J28 with the longer lobes 8-9 lines long, and the three shorter lobes 

 with membrenous ruErgins. Gorolle li-2 inches in diameter, opening 

 in the afternoon, scented; petals in 3-4 series, 5&9 lines long, 

 f-1 line brood, linear, subacute or obtuse, white. Stamens in a 

 column about 4-4^ lines long and 5-6 lines in diameter, with the 

 outer spreading av;ay from the rest; filaments white, anthers yel- 

 low. Stigmas 5, about ^ inch long, exceeding the stamens, subu- 

 late, green. Ovary conical and stoutly 5 -ridged on the top. 'Cap- 

 sule shortly and broadly obconic, about 7 lines in diameter v\±Len ex- 

 panded; exrianding-keels closely parallel or nearly contiguous, v-fith 

 narrow marginal vdngs; cell-vrings rudimentary. 



y-. mitratum, L. Boi. in ^i. Po. of ^. -fr., ^^ol. VII, t. 274, 

 not of Schwantes, nor l^iesembryantheraum mitratum, i^Iarl. 



Little Namaaualand^ On hills about six miles north-east of 

 Oograbies Poort, Pillans 4,690. 



Although figured as being M, mitratum, Schvrant., this plant 

 conspicuously differs from that species by its larger vegetative 

 cones, the much more slender and very long and peduncle-like lovrer 

 part of the flov;ering branch, longer pedicels and much larger and 

 differently-coloured flowers, 



3. — K. mitratum, ^chvjant. in '^eitschr. f. SuVkulent, 1926, p. 

 182, and 1928, p. 321; not of L, Bol. — A shrublet about 1-2 feet 

 high, x*.-ith vegetative and flovvering grovrths intermingled on the 

 branches. Vegetating branches 6-7 lines thick, with very short, 

 crowded internodes 1-2 lines long, aod the flov/ering branches a- 

 bout 3 lines thick, v/ith internodes *-l inch long, dark brov.Ti, 

 '■'^hen at rest ?> vegetative one is represented as about 2|- inches Ipng 

 and about an inch__^thick at the base, and a flov/ering cone about 1*- 

 Ig inch long and £ inch thick. Leaves not represented nor des- 

 crebed. Pedicels represented as less than half-an-inch long, and 

 as arising from the axil of the one of the old leaves of a flov/er- 

 ing 'Cone, but the flovjer is described as forcing "its way out through 

 a slit at the side" of the cone. Oalyx 5-lobed, three of the lobes 

 v;ith membranous margins. Corolla represented as about 4 inch in 

 diameter; petals linear, white at the base, pale pink at the upper 

 pest. 



Mesembryanthemum mitratum, ^-arl . , in '^r. Roy, ^oc. ^. -^fr. , 

 Vol. II, p. 35, t. 1, f. 4 (1910), and i'l. ^. ^fr. , *^ol..I, p. 205, 

 t. 51, f . G. ^ 



Little Namoueland* Sandy deserts east of Port Nolloth, -t^lston, 

 in Herb. I-^arloth 4,690. 



This sriecies is unknov-n to me and evidently it is not the same 

 as the plant figured by Mrs. ^qIus under the name of i^-. mitratum, 

 its cone being smaller, flowering in a different in colour. 



N. E. Brov.Ti 

 (To be continued.) 



MESEvIBRYANTHEJAUM . 

 Card. Chron. HI. 86 : 248. 1929. 

 (Continued from page 228.) 



MITROPIiYLLUI.: , Schwa nt . 



48 4«-- I-, proximum, Schv;ant. in ^eitschr. f. -^kiculent,, 1926, 

 p. 182.-- A shrublet 8-12 inches high (Fig. 122), which branches 2- 

 3 lines thick, terete, slightly thickened at the nodes and with in- 



