72 dotted leaves. (Type, L. constricta, L. Bol,). 



Lsipoldtia. 



15, Stamens erect and conspicuous, collected Into a compact 



column or cone, surrounded by e few stsminodes not lon- 

 ger than themselves; petals not very slender; stamens 

 7-10; expanding-keels diverging, with rounded edges and 

 v;ith a large or v.ithout a terminal avm, wingless; cells 

 roofed v;ith cell-wings and v/ith a large placental tuber- 

 cle. (Type, 0. octojuge, N, E. B^, __ Lies, octojuge, 

 L. Bol.). Octopoma. 



Stamens inflexed °nd more or less concealed by very n\im- 

 erous steminodes much longer than themselves which sur- 

 round them in 3-4 series and are all inflexed to the 

 centre. 16 



16. Petals §-line or more broad; stigmas 7-10, very minute; 



expanding keels of fruit with rounded edges and diver- 

 giving, acute or avmed tips, not v/inged; cells roofed with 

 cell-wings, but without placental tubercles; leaves 

 short, deltoid- trigonous, hooked at the tips. (Type, 

 S. viridis, N. S. Br. - Mes. viride, Haw.). 



Smicrostigma. 



Petals filiform-linear, very slender; stigmas 9-11, fili- 

 form-subulate, not minute; expanding-keels of fruit ab- 

 ruptly diverging at the tips, with rounded edges and broad, 

 terminal, membranous winf^s; cells roofed with cell-w^ings 

 and with consricuous placental tubercles: leaves short, 

 trigonous. (Type, P. Pearsoni, N, E. Br.), Polymita . 

 N. E. Brown. 

 • (To be continued.) 



MESm<IBRYANTHEI'fflI;C, 

 Gard. Chron. HI. 78: 126. 1930. 

 (Continued from page 7lT 



CIRGANDRA, N. E. Bp. 



L26 Perennial shrub, succulent. Lepves opposite, scarcely united 

 at the base, ^lo^'ers olitery, terminal, pedicillate. Calyx une- 

 quplly 5-lobed down to the top of the ovpry. Petals numerous, free, 

 cuneately linear. Stamens numerous, very short, arranged in a ring 

 around the tor> of the ovpry at the base of the inner petals and 

 leaving the top of the ovary fully exposed to viev/. 3tignes 5, very 

 small radis ting, ^very inferior, concave and with 5 slight sutural 

 ridges on the tot). ?ruit unknovm. 



The only species is C. serrata, K. S. B^. ^ a native of i^outh 

 Africa. 



The name is derived from the Greek, kirkos, a ring, and aner, 

 male, in allusion to the remarkable raa.nner in which the very sbort 

 stamens are arranged in a ring around the top of the ovary, clearly 

 exriosing the latter to viev;. 



C. serrata, N, E. Br. — A shrub li^-2 ft. high,. Branches e- 

 rect, v/ith internodes 4-16, lines long and 1-li line thick, two- 



