rapidly narrowing to an acute p oint that flat on the face, rounded 

 on the brck at the basal part and keeled and compressed at the epical 

 part, end the keel in side view abruptly rounded into the apex, which 

 has a recurved mucro, greyish-green, thickly marked v;ith small, whi- 

 tish pustules or raised dots, especially on the edges and keel; but 

 the dots are sometimes greenish under cultivation. 5'lowers sessile 

 or nearly so. Calyx produced above its union with the ovary so as 

 to form with the concave top of the ovary a shallow cup, subequally 

 5-lobed pbove ; tvro of the lobes acute and rather longer than the 

 other three, v/hich are obtuse, with whitish, membranous margins. 

 Coro''.la li-lA inch In diameter; ^^etals in^about 3 series, irregularly 

 arranged ■^nd recurved, 6-8 lines long, t-* lin broad, linear, very 

 obtuse or subtruncate and toothed at the apex, yellow. Stamens erect 

 in a cylindric mass, with the basal part partly hidden from view 

 in the cun of the corolla which closely surrounds them, yellov/, 

 with darker yello'.v anthers. Stigmas 9 or 10, much shorter than 

 the stamens and about 1 line long, subulate, '^apsule 5-6 lines in 

 diameter when closed, obconic, flattish-conical and with r&ised 

 sutures on the top, with 9 or 10 valves and cells; valves reflexed 

 when expanded, railid v'ithih; expanding-keels closely contiguous 

 for half their length then more or less diverging, dark brown, 

 v;ith broad, pallid, membranous marginal v/ings; cells roofed v,dth 

 membranous cell-wings, v;hich in old cells become inrolled so as to 

 appear as if incompletely covering the cells; no placental tubercle. 

 Seeds nearly 1 line long, compressed-ovoid, microscopically tubercu- 

 late, dark brown. 



J.-esembr^/'anthemum albinotum, Haw. in Phil, i^^g., 1826, 126. 

 Nananthus albinotus, L. Bolus inn S. ^fr. Gard., 1927, 399, f. 21, 

 F., and 400, f. 22, and 1928, 127, f. 7, and Notes on i-Iesemb. I, 

 63, f. 7, and 96, f. 21, F. , and f. 22; N. E, 3r. in Journ. Bot., 

 1928, 78, Nananthus Comntonii, L. Bol,, Notes om i^^esemb. II, 120, 

 AloinoT5sis albinota , Schwant., in ^eitschr. f. Sukk. , 1926, 178, 



Oranee Free Stated Near Herisnit'i, Cooper 2395, v/ithout pre- 

 cise locality Leslie. Bioemfontein, Comnton. Gpaeff ^'^einet, ^-uir. 



^escribed partly from Haworth's description and a drav^ing of 

 the type labelled "Raised in 1823 from Cape ofn Good Hope seed re- 

 ceived from I.-r. Bowie," and partly from the materiel above quoted, 

 v;hich quite accords with the fig re of the type and iiav/orth^s 

 descriDtion. 



I have not seen a specimen of N. Comptonii, but I cannot find 

 any character in the description that v;ill in any v;ay distinguish it 

 from N. albinotus, and as it comes from the same general area as the 

 latter, I have little doubt that it is the same species. Bowie in 

 all T^robability collected it in Gpaaff ^einet Division. 



R. tersa, N. E. Br. — leaves about. 6 to a growth, ascending- 

 spreading and superposed in 4 rows, 1-1* inch long 2^^-4 lines broad, 

 end 3-4>j lines thick near the apex, flat on the face and somewhat 

 linear-lanceolate in form- seen from above, acute, somev/hat acutely 

 keeled et the apical part on the back and the keel distinctly dila- 

 ted near the apex, with the sides convex at the basal part and flat- 

 tish or compressed at the apical part and flattish or compressed 

 at the apical part, smooth but covered with microscopic points under 

 a lens, glaucous -green, tinged with purple where exposed to the 

 sun, thickly dotted v;ith darker green, the dots c.ot prominent. 

 Pedicels 6-7 lines long, 1-1^ lines thick below, thickened upwards, 

 sliglttly compressed, brectless, smooth, glaucous-green. Cdyx some- 



