3-3§ lines broad. Petels 5-6 lines long. Stigmas 3- 



4 lines longl 5. cibdela. 



5. Leaves 10-15 li nes long, 4-5 lines broed, lanceolate, 

 strongly keeled p.t the apex,. Petals 3/4-line broad, 

 notched or toothed at the apex, yellovv. 2. albinota. 



Leaves 9-10 lines long, 3-4 lines broed, gradually teper- 

 ing from base to apex, obtuselj/ keeled on the back and 

 the keel of one lesf of each pair somev/hat dilated at 

 the anex. Feta].s ^-line broed, obtuse, apparently deep- 

 orange, but seen only v;hen faded, so may have been 

 yellov/, 4. Leslie!. 



1. H. carolinensis, N. S. Bp. — Leaves 4-8 to a grov/th, as- 

 cending-st)reading, united at the base,i-| inch long, 5-6 lines broad 

 at the basal nart, somev/hat deltoid-ove te, acute, flat or perhaps 

 slightly concave on the face, rounded on the back at the basal part, 

 keeled at the apical part, greyish-green or glaucous-green, marked 

 v.'ith vv-hitish or' green slightly prominent dots or pustules, glabrous. 

 Pedicels 5-7 lines long. Cal^/x nroduced above its union wit^^ the 

 ovary into a short cup, subeaually 5-lobed and prominently dotted 

 like the leaves; lobes 3-5 lines long, the outer acute, the inner 

 with brov.Ti, membranous margins. Corolla apparently about 1-1'i 



inch in diameter; petals numerous in 2-3 series, the outer appraent- 

 ly about 5-6 lines long and 1/4-1/3 line broad, acute or obtuse, 

 vAiite, v/hen dried marked v.'ith numerous linear, red streaks. Sta- 

 mens and staminodes loosely erect in a cylinaric mass, white, but 

 v/hen dried, the filaments are reddish. Stigmas apparently 6 in 

 the only f lover examined, but some may have been broken off, erect, 

 filiform or subulate, laterally compressed, acute, about 3 lines 

 long and exceeding the stamens v/hen fully developed, orange ac- 

 cording to :'rs. Bolus, reddish \"hen dried. Top of the ovary v/ith 

 large, rounded and very prominent sutural humps behind the base of 

 the stigra'=s. 



Kesembrvanthemum carolinense, L. Bol. in ■'^nn. Bol. Herb., HI, 

 128; N. E. Br. in Burt Davy's Fl. Transv. , I, 169-162. Nananthus 

 albipunctuE, L. Bol. in 3. Afr. Gard., 1929, 244, figure; not of 

 N. ^. Brovm. 



Transvaal: Cpolina, Rogers 19705. 



"This snecies ras discovered by the Rev. JF. ^^. Robers in Septem- 

 ber, 1917, and a specimen of it was sent ot Kirstenbosch, from 

 v.;hich ¥-rs. Bolus described the plant. -he above descripion was 

 made from .Rogers* dried material, and I find that the figure v/rongly 

 na^med "ITanathus slbipunctus" above quoted, so exactly represents 

 this plant that I think it cannot be any other species than R, 

 carolinensis. The stigmas, hovever, are represented as 10 and shorter 

 than the stamens; but I am not sure of the number of stigmas in 

 R. carolinensis, because, whn dissecting dried flov/ers of these 

 plants, they often bre^^k off and get lost among the stamens; and 

 their 1-ngth often varies according to the age of the flov/er examined; 

 if young they would be shorter than the stamens. If the fig^ire 

 does not represent B, carolinensis it miast be a very closely allied 

 ST>ecies, and certainly bears no resemblance whatever to '^^anthus 

 albipunctus, N. E. Br." 



2. R. elbino-ts, K. S. Br. — Leaves in 3 or 4 pairs to a growth, 

 spreading, 10-15 lines long, 4-5 lines broad at the middle, thence 



