on the top, 7-R-celled. Cgt^sule sessile, about half- 

 an-inch in diameter v.-hen closed, with 7-8 valves and cells; valves 

 re-flexed when expanded, about 3 lines long and 2 lines broad, del- 

 toid, dark grey (nerhaps from age) with their expanding keels §-* 

 line apart at the base, stout, obtusely rounded along the top and 

 ending in an evm, much shorter than the valves, without marginal 

 v/ings, dark brown; cells roofed with somev.tiat stiff, dark brov/n 

 cell-wings, and the opening nearly closed by a lar^:e pale brov/n 

 tubercle,. Seeds ^-line in diameter, compressed, roundish in out- 

 line w5-th ^. .''^"^ 1 '' r1r-^le, TnTmitelv tiiberO'il '^ te , a''-'""V oriprue o-pey- 

 brown . 



Prince /s-lbert -division: -^^aroo, near -^rince --^Ibert, grov.dng 

 among stones of its ov?n colour, ^-eil van der ^ijl. 



This very distinct species was first sent to me by ^-r. •^*. 3. 

 Pi'' laps end afterwards by i«Irs. 2. van der ^iji^ who informed me 

 that it was discovered as above recorded by her son, ^-^ster ^^^eil 

 van der Siji, after whom I have much pleasure in- naming this remark- 

 able sriecies, v/hich ^ understand is not p-'^rti cularly easy to find its 

 form and colouration being so very different from the usual long 

 srass-fi;reen leaves vre are accustomed to se in other species of this 

 ?enus. I am also indebted to j---rs. van der ^ijl for a dried flower 

 of it, from v/hich the above description is made, for neither of my 

 tv;o plants have flov/ered, nrobably ov/ing to v;ant of sun last year. 



This is remar^ablv distinct from all other species of this 

 penus at present known, and can be instantly recognised by its short 

 broad leevessnd their neculiar opeoue, chalky-freen or greyish- 

 green 'Ground colour in sumjner, tinted with pinkish or purplish. 

 The colouration of plants fully exposed to the sun or native-grown 

 nlan s is ouite pleasinf? and very different from that of all its 

 •'Hies. In the winter, under my sunless conditions, the leaves be- 

 come ffreen. 



7ifT, 34 represents an entire nlent as received from South Africa, 

 and p leaf from another nlant after it had been in cultivation a 

 year, both of natural size. It has the appearance of being a spe- 

 cies that increases very slo-'-'ly, 



?.7. '>. ochrpceum, -^.E.Bp. ^ in The hardeners' Chronicle, 1922, 

 Vol. ^CXI, p. 21.-- Stems forming a matted m-ass, prostrate, 2-edged, 

 vdth internodes ur. to one inch long, purrle, finally whitish, and 



