: smpll difference in the marginal v;ings and the different leaves, 

 I heve consider'^d as being of sufficient importance to separate 

 them genericelly. In my original i.'S3. and keys, before -^ had 

 examined the fruits of Fleiospilos Bolusii and -F. simulands, I 

 had also tslaced these two species under i^unctillaria , and that is 

 why the genus Pleiospilos does not appeer in I'hillips' "^enera of 

 S. Afr. Fiov;eT"ing Flens for I has sent the 



!.!SS. of the genera published in that work too South -^-frica at least 

 a year before it was printed or ray final keys finished. But from 

 discoveries I have sence made, I think it probable that this and 

 one or two other fruit characters cannot aivays be accented as ab- 

 solute, for I find that the tubercle is present, rudimentary, or 

 absent in different specimens of Disphjrna australe, K. ^. -^r. , 

 and in different species undoubtedly belonging to the; seme section 

 of I-esenbryanthemum, it is also absent or present, "^o that if Plei- 

 osnilos end Fun^tillaria are hereafter united, then in accord with 

 the rules of nomenc"" ature , Fleiospilos, being the smaller genus, 

 m_ust be made a synonym of Functillaria , which I had ( in i«i3SS, ) 

 founded many months before ^ had a change to examine the fruits of 

 P. Bolusii and F. simulans , and it is therefore really the oldes 

 genus of the two as well as the largest. 



Schwsntes also states that P. compacta, N. lii. Br. {"^. compac- 

 tum, Ait.) is distinct from. i-. nobile, ^w. , but gives no reason 

 for their separation, nor any description by which thej can be i- 

 dentified, and I doubt very much if he has any knowledge of the 

 plant I feel sure if he has any knowledge of the plant I feel sure 

 is !.!. comractum, Ait., since it ouite accords with such description 

 as Aiton (and ^ryander in his i>i^S, ) gives, and has also long been 

 cultivated (T^robably for over one hundred years) in England as i^, 

 nobile. I have myself knovn^ the plant for over sixty years by that 

 name, for T first saw it in ^. ^^K ^■''^ Sg^jinders ' fine collection 

 about 1865. and as that collection contained some of the remnants 

 of Hfiworth s type of ^'•^. nobile, and I also many ti.mes sew the plant 

 in the collection of I.Ir. T. Cooper, -^t the same time forms of 

 P. magnipunctata are also in cultivation under the name of i''-. nobile. 



In -iryander's notes at the ^ritish ^%seiam, I find it recorded 

 that I-. comcactum flowered at ^'"-ew in November, 17R1, that its flow- 

 ers are yello'", and the "leaves as long end as thick, as a finger," 

 Dryander's La ting description of it, translated, reads as follows : 

 '*Sterc"less. Leaves connate, dotted, semi-terete, triquetrous and 

 somewhat reflexed at the apex, acute. S'lowers sessile; calyx sub- 

 cylindric, six-lobed." An this, except that he does not say that 

 the leaves are concave on the upr^er side, as ^^v/orth describes theiu 

 to be, v^ell agrees with the plant knovm as I-^. nobile. 



f^, compacta is not coramon, and to Judge from the utterly diff- 

 erent riant ^-rs. BqIus has figured, under the erroneous name of t, 

 compacta, - believe that the true t. compacta is unknovm in -"outh 

 Africa. See also -'-oilers Deutsche Gartner 2eitung, 1928, p. 400, 



P. sesquiuncialis K. E. Bp. This is the plant figured as P. 

 magnipunctata var. sesquiuncialis, L, Bol. in ^. "fr. %rd,, 1927, 

 p. 326, f. 13. There is no description, except that "The dots are 

 not so mar't^ed as t^ose of P. compacta, and the petals are narrower." 

 By ^. comnacta" ^"-ts . Bolus means P. ma^'-ipunctata , as it is evident 

 she does not know what P. comnacta is. But' the figure represents 

 a riant with a nair of short and thick leaves similar to those of 

 Pleiospilos Bolusii; they are about 1^^ inch long, l£> inch broad and 

 1-li inch thic-', according to the figure, obtuse at the apex and 



