our present species (and in a less decree H, karooicum, L, Bolus) 

 w^s I', campestre, Burchell (Wo, 1,340) , of vhich there ere tv/o 

 specimens without f lovers, but vdth fruit, in the I^ev; ^-^erbarium, " 

 This statement scarcely agrees Vv'ith the facts, because v;hen ^-rs. 

 Bolus v/as t Kev7 in 1925, she found three dried specimens in the 

 Eevj Herbarium that v/ere all named by myself, "^'i, viride. Haw,"; 

 tv7o of them I gathered and named from cultivated plants respecti- 

 vely in 1857 and 1880, and another (Bolus, 6,714) was distributed 

 from the Bolus Herbarium as "II. cfr. uncinellum. Haw." 'These 

 three specimens have all been labelled by Mrs. ^olus "M, integrum," 

 and dated "25-8-25." 



N, E, Brown 

 (To be continued.) 



l^IESEivTBRYANTHmiUIvI . 



Card. Ohron. HI. ST*- 211. 1930. 



(Continued from page 186.) 



ANTIMIia, K. E. Br. 



Very dwarf, succulent, T:)erennial, glabrous, forming clumps of 

 very short, erect brpnches, with one p^ir (or vrhen making nev/ growth 

 two pairs) of leaves to each. Leaves united at t; e base, ascending- 

 spreading, thick and fleshy, ovate-lanceolate, smooth, whitish- 

 green. Flo^'-ersgreen. 5'lov;ers solitary, terminal, sessile, bi- 

 bracteate. Calyx sub-equally 5-lobed down to its union with the 

 ovary. Petals free, in about two series. S-^amens numerous, erect, 

 in a ring around the large stig/nps; fil^iments not bearded. 3tigm£iS 

 5, large, stoutl;"' lanceolate-subulate, acuminate, '-'vrry inferior, 

 flat on the top, 5-cenied; r^lacentes on the outer wall, ^"riiit not 

 seen, but stated to be I'ke that of ^-esembryanthemun. 



A monotyriic genus, of which the t^'pe is A, dualis, N. E. Br. 

 A native of South Africa. 



"Tie name is derived from the Greek, antimimos ;:i imitating, in 

 allusion to the resemble nde this flent has to ^-rgyroderma necotjinura. 



1. A. dualis, N. E. Br. (Eig. 88).— Plant forming clumps 

 1-2 inches high, formed of rather closely packed stem.s coverered 

 with the crowded remains of deed leeves which form four very dis- 

 tinct and ecute angles, glabrous in ell parts, ^eaves 7-10 lines 

 long, 4-5 lines broad and 3-3 J- lines thick at the base, thence 

 gradually tepering to e mib-acute and shortly apmculate apex, 

 slightly convex on the fpce, obtuse l3'--keeled on the back, with the 

 edges end the keel over the apex cartilaginous, smooth, entirely 

 whitish-green. Elower sessile, with e pair of bracts under the 

 csl;;nc, v/hich is somevhet Peer-shaded and oi lines in diameter, 

 smooth; lobes 2|--24 lines lon^, ovate, obtuse, vdth narrow, nem- 

 brenous edges. Corolla bout i-inch in diemeter, but perhaps not 

 full^A developed in the specimen seen; petals in about 2 series, 3- 

 3-| lines long, l/3-line broed, lineer, obtuse, bright rosy-magenta, 

 '^temens about 2 lines long; filaments not bearded, v;hite; anthers 

 pale yel lov; . Stigmas erect, 2 lines long and 2/3-line bro?^d, as 

 long as the stamens, but probably not fully devellped, stoutly 

 lanceolate-subulate, acuminate, nale yellov:ish. 



I-esem^ryanthemum duale, N. E. Br., in Journ. Linn, '^oc , i^ot., 

 ^XXV, 89. Arg-roderma duale, N. 2. Br. in ^ard. Chron. , 1922, I^^I, 



