84 margin, and with a stout and very conspicuous hump or compressed 

 gibbosity |--| line long, spreading horizontally from the base. of 

 each. Corolla apparently 3-4 lines in diameter; tube about I4 

 line long; petals about 1^ line long, white, sometimes tinted with 

 lilac at the t-'^^s. Stamens fe^-^, 1-1-| line long. Stigjaps 4-5, 

 erect, p'nout f-line long. Ovary half-superior, 4-5-angled, with 4- 

 5 cells; Placentas axile. 



C. nodiflorum. L. BqI. in 3. Afr. Gsrd., 1928, p. 84, f. 34, as 

 to No. 3 only. 



Piquetberg Division J Eendekuil, ^feiughan ^rown. 



ITie gibbosities on the back of the calyx-lobes are remarkable, 

 and unlike anything I have yet seen in this group. 



C, nanun, N. E. 3r, — Annuel, 1-3 inches high, branching from 

 the base, coarsely panillate with glittering v/etery papillae, glab- 

 rous. Branches 1-3 inches long, -^eaves opposite, petiolate, 4-2 

 inches Ion/?, i-1 inch broad, spa thulate -ovate or rhomboid-ovate, 

 scute or acuminate, flat, more or less undulated, rather abruptly 

 nsrrov/ed belov; the middle into e. petiole 4-I inch long and 2-4 inches 

 broad, thick and fleshy, v;ith a prominent midrib beneath, and much 

 more coarsely papillate on the lovrer than on the upper surface, v/ith 

 the papillae i-^ line in diameter, green or reddish. ^lov:ers soli- 

 tarT'" or 2-5 in a cyme, terminal. Pedicels 1 line or less long, 

 I4-2 lines thick. Calyx produced above the ovrrj'" into a tube about 

 1 line Ions, sub-eoually 5-lobed above, covered 'with large, glitter- 

 ing papillae i-4 line in diameter, ovary, part sub-globose, 3§-5 

 lines in diameter; lobes apparently erect, 2-3 lines long and about 

 the same in breadth, sub-orbicular, obtusely rounded at the apex. 

 Corolla apparently not more than 6-8 lines in diameter; petals 

 united belov/ into a tube 2 lines long, wit:, the free part I4-2 lines 

 long, with very slenderly filiform-linear, lilac-pink at the apical 

 part, white at the basal part. Stamens in several series, the lon- 

 ger about 2 lines long, creamy-white. Stigmas 4-5, erect, v/ith re- 

 curved tjps, 2 lines long, filiform, white. Ovary half-superior, 

 4-5-celled. Capsule half-superior, 3-3^ lines in diameter, 4-5- 

 angled, with 4-5 raised and gaping sutures, v;ith blackish-brown 

 edges. 



I-^lmesbury Division? Region of Saldanha ^ey, ^^ughan Brown. 



This species seems to be allied to the giants of the genus, 

 C. Berkleyi, C. grandiflorum and C. grandifolium, but is very much 

 smaller than any of them. 



C. Bij'iiae, N, E. Bp, — ■^'•nnual, about 6 inches high, glabrous, 

 paT^ulose. Stems several from the base, erect, cymosely branching 

 at the ton, apparently somewhat angular, with internodes ;|-1 inch 

 long, 1-li line (or perhaps more w-hen alive) thick, witi distinct 

 v/etery papulae. Leaves opposite on the stems, alternate on the 

 flowering part, f-2 inches long, 2-8 lines broad, 1 line thick, 

 the lower more or less spa thulate-ovate or spathulate-lanceolate, 

 cuneately tppering into a '-etiole, the upper more or less cuneately- 

 lenceolate or linenr-lanceol^te, obtuse or acute, slightly channel- 

 led above, keeled beneath, minutely papulose under a lens, green, 

 often reddish at the edges, -^^lov/ers usually alternate and opposite 

 a leaf along the branches of the cyme, i^edicels 2-5 lines long,. 

 Calyx acutely 5-angled on the ovary-part, somewhat unequally 5- 

 lobed, minutely'' papulose; narrowly spathulate, obtuse,. Corolla 

 only seen in vdthered condition, with the tube 1-^-line long, and the 



