128 in 

 3oc 



n Bothrlie, Vol. I., r. 145; Schoenl, in Tp-^ns. 3. ..fr. Ihil. 



oc, Vol. K., r. 37, t. 2, f. D. H. Volclraneri, Haw. Obs., 

 p. 426, and Rev. 159. M. lanceolfj tum, ^^av;. ^vlisc. Ifet., p. 45, 

 Sjno-r., 245, and Hev. 15, including varieties* Berger, ^^es. und 

 Port., ^, "^5. M. crvstallorhsnes, Eckl. end ^eyh. Snum. , p. 322; 

 SoLm DycV res.,% 6C, _f. 2. 



South ^' frier. : Uitenhoge ""ivision* 2iV7arthops ^"^iver, -''eyher 

 107", 2523, 2625. Albany'" Division: near <^p hams town, '^^o ^^an. 

 Herb. Austr. Afr., 1875. Cpadock division; ne^r ^•-ortlmer, ■'^^ensit 

 in Herb. Bolus 9305. 



Introduced into cultivation "by I'^sson in 1795. 



2,-- G. ^urcriellii , I'^. E, 3r, — K-worth gives the f ol'' 6v;ing 

 description of this plant, v/hich is at present unknovm*. — Root 

 sub-biennial,, '^ranches suberectl3f decunbent, paniculate, v/ith the 

 brancbes scarcel3'" spreadinip; and rather somewhat decurn.bent-asc ending. 

 Leaves ovate, ^-etiolate, the uppermost subalternate, lanceolate, 

 glitterin^-parillate, especially beneath, ^'lov.'ers paniculate, siaall, 

 sessile, w''ite. Described from a plant raised by the traveller 

 ^'\ Burche"'! fron seeds he collected in South -Africa. 



-'esetnb. sessnlifloru" vrr. albioia, ^avj. 3up^l. ^1, ^ucc, p. 93, 

 and Hev., p. 158; N. S. B. ±n Journ. L^nn. ^oc., "^ol. ^LV_, p, 134. 



Greaff ^einet Division* b^'- the Syndeys Hiver, near i-onkey 

 T'ord, "Burchell. 



ITo srecimen or drawing of this riant appears to hve been re- 

 served. BerP'er (''-es. und ^ort., r^. 34) rlaces it as a synonyn of 

 -'. clandestinum, but it :' s obviously/ quite distinct pedicillate 

 flo'-'ers -and different leaves. 



3.-- G. clandestinum, K. E. ^r. , not of L. Bolus. — I'his small 

 and r-ther insigni-^iicant specnes is ^■■ell described pnd figured by 

 Salm DycV and cor^ied b7/ Berger es quoted below, but the fruit has 

 no't- been described, so 1 add the follov/ing details concerning it. 



Car'sule 2-2i- lines in diemeter vrben closed, sub-globosely 

 riear-s^ered, hal'f-surerior , v/ith 5 valves and cells; v.hen expanded 

 about 3f lines in diameter, mth horizontally spreading valves, 

 entirely pallid v'ithin, the structure as for the genus, wit'n the 

 nembrf^nous flaps transparent. Seeds less than -|-line lone, ovoidly 

 D-shap_ed, very minutelv sub -tuber culf^te, brovm. 



^-. clandestinum, ^"-av/. in Phil. ^"-s\g. , 1926, p. 129; Saira Dyck, 

 T'es.& 60, f. 4.; Berger i%s. und ^'ort., n. 34, f. 5. I'^. alsinifoliuin, 

 Don in Lond. Hort. Brit. ed. 1830, p. 4f6. 



South Africa, precise locality unknovn. I hrve only seen culti- 

 vated si^ecimen^ of this plant. 



N» S. Brown 

 (to be continued.) 



I.IE3E 3RYA1TTHSI.IUI.:. 

 Gs.rd. Ohron. HI. 84* 153. 1928. 

 (Continued from page 128.) 



17.— ORYOPIIYTDlvT, N. E. Br. 



L53 4, — C. conjectura, ^L E. Bj.^ __ C. clandestinum, L. BqI. in 



S. Afr. Gr..rd., 1927, pp. 326 and 327, f. 11, 3. I'Ot -. clandestinum. 

 Hew. 



Of this species I'rs. BqIus gives no descrrl rtion, and figures 



