the genus. Seeds scarcely'- 4-llne^ long, pale bro\m. 



y. I'^-erg&vet^e, Schvant., in J'^onastsscbr. f. J^kteenk, 1919, 

 nv. 55 and 56, vith figure, and 1921, p. 170, f. 1-5, -o-rg^^roderma 

 f-fergaretae, (bv error ^--aragartiae) N.E.Bp, in Thg Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, 1926, Vol. LXXIX, p. 268 and 269, t, 135. ^interanthus 

 Iv'Jaragaretae , Schvant. , in ^'-oilers Deutsche Gartner 2eitung, 1927, 

 T>-. 150-151, with fig.; L. Bol. in ^ourn. ^ot. ^oc. ^. ^f., 1927, 

 t. 2, f, 4, end ''es., n. 41, t. 15. 



Great NamsouelandJ Neer ^'armbad, growing among ouartzite 

 stones, Dinter, 5, 174. Bushmanland- towards i^ella. toie divans. 



The adult, na tive-grovm, living plants of this species, for 

 which I have to thank "^r, I. ^. ^ole ^vans, are very different in 

 arrearance from the young plants I have hiterto seen, and v/hich were 

 raised in Europe, "j^ese old plants have their leaves much shrivel- 

 ed, on account of the great drought to Vifhich they have been su- 

 Jected during the bast few years, but even when in proper growth 

 after a supply of rain, it is evident that they would be very cro- 

 wded, 1^'or want of knowledge of its flowers end fruit, I had wrongly 

 referred this plant to -"J-rgyroderma , because, having to place it 

 somewhaere, thf=- vegetative characters appeared best to accord with 

 that genus, and the flowers had not then been described. 



aiBBAEUl;!, Haw. 



G, ?''arlothii, N, E. Bp. — Growths, when at rest, obliquely 

 ovo5d, something like those of G. gibbosum in form, but smeller, 

 and the leaves less uneoual, 12-15 lines long, composed of two un- 

 ciupl or sub-equal leaves united for 3-4 lines at the base; when 

 the leaves are unenual, the free part of the larger lest is 7-10 

 lines long, trigonous -ovoid, slightly compressed and bluntly keeled 

 at the apical part, obtuse; the smaller leaf being 1-2 lines shor- 

 ter in the specimen seen, and under cultivation the leaves are 

 mostly sub-eoual ; v:hen at rest the leaves are pressed together, when 

 in active growth they are ascending-spreadin^; surface smooth, 

 glabrous, green, or under natural conditions "yellow and brown," 

 according to I'iirloth. Pedicels compressed and more or less 2-edged, 

 glabrous. Calyx 6-lobed, glabrous; lobes about 2 lines long, ovhte, 

 two of them slightly keeled, '^orolla 9-12 lines in diameter, ex- 

 panding in sunshine, petals in one series, 4-5 lin es long, •*- 

 line broad, linear, obtuse or notched at the^apex, magenta -purple. 

 Stamens and stam.inodes about l-g- line long. •Stigmas 6, spreading, 1 

 line long, plumosely subulate, acute. *^very partly superior, broad- 

 ly dome-shaped on the ton. 



Ceres division: North of J^^aroo ^oort, i'ferloth 13,157^. 



■'^e only knoi"n glabrous species with v/hich this can be con- 

 fused is G. gibbosuja, from v/hich the smaller size and much less 

 unequal leaves ere readily distingished it. 



PUNGTILLARIA N. E. Br. 



In the Zeitschrift f. Sukkulentenkunde, 1927, pp. 22-23, the 

 apecies^of this genus have been referred to fleiospilos, K. '^. ^r., 

 by ->T. ^chv^entes, who states that the fruit is alike in both genera. 

 This is, however, a mistake, for in ^leiospllos Bolusii and f, 

 simu.lans no tubercle is present at the opening to the cells, v/hile 

 in the fruits of all the species of Punctillaria that I have ex- 

 amined there are very evident tubercles, and this, together with a 



