Oudtshoorn division • In a dry velley eX Cango, 1,900 feet a- 

 bove sea-level. Bolus 11907, ^ebra '^idingS ^oerers in i^^erb. Bolus 

 17177. 



The flowers of this species are rosy according to a note on the 

 label of Bolus T1907. 



III. — Leaves sub-terete or probably flattened or concave on the 

 face; flowers white. 



15. — C. nodiflorum, L. Bol. in S. Afr. Gard., 1927, pp. 526 and 

 327, and 1928, p. 84, t. 34. _ M. nodiflorum, Linn., Spl i'l. ed. 1, 

 p. 480, Haw., ^bs., p. 118, ^'-isc. Nat., p. 54, "^ynop., p. 250, and 

 Rev. 166; Dc., Pi, Grass,, t. 88; Sibth. and ^m., , ^1, Graeca., t. 

 480; Cusin et Ansberaue, ^erb. ^l. France, "^ol, LK, t, 50; Fiori 

 et Paol,, Ic. Fi. Ital., v. 122; Reichenb., Fl. Gern. , Vol. XXIV, 

 t. 156; Coste, Fl. Frsnce, VqI. II, p. 122; S. xifr. Gard., 1927, 

 p. 281, f, 9E; Berber, ^-es und -i^ort, , p, 41. 



Not common in South Europe, North Africa, Arabia, Persia, Bpiu- 

 chisten, Kurdistan, Iledeira and the G^ngries, here it is probably 

 a native, and as it seems scerce^in South -ri-frice^ (from whence I 

 have seen srecimens from Little Namequaland, r-'.t "-'alle -^^raal, •'^illans 

 17906; Vfin Rhynsdorp division; Eenkokerboom, Schlechter 11068; and 

 Cape Peninsula, "'olley Dod 2106, 3666; it has probably been introduced 

 there, as it has been also into California. According to -^iton it 

 was in cultivation in 1739, 



16. — G. neglectum, N. E. Br, — Plrnt apparently about 4-6 inches 

 high, glabrous, papulose. Branches erect, terete, 1-lg lines thick. 

 Leaves alternate, ascending, incurved, 4-9 lin s long and 1 line 

 thick (dried), sub-terete or porbably sli^h ly flattened or hannel- 

 led dovn the face, obtuse. _ Gyme^ terminal, lt-2|- inches in diameter, 

 3-9 flowered, bracteate. -i^'edicels 1-2 lines long. Gal;x unequally 

 5-lobed; ovary nart hemispherical, 4-4^ lines in diameter; the longer 

 lo'es 3-4 lines long, with leaf-like tips. Corolla probably 10-12 

 lines in diameter; petals of the dried flower about -4-4A lines in 

 diameter; petals of the dried flower about 4-4| lines long and i- 

 line brosd, apparently white. 



Worcester division: Near Worcester, Cooper 1660, 1745. 



17.— C. I.^xv/ellii, L. BqI. in S. ^fr. Gard,, 19?8, p. 84, name 

 only,. It may be a synonym of one of the abo«e species. 



18.— C. V^iimaniae, L. Bol, in S. ^fr. Ggrd. 1928, p. 84, f. 33. 



South Africa*, "''ithout precise locality, but probably from '^e 

 Aer" ex. L, Bolus. 



N. S. BroVi?n 

 (To be continued.) 



MESffi^RYANTH ElvIUl.I . 



Gard. Chron. HI. 84^ 253. 1928. 

 (Continued from page 212.* 



Owing to the unscruruloi^s manner in which the usnal courtesy 

 and code of honour maintained among scientific workers has been dis- 

 cared, rnd the way results of my own investigotions are being per- 

 sistently published elsewhere, in spite of protest, for the purpose 

 of claiming priority of authorship for name combinations that must 



