foli-^re it somewhat resembles younp plants of Hoodir dig-itifolia , 

 N.TH.Br. , but the leaves lEire more slender, end in its stiff petpls 

 and the lon-^ duration of its fl overs it reser^bles those of I^acty- 

 lorsis digitetr. , N.E.Br. The development of its fla era hrs been 

 exceedingly slo^v, rossib].y because the ^'■ear vas so sunless and cold. 

 In Seritenber last, the peduncle bore one pedicellate flov'er betv/een 

 the tv'o bracts at its tor, and at the end of December, the second 

 flov/er on the peduncle, developed from the axil of one of the brccts, 

 and pIso mth a short bracteate redimcle and a pedicel of its a'/n, 

 V7as sti?! in very irarae ture bud. ^-y sketdh (Fig. 131 ) represents.- a 

 PTOvrth of the tilent in this state, with the decayed flov/er omitted. 



T~ "T? tJ. 



- • ■■" '--rov'n 

 (To be continued.) 



Gsrd. Ohron. HI. 8'^: 538. 1928. 

 (Continued from pa{^e 266.) 



13.— DACTYLOPSIS, N. E. 3r. 



IH'.'arf succulent perennial, forming clumps, very pulp^''. Leaves 

 tV:'o or three to each growth, alternt^te, terete, ver^^ stout, v.-ith 

 lari^e, tubulr-r sheaths clasping one another closely end concealing 

 the short stem, soft and pulry, dot] ess, v/ithering completely and 

 disa^pe'^^rin'' vhen at rest, ^lovrers terminal, solitrry, sessile. 

 Calyx produced above its union ^'ith the ovpry into a short tube, 

 ecually 5-lobed above. Fetrls a short tube, nur.erous in several 

 sernes, the inner (staminodes?) concealing the stcanens, linear, 

 sti"ff, united into a tube at the base ana arising in the angle '.here 

 t'^e cal;^rx: unites I'.'ith the ova-j'-. Stamens numerous, erct, in 4 

 series, arisins- from the tube of the corolla and not exserted from 

 it. Stigmas 5, subrilate, pcnte; style none. *^V':ry half-superior, 

 5-ce''led; rlacentas axile; ovules numerous in each cell. Capsule 

 hpT -^-sur^erj or , su-b-dobose, vjith the 5 sutures raised into grooved 

 ridges on the tor>, 5-celled; valves deltoid, with the expandin-- 

 keels contiguous et the lov/er part and these forming the cell- 

 partitions, more or less diverging at the aricel prrt, pnd there 

 be^rin-^ bro?d, membranous, marginal v.ln s or flats that are united 

 in rairs between each pair of valves; cells open, without cell-wings 

 or tubeT'cles; the central axis ends in 5 short, hard r-. ys nrrrnged 

 in a small stcr; these rays ma 3'' nossibly be abbreviated cellpartit- 

 tions, as e^ch ve-.y ^rised from betv.'een the bases of a pair of ex- 

 panding-keels, end occur in other genera. Seeds very small, meny 

 of there i'ti eech cell, comnressed, ellipsoid, s mev;h&t pointed^at 

 each end, and with a minute ninnel at one end, smooth.-- N.S.Br. 

 in The Gardeners* Chronicle, 1985, Vol. IXXVIII, p. 413; and in 

 Phillprs' Cxen. of S. Afr., TPl. Pi., p. 244. 



Species 1, D. difitpt?, V, S. Br., a nrtive of South i^frics. 



The n?me is derived from the Greek, dactjrlos, e finger, and 

 opsis, pprearance or likeness, in allusion to the finger-like leaves 

 of the plant. 



The very rem^Tkable plant thst constitutes this genus is dis- 

 tinguished from all others of the group, not only by its a-^peartnce, 

 but by its ver3r stout rnd very pulry alternate leaves, which are 

 absent or completely/ withered when the plr nt is at rest; by its 

 petals beinp- remprk^'bly stiff and united at the bese into e tube, 



