248 ternodes i-1 inch long, glabrous, dark violaceous-grey. Vegeta- 

 tive and flowering growths intermingled on the branches, and the 

 main or termina] cones clustered among the lateral cones at the ends 

 of the branches and sub-sessile, or supported upon an internode 2- 

 6 lines long. Cones 14-3, (rarely 4) inches long, 5-9 lines thick 

 at the base; free leaves 4-3 inches long, 4-7 lines broad at the 

 base, thence tapering to an acute or sub-acute apex, concave, flat 

 or slightly convex on the face, obtusely keeled on the beck, light 

 green, minutely papulose as in the other species. Fiov/ers and fruit 

 unknovm. 



Mesembryanthmum proximum, N, E, Bp, in Journ. Linn. 3oc, Vol, 

 XLV, t). 117, t. 5, Figs. 3 and 4; Gard. Chron., 1921, Vol. I-CX, 

 p. 223, Fig. 95. Conophyllum proximum, -Schv/ant, in -^eitschr, f. 

 Sukkulent 102^, p. 3'"2. 



little namaqualand: "'ithout precise locality f ^earson. 



Fig. 117 represents a branch of the type plant v/hen first im- 

 ported. Fig, 12 represents a similar cluster of rowths eighteen 

 months after the brench bearing them had rooted, both figures of 

 natural size, which clearly show how very different it is from M, 

 grande, which has been mistaken for it in 3. iifrica. 



5. — M, dissitum, Schwant, in -^eitschr. f. "^ukkulent, 1926, 

 p. 182 (Fig. 123). — A shrublet 12-18 inches high, with vegetative 

 and flowering growths on the same branches, v.'hich are permanent. 

 Branches l§-2 lines thick, or thicker under cultivation, with inter- 

 nodes 1-2^ inches long, and a distinct and long internode alv^'ays 

 separating the main cones from the free paris of leaves from which 

 they arise, glabrous, reddish-brov;n, becoming dark grey with age. 

 ^^hen at rest the vegetative^cones are 1-2 inches long, 3^-5 inches 

 thick; the free leaves are i-2 inches long, 4-6 lines broad at the 

 base, thence tapering to an acute apex, flat or slightly concave 

 above, obtusely keeled or rounded on the back; both pairs of leaves 

 are glabrous and in their earliest stages minutely crystalline- 

 papulose, with longer pnd acuter papulae along the edges at the tips, 

 which at length disappear, green, or v;ith reddish tips, Fiov/ers 

 solitary, terminal, becoming lateral in fruit. I'edicels about 6 

 lines long, papulose. Calyx:-lobes 5-8 lines long. Corolla ls-l| 

 inch in diameter, expanding in the middle of the day; petals numerous 

 in 3-4 series, linear, sub-acute, light yellov^',. Stamens about 2^- 

 3 ] ines lone, at first collected into a cylindric column; white, 

 v/ith pale yellov/ anthers. Stigmas 5, about 3 lines long, slenderly 

 subulete. Oypry raised end 5-ridged on the top. '^apsue v/hen ex- 

 panded about 10-11 lines in diameter, with 5 valves and cells; ex- 

 panding keels flat, diverging nearly or Tjuite from the base, with 

 the inner edges toothed and with rather narrow marginal v/ings ; 

 cells somewhat acutely roofed with membranous cell-wings. L, Boll 

 in Fl. Pi. of 3. ^fv,, Vol. VII, t. 272. 

 !49 Mesembrvfinthemum dissitum, N. E. Br., in ^'ourn. ^inn. ^oc. 

 Bot. Vol. -CLY^ ^. ]14, t. 5, Fig, 9, and .t. 6, Fig, H. Conophy- 

 ] lum dissitum, Schwant. in ^eitschr. f. -^kkulent, 1928, p. 32. 



little Naiianualands -^mong bushes on fthe upper slopes of hills 

 above ^aunabis; Pearson, 6,116, 



This very distinct soecies is easily recognised by its long 

 internodes. Fig. 123 represents a rooted cutting in its resting 

 stage, from v;hich it will be noted that the central cone is formed 

 at the end of a long internode, 



6, — !vl, cognatum, ^chwent., in •^eitschr. f. ^kkulent, 1926, 



