1.-- A. rosulatum, N. S. ^r., in. /^ourn. 3ot., 1928, 77.— 

 Leaves spathulate, 8-12 to a f^rovth, 4,-2 inches lonr , 6-13 lines 

 broad at the dilated apical part, v.-hich is transversely sub-rhom- 

 boida] and very obtuse or broadly rounded or sub-acute at the apex, 

 and at 4-7 lines belov; the tip is suddenly contracted, or gradually 

 tepers into the cuneate petiolar part, flat bove, slightly convex 

 on the back, glabrous, r'ensely covered with small and slightly 

 rnesed, grey-gr^^en rust- les on a dull green ground, producing a 

 somewhat dull greyish-green ar^pearance, not glaucous, ^lowers axil- 

 lary, solitary or ultimately developing one 



or t-"-o other fl overs from a sessile, bracteate c:^mie. Pedicels 5-7 

 lines long, stout, thicVrening upv/ards and 2^- lines thick at the a- 

 pex. Cel3rx:-lobes 3-3i lines long, 2§-3^ lanes broad, ovate, obtuse- 

 ly TDOinted, verv flat, spreading horizontallj'', pustulate like the 

 leaves, dull green, three of them with very narrow membranous 

 margins, -etals about 40-5G- in 1 or 2 series, all horizontally 

 spreading in one r»lane from the very bpse, 4-4|- lines long, 2/3-1 

 line brocd, linear, acute, light stravz-yellov;, marked v/ith a cen- 

 trpl red line on both sides. Stam.ens about 2|- lines long, collected 

 ■into a broad cone, the outer without anthers; filaments hairy at 

 the basal part, pale straw-yellow, somewhat shining; anthers small, 

 creamy-".'hite. Sti'gmes about 12, subulate, compessed laterally, 

 frini?ed along the inner margin, whitish, '^apsule as described under 

 the genus. 



Mesembryanthemum rosulatum, i^nsit in Tp. R. 3oc. ^. -^f r . , 

 I, 152, t. 21, f. B. (1909); Aloinopsis rosulata, >^chv/ant. in 

 Zeitschr. f. Sukk. , 1926, 178, and 1927, 105; L. Bol, in Notes on 

 I'esemb. I, 63, and in S. Afr. Gprd., 1929, 288, v/ith fi^. in which 

 the cells of the ovary are represented much too deep, ^ee also 

 N. "5. 3r. in ^ourn. Bot., 1928, 78, concerning the invalidity of 

 Alinonsis. 



'■'^il] owmore •'-'ivisionJ near '■''illovmore, I^award. Pillans 1266; 

 Kruidontein, Pole 3vans, 6921. i^^iller District, ■t'ers. 



The above description, as previously'- stated, v^'as made partly 

 from a living riant, collected by Mp. 3. Howard during a criketlng 

 tour in South -t^frica, v/hich flowered at ^ew on -^ugust 3, 1910, 

 and r)artly from, living and flried material sent to me by ^r* ^ole 

 Evans and "^rofessor R. H, Compton. '^he diagramatic section of the 

 flower (Fig. 198) v/as made from the Kev^,' flov/er on the date men- 

 tioned. 



N. E. Brown 

 (To be continued.) 



La;3m!BRYACTHE.m!! . 

 Card. Chron. HI. 88: 513. 1930. 

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VEPRUCIFERA^ N. E. Br. 



Stemless, succulent perennials v;ith a fleshy root-stock. 

 Leave? o'^psite, densely crowded into a rosette, scending, semitere- 

 tely or trlgonor^sly clavate, with the very obtuse ?pex covered with 

 cro-"rded white arts composed of microscopic lim.e-cells. ^lowers 

 solltprv. Cgl^nc sub-eouall^r 6-lobed down to its union v/ith the 

 ovary. Petals in 1 or 2 series, all widely spreading in one plane 

 as if in one series. Stamens loosely erect, slightly inflexed at the 



