v/ith spree-ding tips and the anthers pressed closely ageinst 

 basal Df-rt; overy nearly flat on the top; capsule 11-14 



. erect 

 their 



lines in diameter, v/ith the cone about 5 lines high and composed 

 of 16-20 valves, grroved on the back. Seeds rather raore than |- 

 lines in diameter, compressed-globose, smooth, mottled v/ith dull 

 light end dark brown, not shining. 



G-eoree Division: The "'ilderness, ^^rs. 2. van der -^ijl, 12. 

 l\-rs. van der Biji^ when sending this, expressed the ODinion 

 that it v/as an annual, but I think it must be' a perennial with a 

 fleshy roots tock and perhai^s deciduous leaves and branches. I 

 only succeeded in raising one plant of it v/hich I failed to keep 

 alive through the v>anter. Fig. 48 represents this plant just 

 coming into flov/er, v/ithntwo iDuds upon it, but ± was unable to ob- 

 tain a photoranh of it when in flower. Fig. 4.7 represents a dia- 

 gramatic section through one of its flov^ers. It is very like 2, 

 Muirii, but differs by the membranes of the calyx-lobes being vAitish 

 and by the absence of a small tubercle under the sinues of the 

 cal^TK-lobes , and the flatter ovary. 



8. C. elongate, K. E. Br., in Gard. Chron. , 1928, LX^Sr/, p. 253 

 -- Rootstock nearly as large as the egg of a goose, thick and ir- 

 regular in shape according to the figure. Stems few, prostrate. 

 Leaves 8-9 inches Ion*?:, obsoletely trigonous or rarely somewhat 

 terete, channe^^led above at the basal half, obtuse, laxly crowded 

 into a head, very glaucous, withering and deciduous. Flowers 1-3, 

 terminal on the branches, v/hen 3 the central pedicel is nearly as 

 long as the leaves and the lateral ones much shorter. Calyx very 

 large, subcampanulate; lobes unequal, shorter than the petals, tv;o 

 much larger than the rest, flat and ovate at the base, with elonga- 

 ted filiform tips, and three v.ath pallid membranous margins veined 

 with fuscous. Oorolla 5 inches or raore in diameter, expanding in 



the morning, shov^r, with an odour like that of a goat. Petals in 

 manyraany series, very narrov/, very acute and almost hair-like, of 

 a bril] iant sulrhur-yellow, ciliate from the base to the middle 

 ivith long end cons^^icuous flexuose hairs. Stamens very numerous, 

 short, the outer erect, the inner convergent, sulphur-yellow,. 

 Stiffmas 10-19, as long as the stamens, with recurved tips. 



Mesem-bryanthemur,. elong'^tum, I^av;., Obs., 236, J'iisc. Nat., 40, 

 Syrop., 228, and P-ev. , 113, and a] so in Bot. ^'^eg., t. 493, ^as to 

 root onl3r and Latin descriptionnof var. a.; Sender in Fi. Cap., 

 II, 409, excludinpc syn. M. pugionif orme; _^not of other authors. 

 i-, elonga turn var. minus, Hav;. , -^ev. ^1. Succ . , 114. i-. elongatum 

 var. b. , HavT. in Bot. ^eg. , t. 493, as to the flowering branch 

 onl7/, may be a different species. 



South Africa '• Locality and collector unknown. Hav/orth gives 

 the locality as "Australia," but that is obviously an error. 



This nlant is only known from Haworth's description, of v/hich 

 the above is a translation. The large size of the flowers and long, 

 tortuous cilia on the petals would seem to be very striking charac- 

 ters. 



9. G. affinis, N.S.B. , in Gard. Chron. , 1928, L}CQ:IV, 253.-- 

 Rootstock in a deformed or irregularly fusiform or ovoid tuber 3-4 

 inches long, producing one or a few leafy annual branches at its 

 apex. Leaves' lax, 4-6 inches long and 1|- line broed, linear-subu- 

 late, concave-channelled above at the basal part, +erete at the 

 arical t)art, rounded on the back, slightly gieiacous green. I'edi- 



