279 long. 2. Beswickil. 



Lef;ves :n side view gradually tapering to the acute a- 



pex; stigmas radiating. 3. Kelsoni. 



1, K. pcutipetala, N. E. Bp. — Slant li-2§ inches high, v/ith 

 cro\?ded branches 2-12 lines long, arising from a fleshy, divided 

 roots took, glahrous, leaves 2-6 to a growth, crowded, shortly u- 

 nited at the hase, erect Or ascending, 6-14 lines long, 2-3 lines 

 brofd and 14--2 lines thick at the basal pert, thence Tin face vievr) 

 gradually tapering to an acute and mucronate apex, flat on the face, 

 convex on the back at the basal part and keeled at the apical part, 

 and (in side view) v^ith the keel somewhat abruptly tapering to 



(not rounded into) the point from a little belovv' the apex, smooth, 

 greyish-green or slightly glaucous, pellucid-dotted, and with the 

 dots on living plants contiguous on margins and keel and foriLing 

 ccrtilpp-inous edges. Pedicels 2^-4 lines long. Calyx-lobes 3-5 

 lines long, broadly ovate, acute or obtuse. Corolla bout 1^ inch 

 in diameter; petals numerous in 3 or 4 series, linear, acute; the 

 inner smaller and gradually passing into 3 or 4 series of filiform, 

 recurved staminodes, bright rosy-purple. Stamens numerous, the 

 outer spreading, 2-2-i- lines long; filaments rosy-purple; anthers 

 yellow. Stigmas 8-10 (not 7 or 8 as originally described) , about 

 2 lines long, erect, v/ith recurved tips, subulate, acute. Capsule 

 as described under the genus, 5-6 lines in diameter when closed, 

 v/ith 8-10 valves and cells, and, v/hen clean and fresh, bright 

 oohreous-brown on the outside and ochreous within, becoming dark 

 brof.'m or fuscous with age; cells without placental tubercles. Seeds 

 9-17 in a cell, ^ line long, somewhat corapressed-^ear-shaped, mic- 

 rosconically tuberculate, ochreous. 



IJesembrvsnthemum acutipetaluFx, N. E, Br., in ^^vi Bull. I«iisc . 

 Inf. , 1908, 407.^ 



'^ransvaal. Near Johannesburg, -urner, ^"^oss. 



2. K. Beswickii, N. E. 3r. — Plant closely resembling K, 

 acutipetale in habit, vegetavie characters and flowers, but with pale 

 rose-coloured petals fading into v'hite at the base. Stigm^is 6, 

 erect or ascending, about 2 lines long. Capsule like that of K, 

 acutipetala, but with only 6 vlves and cells, and the cells with a 

 small end rather obscure placental tubercle. Seeds about 5 or 6 



in a cell, a lens distinctly but minutely tuberculate, the tubercles 

 being larger and more easily seen than those on K. acutipetals, 

 brown. 



Kesembryantheraum Besv/ickii, L. Sol., in Ann. BqI. Herb., HI, 

 124. 



I'rensvaal! Near Johannesburg, J^'-ioss. Ross I'rames in Herb. 

 Bolus, 17256. 



6ried specimens of this plant in flovrer only cannot be dis- 

 tinguished from K. acutipetala v/ithout dissecting the flowers, but 

 the in fruit the niimber of valves of the capsule easily distinguishes 

 it. I have not bee able to compare living flowers of the tv;o species, 

 so cannot state if the colour distinction is constant, but the dif- 

 ference in the niomber of valves to the capsule and t:e size and 

 number of seeds in a cell is quite constant in the numerous capsules 

 examined, and which were attached to living and dead plants Eindly 

 sent to me by Professor C. E. ^-'oss. 



According to the original description, this plant differs from 



