389 2^-3 inches high when in flov;er. Leaves in 4-6 pairs to each 



growth, crowded, spreading, l'i-24 inches lon^;, 3-4 lines broad at 

 the "base, thence gradually taperinp; in a straight line to the apex, 

 2^-3 lines thick and rounded on the back at the base, compressed, 

 keeled, and the keel dilated to 4-4| lines thick near the apex, 

 flat on the face, smooth, glabrous, light greyish-green, inconspic- 

 uously dotted with darker green. Pedicel about 1* inch long and 

 if line thick below, thickened above and gradually passing into 

 the obconic ovary, and with light green. Ca]yx equally 5-lobed, 

 glabrous; lobes revolute v/hen the flov.-er is expanded, 6-7 lines 

 long, 2^-4 lines broad, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute with- 

 out or with very narrov/ membranous edges. Clorolla about 2 inches 

 in diameter, commencing to onen about 5 p.m., and fully open be- 

 tv/een 6 and 7 p.m., strongly scented (something like the odour of 

 Coconut), closed during the day; petals in about 4 series, lax, 

 the outer deflexed, the inner ascendjng-spreading, and the others 

 in intermediate planes, 9-10 lines long, |--line broad, acute, all 

 incurved-hooked at the tips, bright yellow, changing to red when 

 faded, shining. Stamens numerous, erect in a columnar mass, 5| 

 lines long, entirely yellov^?; filaments bearded at the base, Stig- 

 mas 5, filiform, twisted like a corkscrev? and in that condition 

 about 5 lines long, pubescent-stigma tose, yellow. Glands 5, large, 

 in pockets at the base of the stamens. Top of the ovary conical, 

 green. Fruit not seen. 



C^riqualand '-est J Near Campbell, j^ole ^vans, 5 8G1, 

 This is a very pretty, night-flowering species and is delicious- 

 ly scented. The incurved tips of the lax and very numerous petals, 

 and the corkscrev;-like stigmas, are characters I have not noticed 

 in anv other plant of this group. 



In general characters this" accords with P. Crpenil, but the 

 leaves are not velvety to the touch as in that species, and I have 

 not seen fruit of either. I therefore refer it to this genus for 

 the present, 



N. E. Brown 

 (To be continued.) 



ME3a!rBRY.^NTHSI'.!LDM . 

 Gard. Ghron. HI. 90 : 13. 1931. 

 (Continued from page 389, Vol. Li^CCEI. ) 



CONIC OSIA, N, E. 3r. 



13 Perennials or, in one or tv-o species, of but tv.-o or three 

 years' duration, either with fibrous roots and a single main stem 

 ternip.nating in a perennial dense tuft of leaves, with flov.ering bran- 

 ches produced from, the basal pert of the tuft, or with a long, 

 fleshy or tuberous rootstock emitting from its top a centreal leaf- 

 tuft and prostrate flowering-branches, or flovjering branches only, 

 v/ith opposite or sometimes some alternate leaves scatterd along 

 them and a small tuft at the ends, deciduous after fruiting. Leaves 

 in the large tufts cr-^'-'-der' and appearing alternate, but in realty 

 opposite in their origin, slightly stem-clasping at the base, erect 

 or ascending except v;hen old, long and narrow, either sharly 3- 

 engled or subterete, and slightlv channelled down the face, but in 

 C. fusiform! s described as terete, soft, v/ithout dots, pellucid 

 or other^A'ise. Flowers large, solitary, on long pedicels. Calyx 



