: st^ecimen) between %keis and Klein i'-arasberg, -^earson 8,815 

 Ganas, Schinz 920, ^range -"^iver, ^teingrover 113, 



19, — C. sesslliflorum, N. E. B^, — Annual, coarsely papil- 

 late, Brenches prostrate, divaricate, ^-eaves or>posite, li-li 

 inch long, 3^-6 lines broad, lanceolate, narrov/ed belov/ into a pet- 

 iole, subacute or obtuse. Fiov;ers solitary, perhaps at first ermin- 

 al, but by the development of a branch become axillary, or in forks 

 of the stems, on pedicels up to 6-7 lines long, Calyx unequally 

 5-lobed; lobes 3-6 lines long end 2-3 lines broad, subspathulate 

 or leaf -like, tv/o of them longer than the other, spree ding much be- 

 yond the retels. Corolla 6»e lines in diameter; petals in about 1 

 series, acute, light yellow. Stamens about 20, in one series, lax, 

 erectly spreading, with their filaments dilated at the base in a 

 subglobose or disk-like manner, yellow, Stigjnas 5, Cy^jry evidently 

 nearly superior, depressed . Fruit about 5 lines in diameter, acu- 

 tely 5-angled or ridged on the top, purcle. 



Kesemb. sessiliforum, Ait. Hort. K^v/. ed. 1, ^ol. II, p. 193 

 (1789): ^-aw. %s. 116, -isc^ ^at. A6, Synop. 247 and Kev., v, 158, 

 Sond. in "l. Cap,, p. 454; Bererer, ^^s, und tort., 37; Britton in 

 Journ. 3ot., 19i7, n. 69; N. E. Bp. in Journ. Linn, 3oc,, Vol. ^V 

 p. 134. ' ' - 



South Africa* Locality unknown: introduced into cultivation 

 by Kasson in 1774. 



The above description is compiled from a drawing of the plant 

 by Simon Taylor, made probably about 1777 or 1'77B. and preserved 

 in the British IJuseum Herbarium; see »^ournal of Botany, as above 

 quoted. 



All that has hitherto been knovm of this plant is that -^iton 

 placed it among those having yellow flowers and described it as 

 follows 5 — "Lgpyes flat, spathulete and together v/ith the stems 

 papulose; ^branches divaricate; flowers sessile, i^^lowers July and 

 August, ^'^^ative of the Cace of Good Hope. Mr. ^r. i-^asson. Intro- 

 duced^ ,1774, " 



Hth the exception that the drawing does not represent the flo- 

 wers as sessile, it agrees with Ai ton's description. But viewed froDi 

 above as they nestle among the leaves thej'' might appear to be ses- 

 sile, and there can be little doubt that the drawing is correctly 

 named, Hgyjorth states that he never sa\v this species, so that 

 it proably died out of cultivation. 



The dilated, subglobose base of the filaments of the stamens 

 is a very remarkable character, and I refer this plant to Cryophy- 

 tura with some doubt, but until rediscovered, nothing more can be 

 done with it, 



N. E. Brown 

 (To be continued.) 



MSSEI ."BRYANTHEIvIUM. 

 Card. Chron, HI. 84^ 211. 1928. 

 (Continued from page 192, ) 



17.— GR'OPHYTUI^, N. E. By. 



D.— FL0^7ERS RED. 



11,— C. Bprklyi, N. E. Br. ex L. Bqi, in 3. ^fr. Gerd., 

 1928, n. S3 and 84, f. 35. - I-, Barklyi , N. E. 3r. in Hook Ic. Pi. 

 Vol. XIX, t. 1820; Berger, ^-^s. und. Port,, 45. M. Bgrklyi, var. 



