144 Frorn this account I feel sure some m:'-Stake v;as made, and thet 

 in reality a dried flo^-.-ering branch of G. pugionif ormis v;as sent to 

 Kav-orth, but in the mind of Mr. Hov-ard vjas either confused v;ith a- 

 nother plant that had glittering leaves, or else that he merely 

 meant thpt the petals. of the flower were shining, as they usually 

 ere. '^e above is too confused sn account to permit of the reten- 

 tion of the specific name. 



I>-. pugionif orme ver. -purpureura. — ^'lowers purule. -t^-nd ''--'■. pug- 

 ioniforme vsr. csrneum. — Flo^.-ers pink, ^aworth, ^ev. tl. oucc'. , 

 p. 112. These names ere merely founded upon Chrysanthemum aizoides 

 africanura triangular i folio flore purpureo, and C, aizoides africanum 

 triangulsri folio flore careno, Breyne, Sxot. ^lant., p. 164 (l678) . 



South Africa: Loc?'lit3'- unknown, 



TTothing whatever is knovm of these plants, '^'hey evidently do 

 not belong to this genus. 1 suspect that they may belong to Hesem- 

 bryanthemum or lampranthus, Breyne does not figure them, and from 

 his brief description":: it is utterly impossible to form a correct 

 opinion of them. They v;ere tv/o plants cultivated in Holland before 

 1678, of which Havorth had no knov/ledge, 



N. E. Brown 

 (To be continued.) 



LIE3SI' IBRYANTKEIvOTvl. 

 Gard. Chron. HI. 9i: 205. 19:^2. 

 (Continued frora page 144.) 



SAPHSSIa, N. S. Br. 



205 Perennial (or biennial?), herbaceous, succulent. Leaves oppo- 

 site, not united pt the base, flat, entire. Stem branching, with 

 distinct internodes, not v'oody. Flowers solitary, terminal, on 

 lone- pedicels. Calyx unequally 5-lobed. Petals ^numerous , free, 

 shorter than e mass, surrounded by staminodes*? ^tigmas 5, erect, 

 filiform. Ovary inferior, 5-celled, v.'ith the placentas on the floor 

 of the very shallov; cells. Fruit unknovm. 



A monot^T-riic genus, native of South Afric-- . 



The narae is derived from the Greek, sanhes, distinct, becsuse 

 the plant is qiiite distinct from ever^r other knov^n member of the 

 family. 



Although only knovm from Jacquin's excellent figure and a single 

 specimens in Kev/ herbarium, without fruit, this plant is so unlike 

 any of its allies thrt it cannot be nlaced in any genus known to 

 m.e, I therefore make a fresh one for its reception. Its leaves 

 remind one of those of those Prenia, while its long-stalked flov/ers 

 recall those of Garpanthea, but ore totally different in structure. 



1. — 3. flaccida, N.E.Br. — Plant herbaceous, glabrous, 3-6 

 inches high. Hootstock apparently'- perennial, but may perhaps die 

 after flowering, stated to produce during the first tvvo or three 

 years only a rosette of leaves, v/hich fall away when the plant pro- 

 duces flowers. Flowering stems imnle or branched, terete, 1-3 

 lines thick, vdtb internodes |--1| inch long, and stated to be v;eak 

 and -flaccid, bearing 2-3 pairs of leaves, light green. Leaves oppo- 

 site or sub-or>t)osite. sessile, not united at the base, spreading and 

 slip-htly recurved, l|-2 inches "long, 2-4 lines broad, linear-lanceo- 



