L53 Leaves in a large tuft or rosette, flat, broadly lanceolate, 4-5 

 inches long and 1-lr inch broad, narro--ed to a sessile or sub- 

 petiolate base, obtuse, vavy, glabrous, papillate. Flov;ering bran- 

 ches arising from under the rosette of leaves, 4-8 inches long, 2- 

 3 lines thicV, two-edged, ascending, sometimes 1-flowered, but usu- 

 ally branching in a cymose manner and bearing 3-9 flov/ers, and 

 having ooposite leaves up to 1^ inch long, and small ovate, obtuse, 

 O'-irosite or sub-opposite bracts 3-6 lines long. Pedicels 4-9 lines 

 long, stout, Gal^rs papillate, , produced above its union with the o- 

 vary into a distinct tube about 1^-2 lines long;, ovary part half- 

 globose, 6-7 lins in diameter; lobes 3-4 lines long, 2-3 lines 

 broad, ovate, obtuse, vrith or v/ithout a dorsal point, t'etels very 

 numerous, apparently 7-0 lines long, united into a distinct tube 

 at the base. Stamens not ver" evident in the flower examined, but 

 arising from the corolla-tube, ^vary apparently nearly superior, 

 but too much crushed to admit of the determination of its stigmas 

 or cells. 



". grandifolium, Schinz, in Bull. Herb, ^oiss, "Vol. V, td. 79 

 (1897). 



Grer-t Maraaoualand: Wear Rehoboth, ^leck 241--^. 



The above description is made from the t77-pe specimen kindly 

 lent to me by Dr. ^ans Schinz. 



N. S. Brown 

 (To be continued, ) 



Gard. Chron. HI. 84: 192. 1928. 

 (Continued from page 153.) 



17.— GRYOPHY'TUIvI, N. E, Br. 



92 9. — C. arenarium, M, E. Br, — An annual, 1-9 inches high, 

 branching from the root. Branches alternate, aT^parently 2-edged 

 on the youn^rer parts, roughish, with pointed papillae. Leaves al- 

 ternate on the branches, opposite et the very base, ^-1 inch long, 

 2^-5 lines broad, oblong or ovate, (dried), rounded at the apex, 

 fleshy, labrous, apparently smooth, but nerhaps minutely papillate 

 v;hen alive. Flowers solitary and or^posite the lerves along the 

 branches (not axillary), pedicellate. I^edicels S-? lines long and, 

 together with the calyx, papillate lik the branches, ^aljx produced 

 above its union with the ovary into a tube li-line long, unequally 

 5-lobed above; the two longer lobes leafy- l|--3 lines long and 1 

 line broad, narroxvly oblong, obtuse, the others shorter, broader and 

 membranous,. Petals (indried flowers) scarcely exceeding the caljrx- 

 lobes, 2i-3 lines long, 1/3- line broad, cuneately linear, rounded 

 at the apex, yellow (ex. Pearson), probably united into a short 

 tube at the base, but from dried material I have been unable to be 

 sure of this. Stamens numerous, erect, nearly or quite as long as 

 the petals, yellov;. Stigmas 4-5, scarcely 1/2 line long, oblong, 

 obtuse. Ovary more than half-superior, 4-5-celled; placentas axile. 

 Capsuel (closed), 2-2i lines in diameter, with 4-5-valves and cells; 

 ■ valves 1 line long, whitish, their expanding-keels closely contiguous 

 into one central keel, and their broad marginal v;ings erect or in- 

 flexed; cells open, ^o tubercles. Seeds several, but not ver^- numer- 

 ous in a cell, minute, smooth, v;hite. 



lire-'t Nrmaqualand: Klein Knygs ^•'ountains, Dinter 3,177 (type 



