49 plant of some other knov/n species of this or ^no her genus, for in 

 a young state some members of this group are very different from 

 their adult form. 



-esembryanthemum surrectura, ^-?vr. , I^ev. II. Succ, p. 101 (1821) 

 {"^iff. ?5). — , Leaves decussate, suberect or spree- ding, semiterete- 

 subn late, acute, soft, usually pustulate at the base, ^ary exser- 

 ted , subnedunculate. — Berger, I^/^es. und ^ort., p. 236. 



Var. 3. Leaves shorter, more spreadinfr. 



The above is -'^aworth's description o'f this plant, v/hich he 

 states was in ^ev; Gardens in 1819, and is^all that has hitherto been 

 knov/n of it. At J-'ew, hov;ever, there is a drsv/ing of the type plant 

 (of v.'hicb -^if?,. 35 is a cony), labelled'- "Seised in the year isi? 

 from seeds collected at the ^ane of Good ^^ope by ^^^r. -^owie." From 

 this drawing I glean the follov/ing particulars. Leaves opposite, 

 united at the base and the pairs crossing one another at right- 

 an^,les, 2-2t inches long, about 5 lines broad, except at the base, 

 Y.'here they are dilated, and 4-5 lines thick, semicyllndric, flat on 

 the face, v/ith sharp edges, very rounded on the back, tapering above 

 the niddl e to an obtuse or subacute apex, green and apparently 

 glabrous and shining, not dotted. 



This plant does not annear to belong to the genus Glottiphyllum, 

 and it is hone that by means of ^ig. 35, which is copied from the 

 drawini? of the tyne, it may be rediscovered. 



N. '^. Brown 

 (To be continued, ) 



Gard. Chron. HI. 3.': *. 185. 1928. 

 (Continued from page 49.) 



12.— ^rLOTTIPHYLLUIvI, HA'.V. 

 Additional Species. 



25 G. regium, ' . 2, 3r, (^ig. 66.) — Grov/ths, as received, erect, 

 forming clumps, each with 1-2 pairs of leaves, which, in the youn^jer 

 stages, are closed to.-ether so as to resemble a large beak of a 

 bird and perfectly erect in the specixaens seen; long, the large 

 be^k of a bird and perfectly erect in the specimens seen; the lar- 

 ger leaf of each pair varies from 1-4 inches long, 6-11 lines 

 brood and 6-10 lines thick at the base, the other^ leaf being 4-8 

 lines siiorter and not so thick, but according to J^r. ^-J^uir these 

 dimensions may be far exceeded, as he stated that he found leaves 

 on vdld nlants in a very dry season up to six inches long. They 

 are flat, or the smaller leaf slightly convex on the fpce, end 

 there s-ra dually tarering to a subacute anex in the larger leaf, and 

 to a rounded anex in the smaller one. The larger leaf is of jbbout 

 the smae thicl-'ness throughout, rounded at the apex in side view, 

 rounded on the back at the lower p^rt, pnd compressed rnd obtusely 

 ^■^eeled at the upner rart, while the smaller leaf is usually thinner 

 and sometimes flattened, and at others keeled at the apicel part; 

 surface smooth, vdthout the transverse cells that some species have, 

 fflabrous anci without m:^* cro~cor ical cilia on the edges, light green, 

 su"ffused with red where exposed to full siuishine. -i-edicels 6-18 

 lines long, longer than when in fruit. ^plyx very unequdly 4- 

 lobe'^; the larP'er lobes 9-10 line? lonP' -^nd 6-7 lines broad, ov-^te, 

 f'cute, keeled on the back, v/i thout c^'Ti"- on the keel; the brofder 



