This 1!^ probably the correct explanstion of ^^aworth's statenent. 

 The size o-^ the flovjer as figured by Dillenius mey be too large, 

 but dried flov;ers that I have seen measure three inches in diameter; 

 yet xacY have become shrunk in drying. 



2. 0. brevicaulis, N. S. Br. in Sard. ^hron. , 19 ^':8, Vol. 

 IJCCXIY, p. 253.-- Kabit as in C. capensis. Stem 2-3 inches high, 

 3-4 lines thiol-, simple, erect. Leaves 2-6 inches long, and 2-2.; 

 line broed, triquetrous, tapering to a very acute point, entirely 

 green, fiot purplish at the base. Pedicels S|--5inches long. Calyx- 

 lobes about enuellin? or a little shorter then the netals. Corolla 

 li-2 inches in diemeter; petals 9-10 lines long, *-■§ line broad, 

 linear, very ecute, but not hair-pointed, scarcely cilia te at the 

 base, bright sulnhur-yellov. Ovary flattish on the top, but with 

 the centre slightly conical. 



Hesembryanthemum breviceule. Haw., Suppi. T±, Succ, p. 91 

 (1819), and Rev. p. 113; D. C. Frodr., v. 3, p. 426; 3alm %ck, 

 Mesemb, , % 16j, f. 2; 3ond. in Fi. Cap., v. 2, p. 409; Berger, i^esemb. 

 T). 216; IT.E.iir. in Journ. Linn, •^oc . Bot. , v. 45, p. 126. 



South Africa* Locality unkno\^^l: seeds v.'ere collected by 

 Burchell betv/een the Vaal River and ^aeff J-^einet during a Journey 

 from C-ri qua town, in 1812, from which plants v/ere raised in England 

 and described by Kav/orth, 



No dried specimen of this plant is knovm to 

 exist, but there is a drwing of the type plant preserved in the 

 Kew Herbarium, and Salm ^yck's figure correctly represents this 

 species. 



3. C. commimis, '^. 3. Br. — No tuber, roots fibrous. Stem 

 4^-12 inches long, erect or bendjng dovm and of about 2-3 years dura- 

 tion, producing at the base of the central tuft of leaves flowering 

 branches which become deciduous. Leaves of the central tuft 4-6 

 inches or those 3-4 lines bro^d and about as thick, those on the 

 flovrering branches smaller, linear-trigonous, acute, v^^ith slightly 

 concave faces and acute angles, smooth, glabrous, green purplish/ 

 at the base, more or less glaucous. Pedicels 2-5 inches long, l/h 

 line thick, smooth, glabrous., green, ^aiyx-lobes longer than the 

 petals, subeoual or somewhat unequal, 10-15 lines long, terete, 

 acute, abruptly dilated into an orbicular-ovate base, glabrous, green, 

 three of them v/ith pallid membranous margins. Corolla l«-2-^ inches 



in diameter, opening between 3 and 4 p.m., and closing about 7. p.m.; 

 petals in ^bout 6 series, 7-lC lines long, 4 line broad, linear, 

 acute, not hair-pointed, ciliate at the basal part with short, 

 straight hairs, bright, clear yelDow, the outer tintted with red at 

 the tips and bronzy-ye!i lovr on the back, shining. Between the petals 

 and the stamens are 3-4 lax series of filiform, yellovj staminodes 

 more or less incurved, a few of them bearing anthers, ^tamens- very 

 numerous at first inflexed closely around the stigmas, but after the 

 third dary becoming lax and standing av;ay from them; filaments pale 

 lemon-yellov;, v/ith a dense ring of v^hite hairs around their base; 

 anthers of a darker yellov/, Stigmas 12-15, at first erect in a 

 bunch v.'it^- their tips protuding shortly and in this condition ap- 

 pearing filiform, finially becoming revolute from the base and are 

 then flat, linear and nearly or quite -g-line broad, pale lenon- 

 yellov/. Top of the ovary broadly and shortly conical, green, 



I-esembryanthemum canitatum, Edwards in Bot. ^^eg. , t. 494, as 

 to figure only (not as to description v/hich is copied from that of 

 the true M. capitatum, Hav;. , Misc. ^at., p. 4l); Salm ^yck, I-^esemb., 



