Fiffs, 48 and 49). — Leaves changabl'^-- In form, those of native- 

 grovm nlents 4-10 to a ferowth, asceflding or ascending-spreading and 

 usually ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or sub-acute, 610 lines 

 long, 2>r-5 lines broad at the middle, and sometimes with one side 

 more bulging than the other, 2-2^ lines thick, flat or slightly 

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

 keeled at the apical part, and the keel compressed and slightly 

 dilated, so that in side view it is truncately rounded into the 

 anicula and is also sometimes oblique. Under cultivation these 

 leaves change to others th=it are 10-20 lines long, Ig-S lines T road 

 and 1-2 lines thick, linear or linear-lanceolate, tapering from 

 about the middle to an acute point, mucronate, f 1? t on the face, 

 rounded on the back, except at the apex where they are slightly 

 keeled, and in s5 de viev; with the keel gradually "(not abruptly") 

 rounded or narrov-red into the apex; all forms of leaf glabrous and 

 slightl3r rough from being covered with raised dots or small pus- 

 tules, dull grey-green or vrhitish, according to sun exposure. 

 Pedicels 1^-2-g- lines Ion'"', ^oljx lobes 3-4 lines long, 2;'; lines 

 broad, deltoid-ovate, acute, prominently dotted. CJorolla about an 

 inch in diameter; petals all spreading in one plane, 4-4t lines 

 long, subacute obtuse, yellov;, shining, paler on^the back, v/ith a 

 bright red line dovm the middle on both sides, "^tamens collected 

 into a broad cone 2-2i lines long, white, with yellov/ish anthers. 

 Stigmas 7-10, erect, with recurved tips, compressed-subulate. 

 Ovary slightly convex on the tor. *^apsule 3-4 lines in diameter 

 when closed, hemispherical belov;, slightly convex on the top. Cap- 

 sule with 7-10 valves and cells, and entirely pallid v/ithin; ex- 

 pa nding-keels nearly as long as the valve, contiguous into a central 

 iceel throughout their length except at the tips, and having broad 

 marginil v/ings; cells open, v/ithout or with rudimentary cell -wings 

 standing rect, back to back; no placental tubercle, ^eeds 2/3- 

 line long, flattish and thin, somev/hat elliptic in outline, vvith a 

 point, smooth, pale brown on one half and darker brown on the other 

 part. 



I'-'esembn'-enthemum vittatum, W. E, B^. in G"ard. "^hron. , 1875, 

 VI, 772, and in Burtt Davy's Fl. Irpnsv. I, 150, 152; L. Bol. in 

 3. Afr. Gard., 1928, 127, f. 6, and Notes on Ivlesemb. I, 63. I-:, 

 transvaalense, ?Jolfe in Bot. i«^g. t. 8674, a tjoor figure, ^loinopsis 

 vittata, Schv'pnt., in ^eitschr. f. Sukk, 1925', 178; L, Bol, in 

 3. Afr. Oerd. 1929, 241, with fig. 



Orange Free Stated Fauresraith District, 4,600 feet alt, near 

 the '-alwas River, Smith 4391 on the Fauresmith Botanical -Reserve, 

 Smith 4405, and at J"agersf ontein, Smith 5235. Transvaal : 3mithz- 

 kreel, Boshof District, Burtt Davy, Hamans K^aal, Hutchinson* 



Ihis snecies vras originally described from a living plant sent 

 to Kew v;ithout information as to locality between 1873 and 1876, 

 by Mr, H, Hutton, v-honat that time lived at Bedford in South -n-frlca, 

 and he used occasionally to make a Journey to the Diamond Field, he 

 probablv obtained it during one of those journeys. 



^. vittatus under cultivation in Europe is quite unlike the 

 same rl^nt in a v;ild state, as the short 6v&te leaves represented 

 at Fig. 48, which if from a photograrhn taken by I^r. C, A, Smith of 

 a Fauresmith plan-t-, chane-e into others that are longer and narrower, 

 end linear-lanceolate in form. The Hamans Kraal plpnt above quoted, 

 when received at Kew in 1929, had leaves like those represented at 

 Fig. 18, but tv;elve months after introduction it began to change 

 the form of its leaves, both the original ovate leaves and the nev/ 



