S05 late, acute, entire, flat above but becoming concsve at the base, 

 obtusely keeled on the back, green. Pedicels 1^-7 inches long, 1-2 

 lines thick, terete. Calyx unequally 5-lobed; ovarjr-part somewhat 

 hemispheric, rather srot 11 and shallow; lobes 4-12 lines long, 1-4 

 lines bropd, varying from ovate-lanceolate to somewhat spathulate, 

 acute. Corolla l"i-l> inch in diameter; petals numerous, in 3-4 

 series, much shorter then the calyx-lobes and '::-6 lines long, less thaj 

 ■J line broad, linear, very ecute, yellow. S+amens about 3 lines 

 long, apparently surrounded by staminodes; anthers yellov/. ^tigmss 

 5, erect, 2 lines long, filiform, i^ruit unknown. 



I'-esembryenthemu flaccidum, Jfca., Hort. Schoenbr. ^, 38, 

 t. 475. Hav;., Rev. Pi. 3ucc., 158.' 



South Africa J Locality unknown, cultivated by Jacquin before 

 180^; also a specimen at Kev.' collected by Ihom. 



N. E . BrovTi 

 (To be continued.) 



MESSI'3Ky^: THSi-inu. 



Gard. Chron. HI. 91 : 262. 1932. 



(Continued from page 205.) 



APATSSIA., N, 5. 3r. 



262 T)^».rarf annual, branching at the base, and the branches decum- 

 bent. Leaves o-^posite, petiolete, flat or concave like a spoon, 

 with the petiole dilated below into an open sheath, not united in 

 pairs at the base, and not dotted. Flowers solitary, terminal, on 

 long pedicels. Calyx produced a little beyond its union v/ith the 

 ovary into a saucer-shaped limb, unequally 5-lobed above; ovary- 

 part shallowly hemispherical; lobes narrov/ly spathulate from, a broad 

 base, the inner with broad membranous margins. Corolla, staminodes 

 and stamens arising from the saucer-shaped limb of the calyx; pet- 

 als numerous in 4-5 series, free, v-idely spreading. Staminodes nu- 

 merous, hair-like or petal-like at the base and hair-like above, 

 contorted, at first more or less bent over the stamens, afterwards 

 becoming m.ore erect. Stamens numerous, all inflexed, bent down upon 

 the ton of the ovary and then upcurved around the style and stigmas; 

 inner filaments bearded at the base, -^tyle stout, with 10-12 short, 

 filiform, stigmas radiating from its apex at about the level of the 

 anthers. Ovary entirely inferior, shallow, flat on the top and sunk 

 below the rim of the calyx, with 10-12 cells; placentas on the outer 

 vi'all of the cells; ovules many in each cell. Capsule shallov^, 

 slightly convex beneath, circular in outline, v.dth 10-12 valves and 

 cells; valves horizontally spreading when expanded, narrowly del- 

 toid; exnanding-keels about half as long as the valve, ans sub- 

 contiguous into a central keel, adnate to the valve throughout their 

 length, without free tips or wings; cells open, v/ithout a trace of 

 cell-wings, and no tubercle. Seeds, in the only capsule seen, only 

 one in each cell, globose, ^vithout a nir^, smooth, glabrous. — 

 N. ^. Br., in Gard. Chron., 1927, Vol. L^^ai, 12, and Journ. Bot., 

 1928, 80. 



SiDecies 3, natives of •South ^i-frica. '-^he tyre is A, Pillansii, 

 N. -5. 3r. 



The name is derived from the Greek, apatesis, deception, be- 

 cause of the resemblance of the plant to the genus %menogyne. 



Key to the Species. 



