free part of the r)etals 2 lines long, less than i line broad, 

 line?ir, obtuse, stated to be creamy v^ite, slightly tinted v/lth 

 T>ink at the tl^^s on the under-side. Stpmens in 4-5-series, v;hite. 

 Stiffitias 5, erect, 1 line long, filiform. Ovary h^lf-superior , 

 conical end 5-angled at the top, papulose, 5-celled. Capsule 2| 

 3 lines in diameter, when closed, 5-angled, of generic structure. 

 Seeds less than ^-line in diameter, comp'' essed, ^-shaped, minutely 

 tuberculate, brown, 



I-ossel Bay Division: Near ^^eat Brak -^"^iver, Mrs. D. van der 

 Bijl 44. 



'Allied to C. 5<ogersii, L. Bol. and ^. ''"^ilmaniae, L. Bol., 

 but v'ith brop'der leaves, end an angular calyx, which is not neerly 

 so cearsely papulose. 



N. E. Brown 

 (To be continued. ) 



MSSELvBRyAliTHEiylUM, 

 Gard. Chron. HI. 86: 38. 1929. 

 (Continued from page 84, Vol. LXXXV.) 



MONILARIA, Schv/ant. 



Dwarf, bushy, succulent plants, tv.-o to four inches high, 

 vdth crowded, erect, stout branches, constricted at the nodes into 

 short and often bead- or button-like joints. Leaves opposite, of 

 t-"X) kinds, and only one pair of each kind produced annually; the 

 first pair to ar^near when growth commences are rudimentary and some- 

 times scarcely more than a short, fleshjr sheath, with its semi- 

 circular lins closed together into a bag-like or globular body, 

 but by the grovith of the second pair of leaves the lips are pushed 

 anart and remain surrounding the base of the Joint formed by the 

 second pair, which ere long and nearly cylindrical, and more or 

 less flattened on the unper side, and very shortly united at the 

 base, ratiulose. Flowers solitary, terminal; pedicels long, pap- 

 illate, with a pair of rudimentar3'' leaves sheathing the base. 

 Calyx t^apulose or T>aT)illate, uneaually n-lobed down to its union 

 with the ovary, vrith the ovary-part shallow and convex beneath, 

 Petals numerous, erect in a column, or later becoming more or less 

 loose; filaments not bearded at the base, ^tigmas 5-7, stoutly 

 ovoid-subulate, acute. Ovsrj inferior, shallov;, 5-7-celled, vfith 

 5-7 suturel ridges on the flat top; placentas on the floor or outer 

 vrall of the cells. Capsule shallov/, very shortly and broadly oc- 

 conic, with ^-7 very prominent rnd thin suturrl ridges on the 

 flat top, and 5-7 valves and cells; valves reflexed or widely 

 snreadinp"; exnanding keels more or less widely diverging, broad 

 and flattish at the basal •oart, with the inner edges raised, end 

 vrith narrow marginal I'lings; cells shallov/, somewhat acutely roofed 

 vrith membranous cell-wings; no placental tubercle, j^eeds numerous 

 in each cell, ovoid, pointed at one end, smooth, — ^chwantes in 

 Gartenwelt, 1929, p, 69. 



Srecies 3; natives of Little ^''araaqualand and Van Shynsdorp 

 Division of ^outh -Africa and type of the genus is |/I. moniliformis. 



The name is derived from the Latin, monile, a necklace, in 

 allusion to the manner in v/hich the stems are' constricted into besd- 

 like Joints. 



The remarkable group of plants comprising this genus is among 

 those I intimated in The Gardeners' Chronicle, 1925, Vol. LX^vVIII, 



