123 lobes 5-G lines, lonr, orbiculer, '..ith broed, v/hite, membranous 



margins sncl s dorse 1 oolnt. Corolle only seen in r. v/ithered con- 

 dition; netels 10-11 lines lonfr and 2/3-1 line ^^ 



184 bro?=d, line=>r, obtuse, yellov. S+amens pale yellov'. 3 igmas 8, 

 not in a fit state for describing. Cpnsule, v/hen closed, 9-10 

 line in diameter, obconic,with 8 sutural ridges 2t llnea higii on 

 the otherwise flattish top, and with 8 Vclves and cells; valves 

 suberect v/hen expanded, and the eapsule then 13-14 lines in diame- 

 ter, pale ochreous; expending-keels half as long as the valves, 

 widel'- separated at tiie base and diverging, v.lth acute edges, 

 dark brovm, v/ithout points or marginal wings; cells acutely roofed 

 with stiff cell-vdngs and with a large pallid tubercle at the open- 

 ing. Seeds I- line lonpr, ovoid, v;ith a slightly incurved point at 

 ore end, tuberculate, vfith the tubercles on the back, lonr^er than 

 broad and capilla-like brovm. 



Oudtshoorn ^ivisonJ On stony nlains near the Gamka -"^iver, 

 H-uir 4192. 



This is the most striking species of the whole genus that has 

 yet been discovered, and I think its discoverer is right in calling 

 it "The I^inp- of the G-enus." As there has been a drought for about 

 two years in the region wher it grov/s, and yet^the leaves are so 

 lar^e or larger than enresented in my sketch (™ig. 66), I anticipate 

 that in our more humid climate they will become very much larger, 

 and nossibly Drove to be the largest in the genus. 



N. S. Brown 

 (To be continued.) 



MESSIvIBRYANTHE,!UT,! . 



Gerd. Chron. HI. 83^ 194. 1928. 

 (Continued from page 124.) 



1 9^ The follOY'ing are a few supnlementary genera from, among those 

 that T left to be dealth with at the time of nublishing m.y previous 

 ke'^'^s vtntil the m^aterial necessar;/" to make a sufficiently perfect 

 descrintion should be available, and also descrintions of additional 

 snecies and corrections be'' onging to the genera already dealt with. 



GYl-H^TOPOri-., N. S. Br. 



-ienni^l or annual, -oot- stout, fleshy, branching. ^eeYes 

 onnosite or alternate, not united at the base (as is fetated in books) 

 flpt netiolate or snathulate-lanceolate. ^lowers 2-5 in a terminal 

 c^nne, sometimes solitary, nedicellate. ^alyx obconic, acutely 5- 

 angled on the ovFvy part, and the angles with or without small 

 teeth scattered along them, unenuall^ 5-lobed down to its union v/ith 

 the ovary. Petals numerous, free, stamens numerous, erect, fila- 

 ments slender. Stigmas 5, subulate, overto'"ping the stamens. Ovary 

 inferior, shortly conical and 5-angled at the top, 5-6 celled; 

 t>lacentps on the outer v/alls of the. cells. O^pg^^g i^rge, obconic, 

 S-ane'led, and with 5 valves and cells; valves without expanding*^ 

 keels and marginal wings, flattish within, no-*- expanding by beinp 

 wettec", but separating and spreading so whfen the capsule is ripe .?nd 

 dry, and remaing so without closing again; cells deep, open, with- 

 out eel"' -WT n<?s or tubercles, and the thin cell--artitions rising jn 

 a conical manner much above the I'^vel of the beses of the valves, 

 ^eeds compressed, somewhat kidney-shaped, tuberculate. 



The only knovTi species is G. tripoliujn, ^■^. ^. ^v. a native of 



