Ovfiry-part of calyx t-l* line in diameter; corolla a- 



bout 3-3* lines in diameter, with petals ^-l* line long. 



I-eaves 3-9 lines long. 



Petals orange or yellow, '-Tiqualand "est and Namaqua- 



land. 3. arboriforme. 



Petals "purple" (some shade of magenta?). -"Ibany. 



4. elatum. 



Leaves 1^-4 lines long; petals light magenta. 5. illepidum, 



1. M. tuberosum, N,E. Br. — A much branched shrublet, 9-18 

 inches high, with a large subglobose or lobed tuberous rootstock. 

 Ivlain branches tortuose, often intricately branched, 1-3 lines thick, 

 with internodes 2-9 lines long, with young minutely papulose and 

 pale greyish becoming smooth and purple-brown or brovm vi'ith age. 

 Leaves spreading or ascending-spreading and recurved at the tips. 

 4-9 lines Dressed, subacute, minutely papulose, green, ^yme 4-lg 

 inch in diameter. Pedicels 2-3 lines long, ^^alyx with the shortly 

 conical ovary part about 1^ line in diameter; lobes about 1^ line 

 long, deltoid or oblong, obtuse. Corolla about 4^ lines in diemeter; 

 petals about li-l-|- line long, obtuse, reddish -fulvous and reddish 

 on the back according to Hgvrarth, but according to notes on labels 

 varyinenfrom "salmony-pink" to "dsrk magenta." Stamens collected 

 in a cone about if line long; filaments reddish, white ^t the base 

 and the inner bearded; anthers white, ex Haworth. Stigmas about J 

 line long. Capsule about l| line in diameter, in structure as for 

 the genus. 



Kesembryanthemum tuberosum, Lin. Sp. Pi., ed. I, p. 484, founded 

 upon Diiien., Hort. Elth., p. 275, t. 207, f. 264; Haw., Obs., p. 

 271; Misc. Nat., p. 89; Synop. , p. 252, and Hev. , p. 179 also in 

 Phil. Ifeg. , 1826, p. 331, under M, macrorhizum; ^alm -^yck. , ^^'lesemb., 



49, f. 2; I''^g. Bot. and Gard. , v. I, t. 6; Berger, iviesemb., p. 

 100, f. 13., III-IV. M. spihosum, 0. Kuntze, ^i^ev. Gen. Pl^.^, v. 3: 

 p. 109, not of Linne. Oelosoerma tuberosum, Schv/antes in i^Iollers 

 Deutsch Ga.rtn. 2eit., 1927 p. 258. 



Uitenhagp 'divisions 2ryi/artkops ^iver ^'alley, ^eyher 2608; 

 Somerset division t Near Bruintjes Hoogte, ^c^wan, 2095. Cradock 

 Division: ne-^r Cradock, Cooper, 496. Kiddlebrug Division: I-Iiddel- 

 burg Road, Kuntze. Orange Pree Stage; near ^'auresmith. Smith, 3916, 

 4036. 



And probably also belongs here a plant from Albany Division, 

 collected on Penrock ^arm, 10-12 miles from Grahamsto^vn, at 1500 

 feet elevation, labelled as having "purple or dark magenta flowers," 

 Dyer, 1179. 



This plant was introduced into cultivation in England over two 

 hundred years ago, as it was figured by ^iHenius in 1732, and was 

 probably sent from Uitenhage Division. It is still in cultivation, 

 but probably not very common. 



If the figure in De Candolle, Pi. Grasses, t. 78, is a correct 

 representation of the plant there named M. tuberosum, there must have 

 been tr/o sriecies in cultivation under that name, because that figure 

 represents a plant wif stouter leaves, flov/ers that are nearly twice 

 the size o^ those of M. tuberosum, and is stated to grow to 2^ feet 

 in height. 



Mr. C. A. Smith notes on this labels that in the Pauresmith area 



