227 thickening up\vards, compressed, papulose, ^alj'-x (only seen on a 



withered flower) sub-eauslly 5-lobed, with the ovary part very shal- 

 low and bro?d, and lobes 4-5 lines long, 2-|-3^ lines broad, prob- 

 ably larger then alive, oblong, obtuse, 3 of them vdth a short dor- 

 sal point. Corolla 2-2-| inches in diameter, expanding after noon; 

 petals in about 3 series, 9-12 lines long, about.4-1 line broad, 

 linear, v;hite, shining. Stamens about 2 lines long; filaments white; 

 anthers yellov/. Stigmas 5, subulate, about 1^ line long. Ovary 

 with 5 ridges on the flat top. Capsule when closed 5-51 lines in 

 diameter, very shortly and broadly obconic, with b valves and cells, 

 grey; when expanded about 8 lines in diameter; valves spreading 

 horizontally, deltoid; expanding-keels broad and flattish, elevated 

 at the inner edge, diverging from the base, vjlth incurved, awn- 

 like tips and broad membranous margins; cells somev/hat acutely 

 roofed with membranous cell-v;ings. Seeds nearly ^-line long. 

 Pear-shaped, smooth, light brown. 



I-eserabryanthemum nroximum, L. I^qI. in 2. -^fr. ^&rd., 1927, r, 

 239, Fig. 3, and Notes on I-'esemb. , I., p. 70, Fig. 3, not of '^<. E. 

 Br. 



little Namaoualandi On hills north of ^rafcfontein, Lilians 



So far as knov/n to me, this fine species stands alone among 

 those in this genus that have tall 

 £8 flowering stem in having its vegetative growths seated on the 



ground without internodes between the successi^re growths. It is in- 

 comprehensible how it could possibly have been mistaken either for 

 M. proximum, as it in no way agrees v;ith either my figure or des- 

 cription of that species, which bears its growths in clusters at 

 the ends of the branches. Fig. ng represents a ■»■ two growths from 

 a clump v.dth a flowering stem derived from a previous sessile cone 

 arising from between them, of which a portion is omitted from the 

 drawing. This flovjering stem is probably two or three years old, 

 its lov.'er part bears fruit, and the terminal part has a v/ithered 

 flov;er and tv/o flowering cones. 



Seedlings of this species have the cotyledons as presented at 

 Fig. lis C, and the succeeding stages as shovm in the same figure 

 at D-G; D and 'S represent seedlings of one year's grov/th preparing 

 to go to rest; F, a seedling at rest, but about to resume growth in 

 the second year; G, the same at a later date when forming a fresh 

 cone, and with the remains of the skin of the old cone i^) clinging 

 to it. These young cones are of a somewhat translucent light green, 

 and glitter as if covered with minute, watery papulae, but under a 

 lens the cells are seen to project as papulae only on the lobes, 

 elsewhere they do not project into distinct papulae. 



2.— M. Pillansii, N. E. Br.— Plant 12-16 inches high. Bran- 

 ches 5-6 lines thick, vdth the internodes on the vegetating parts 

 2-3 lines long, crowded, and on the parts about to flower longer 

 and up to 14 lines long, the vegetating and flowering parts inter- 

 mingled. Cones 2-4 inches long, 1-1^ inch thick at the base. Free 

 leaves 4-4^ inches long, 2/3-1 inch iDroad and l/3-i inch thick at 

 the base, thence tapering to a sub-acute point, very minutely papu- 

 lose. Flovrers solitary, terminal, the first one on a peduncle 4-5 

 inches ""ong and 2-2-^ lines thick (equivalent of the lower prrt of 

 the flowering branches in the other species) , with a pair of re- 

 duced leaves or bracts at its apex, from the axils of v/hich small 

 secondary flowering cones arise. Pedicel about 1§ inch long. Celjrx 



