121 eels 5-6 inches lonp, terete, ^aljoc subeouslly 5-lobed; lobes 



much shorter than the petals, subulste from a broad base, with fus- 

 cous membranou6 margins to three of them. Corolla about 3 inches 

 indianeter. Petals numerous (about 90 and somewhat lax, as figured), 

 in about 3 series, about 15 lines long and l/3-line broad at the 

 base, tapering to hair-like roints, ciliete at the base with minute, 

 straight hairs. Stamens and starainodes very numerous, incurved- 

 connivent as in other snecies. Stigmas KL, filiform, recurving. 



r'esembryanthemum elongatum, Salm ^yck, ^-esemb. , ^ 16 , Fig. l, 

 and "^erp-er, ^'esemb., v. 216, not of '"^avrorth. 



South ^^.frice! Locality and collector unknown, -''-s Salm ^yck's 

 work conmenced rublication 1836 and the plate representing this 

 riant v.'fs issued in the second fascicle, it was nrobably introduced 

 before 1836. 



N. E. Bro'.vn 

 (To be continued.) 



M5:ssi.:BRYANmsivij:: . 



C^.rd. Chron. HI. 9i: 144. 1932.. 

 (Continued from page 121.) 



COKICOSI^* 



144 10. C.^ Roodiae, N. E. 3r. , in ^ard. Chron., 1928, H^^'^TI ^ 

 25§.-- Seed ^ig. 59. — Rootstock p long, deeply descending white, 

 fleshytib:^r . 5-18 inches long and about half-an-inch thick, produc- 

 ing one to several leafv stems "from its top. Leaves of the central 

 tuft (in the nlant seen") about 6-8, erect or ascending, 2-5 inches 

 long, 2-2{; lines broad and the sqme in thickness, gradually tapering 

 from above the middle to an acute point, flattish or slightly chan- 

 nelled on the urrer side nearly to the apex, obtusely glabrous, 

 keeled on the back, the sides convex, smooth, glabrous, glaucous- 

 green, without dots. Flowering branches 2-13 inches long, and 2 

 lines thick, arising from the top of the tuber at the base of the 

 central tuft of leaves, glabrous, pale green. Flowers solitary. 

 Pedicels 3t-4 inches long, li; lin= thick, smooth, glabrous, pale 

 green. Flowers solitary. Calyx 5-lobed; ovary-pert hemispherical, 

 6 lines in diameter; lobes 5-15 lines long, shorter than or about 

 equalling the petals, the outer subulate from a broad base, the 

 inner broadly ovate or elliptic or trensversely elliptic-oblong, 

 green at the central part, with very broad membranous, fuscous 

 margins, marked with darker transverse veins. Corolla o:f the 

 cultivated nlant, and of a dried native flov/er seen, Zh inches in 

 diameter, but stated to be "fully 3^-4 inches in diameter," expand- 

 inp- in the afternoon and closing at night, lasting 7-8 days, with a 

 s''i^ht and peculiar odour; petals very numerous, in 3-4 series, lax, 

 recurved, spreading in different planes, free, 14-15 lines long, 

 i line or less broad, linear, very acute, sparingly cilia te at the 

 bsse, vdth minute, streight hairs, scarcely perceptable without a 

 lens, sulrhur-v'hite in the cultivated plant, but stated to be " of 

 a be^r'tiful rich ^fellov; colour" on the wild plant, as indeed it 

 appears to be in a dried •f'lower of the ■'-lid plant, -'tamens very 

 numerous, loose, 3 lines long, at first incurved over end coneecling 

 the stigmf. s, finally spreading and forming a ring around and exposing 

 the ton of the ovary and stigiuas; filaments very slender, bearded 

 at the base, v/hitish; anthers yellow, ^tigmas 16-13, nearly 2 lines 



