144 the outer apperently 12-15 lines long and § line broed, linear, 

 tapering to a very fine point, apparently not ciliete at the base; 

 the inner gradually shorter and nerrovrer, pale yello'. . Staminodes 

 hair-like. Stigmas not seen. 



?^ pugioniforme, 1. Bol. in -^nn. S. ^vfr. i--us., I^^, 144, not 

 o-f Linnaeus or other authors, 



little Namaoualandi At T\vee River, cororaon in sandy ground 

 from Stinkfontein to Lilief ontein, Pearson 6438. 



^-^escribed from dried specinens, but from its very long end 

 very stout obtuse leaves, it is evidently very distinct from all 

 the others here described. I ar^pears to be nesr ^. elongatum, but 

 has much smaller flov^ers and the petals are not cjliate with long 

 flexnose hairs, "^e leaves may heve been subterete, 



IS. 0. fusiformis, N.E.Br., in Ggrd. Chron., 1929, I^QOav, 

 25-5. — rtootstock a fleshy, white, fusiform or ^sdish-like tuber 

 about P inches long and as thick as the finger. Leaves tufted, 

 3-5 inches long, 2^ lines thick, terete, acute, yellov'ish-green, 

 sli-c'htly shining. Pedicels about 4 inches long. Galyx-lobes longer 

 than the petals, with leaf -like tips. Corolla about 2^ inches in 

 diameter. Petels numerous, in 3 or 4 series, ebout an inch long, 

 lin<=^r, ??cute, not tanering to heir-like points, sulphur-37'ellow, 

 with the basal p^rt yellow. Stamens golden-yellov/. 



--esembr^T'anthemun fusiformis, Hgw, , ^''isc. Kat., p. 41, founded 

 urion Chrvsanthemum aizoides africanum teretif olium, Breyne, Exot. 

 Plant., p. 161, t, 80. M. bicolorum, Kunsmann (clevis, ^reyne). 



Hobben Island. Introduced into Dutch gardens about 1667. 



This is the first species of this genus to have been introduced 



into cultivation, and during the 252 years that have elapsed 

 since the riublication 1678 of -^reyne's account of it (from which 

 the above description has been made), nothing more appears to have 

 been kno^^n of it. For it soon died out of cultivation and no modern 

 collector has rediscovered the plant, v;hich is stated to have been 

 founc' on Robben Island. In its terete leaves it differs from all 

 others excent C. elongatum. 



The plant wrongly figured as being I-I. pugioniforme in 2C. Pi. 

 Grass, t. 72, may possibly belong here, but its leaves are represented 

 as channelled down then urper side, otherwise the characters seem 

 to agree with those of C. fusiformis. 



Excluded Species. 



--. coruscans, Haw., Suppl, pi. Succ, p. 90,-- l^av/orth's account 

 of this is as follov;si — 



"Leaves of the head or tuft very long, dagger-shaped, glitt- 

 ering: stem perennial. 



'I have not seen this alive, but my mosfe excellent discrimin- 

 ating? friend -"r. ^ohn Howard, now of Sistead, in Surrey, in 1813 

 communicated to me a dead Branch, eight inches long, with a ripe 

 carsu'^e and three bracteal leaves several inches beneath the calyx, 

 and each t'"'o or three inches long, "is letter which accompanied it, 

 said it vi'as a nev; species allied to i-'. spectabile, but glittered 

 like "'. micans. To me it a'^peared so closely like i-. pugioniforme 

 in every respect, in its dry state, that but for his letter I 

 should have thoue-ht it the same. It lives and flowers several years 

 and is vet living. 'Its flow'er exactly resembled thot of -". pomer- 

 idienuir of '^ot, ^'^gaz., v/ith the rounded calycinal leaves, and 

 shining like that plant,,' ^-r. '-oward's letter." 



