134 find hrt the name is ectually iDased upon what is evidently an en- 

 tirely different species, for I'-rs. Solus states that i^J^r. Leslie's 

 photograph represents e plant that "appears to be the sarae as one 

 sent from Bultonfein and Boetsap in ^erl<:lY ''■est, the only difference 

 being that the leaves are shorter and more like those of Burchell's 

 plant as represented in the unpublished drawing at 'i^ei\-. But the 

 flov.-ers are larger and the petals are banded with red." So that as 

 I'^r. Leslie's photograph only "appears" to be the spme and yet has 

 characters that are stated to be different, and as the plant comes 

 from another locality, it is in all probablity quite distinct from 

 the nlant to v/hich I'rs. Bolus intends the varietal name "-BtrJata" 

 to arply. Therefore, until plants collected at one or other of the 

 localities v.^here Burchell found it have been compared both v/ith the 

 Postmasburg plpnt and eraonstrate that the letter is distinct, I 

 deem it best to treat it as I have here done. 



4. N. rubrolineatus, N. E. Br., in Journ. Bot., 1928, 78.— 

 (Fig. 70). — Hosettes or Growths 2-3 inches in diameter, composed 

 of 6~B spreading leaves, 1 inch to 2 inches long, 4§-10 lines broad, 

 2^-4i lines t ick, somewhat softly fleshy, oblong-spa thulate or lanceo- 

 late, acute, flet on the face, obtusely keeled at the apical part 

 on the back, glabrous, greyish-green or tinted with brown or pur- 

 plish, thickly covered with slightly raised, whitish dots pustules. 

 Pedicel 2-4 lines long, 2 lines thic^,, ^alyx-lobes 4-5 lines 

 long, deltoid-ovate, obtusely pointed, dull reen v/ith smell, whit- 

 ish pust' les. Oorolla 15-15 lines in diameter, expanding before 

 11 am. and closing about 4 p.m.; petals in 2 series, imbricating 

 and all spreading from the base in one plane, 6-7 lines long, l-li 

 line bropd, entire, acute, yellow, with n red line dov;n he middle 

 on both sides. Starriens collected into a cone about 3 lines long, 

 yellow. Stigmas 10, filiform, 2 lines long, about equalling the 

 staminal cone, pale greenishr CgpsiJe 5-6^ lines in diemeter when 

 closed, hemisperical, slightly convex above and with raised sut- 

 ures to the 10 valves, which are pallid v/ithin; keels diverging 

 from the base and the adnate part about half as long as the valve, 

 brown, biit produced into a pallid awn nearly as long as the valve, 

 not winged; cells open, with the cell wings standing erect, back to 

 back, and at the outer part about -|--line high, pallid. Seeds about 

 ■|-line long, globose-ovoid, with a point, microscopically tubercu- 

 iate, dark brown. 



I-esembryanthemum rubrolinep tum, N. E, Br.^ in Kew Bull,, 1911, 

 82, not of I&rloth, Aloinopsis rubrolineata, Schwant. , in ^eitschr. 

 f. Sukk,, 1926, 17P. A. Dyeri, L. Bol. in S. Afr. Gard. , 1929, 

 244, v/ith fig. 



^rpaff Heinet -^ivisionJ Kendrevi^, %er,. ^escribed from a living 

 plant sent by ITp. ^. »''• ^-owlett, i&rom '^est Heinet, where it v/as 

 cultivated, to Eei", in 1908. 



I am indebted to Mr. R. -i^. Dyer for a living plant of f^iloinopsls 

 iJyeri, L, Bolus, and f 'nd it identical with the well-knovm J-*', 



rubrolineptus, . 



N. S. Bpov/n 

 (To be continued.) 



I>'I3SEIvIBRYx J^^lHEIvTO'I . 

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