211 obtusifoLlum, L. ^ol. in Ann. Bol. ^erb.^ Vol. ^, r. 79. 



Little ^Vmaqualand. Hondelip Ba^'-, i^srkly end I'illans. 



This plant has the stoutest stems and largest lesves of all 

 the known snecies in any ^enus of this order of plants. -i-he square 

 stems attain to an inch in thickness, and the leaves up to as much 

 as 15 inches long and 6 inches bro-^d, and are very thick. Sir -^"iensy 

 Barkly, v;ho discovered this fine st^eciep, informed me that the in- 

 habitants of the region v/here it grov/s squeesed the water out of 

 its leaves and used it for washing and drinking purposes in tiDies 

 of drought. 



II. — I-eaves narrov;ly spathulate or linear-spathulate; flov/ers 

 rosy or colour unknown. 



12. — C. inachabense, N. E. Br. ^ M, inachabense, Sngl. Bot. 

 J"ahrb., Vol. XLIII, p. 192 and 194, f. 5. 



"^eat J^Tamaqualand: Sand-dunes at Inachab, ^inter 952. 



13, — C. paulum, N. E, Bj., — Plant in flov/er less than an inch 

 high, with a few perfectly nrostrate stms 1-4 inches long and up to 

 1 line thick, rediatfng from a central root, whic'^i is not more than 

 1 l"'n& thick, and epnarently hot descending more than 2-3 inches 

 into the ground. The stems are terete, with internodes li-5 lines 

 long, minutely papulose, green ior purplish, bearing several very 

 short axillary leafy branchlets 3-6 lines long scattered along them. 

 Leaves onfosite or some on the flowering part alternate, small, 

 those on the main stems 5-9 lines long, 1-2|- lines broad and '4-1 

 line thick near the apex, those on the br^^nchlets smaller and crov/ded,. 

 flattish, usually spat':ulete, obovete to elliptic-oblong, shortly 

 petiolate, sub-acute or obtuse, faintly channeled down the face, 

 slightly or indistinctly keeld on the back, minutely papulose, 

 green, tinted with red. -^^'lowers in lax, terminal , few-flowered ir- 

 regular cymes, or on weak plant solitary 

 212 and terminal. I'edicels about 1 line long. Calyx unequally 5-lobed 

 nearly doTAm to its union v.dth the ovary, paulose with much larger 

 papulae than those on the stem and leaves; ovary-part heiiaispherical, 

 sub-globose in every young fruit, 2| lines in diameter; lobes 3-4 

 lines long, the outer about 1 line bro^ d andlinear-oblong, the 

 inner 2-3| lines broed, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, and with bro&d, 

 membranous margins, all obtuse. Corolla apparently not more than 

 4-5 lines in diameter; petals numerous, in 3-4 series, united below 

 into a tube about 1^ line long with the free part about 2 lines 

 long and i line broad, linear, obtuse, v.hite, or very pale pink at 

 the anical pert. Stamens arising from the corolla-tube in about 4 

 surier-posed series, the unper at the mouth of the tube. Stigms.s 

 4-5, erect, 2^ lines long,' filiform, apparently pals yellow, *^ary 

 partly superior, 4-5-celled, with the conical upper part slightly 4- 

 5-angled end minutely pa'ulose, the papulae being a very triking 

 character on the young purplish-tinted fruit; placentas axile. 

 Capsule v/hen closed sub-globose, '^f lines in diameter, vdth very 

 prominent sutures and 4-5 valves and cells; when expanded ^bout 5 

 lines in diameter; pallid within, structure as for the genus. Seeds 

 § line in diameter, compressed, circular in outline, tuberculate, 

 dark grey or fuscous when dry, blackish hen v;etted. 



Riversdale Division^ In grassy meadows near the Vet ^"^iver, 

 Muir 4145. 



14.— C. Rogersii, L. Bol. in 3. Afr. Card., 1928, p. 84, 



