165 away. In other details as for the genus. 



■Albany ^ivjsions ?ish i^lver "Valley; betvreen Committees and 

 Hunts Drift, 1,500 feet, Dyer 890 (the tjrpe), and Hunts i^rift, 

 Rylling, 975. 



This is well distinguished from allied species by its taller 

 habit and compact cymes of smaller flowers. 



5. M. illepidTim, N. E. Bp.— Plant about 9-10 inches high, 

 glabrous, much brrnched. I=^in branches 24--4 lines thick at the 

 lower part, v/ith internodes 3-6 lines long, •when young minutely 

 rapulose and whitish in the dried^ state, becoming brovm v/ith age. 

 leaves small, 1-1-4 lines long, ^-t line thick, compressed-subterete, 

 obtuse, somewhat recurved at the apex, microscopically papulose, 

 ^reen. Flowers very smell, in terminal brecteate cymes, v;ith bracts 

 1^-1 line^long. Pedicels 1-2 lines^long. Calyx with the overy- 

 nart 1-li line in diameter; lobes t line long, deltoid, obtuse. 

 Corolla apparently about 3 lines in diameter; petals 1 line long, 

 1/5-1/4 line broad, obtuse, "light magenta." Stamens about ^ 



line Ion , apparently 

 L66 white. Stigmas approximately i line long, subulate. Capsules 



about li line in diameter. In all other characters as for the gen- 

 us. 



Bedford I^ivisionJ on the road from Cpghamstown to i^edford, in 

 karroid veld, Dyer 2336 (the type). Albany Division* karooid area 

 off the Cradock Road, 7-8 Mies from Grahamstovm, Bpitten 38. 



In appearance the branches of this plant are much like those 

 of T-. tuberosum, but the leaves anc! flov'ers are smaller. Britten 38 

 appears to belong here, but sometimes forms a bush 14 inches or 

 more high. Its rootstock is formed of e cluster of stout, fusiform, 

 tuberous roots, ^ inch or more thick. 



6. I', albanicum, N. E. Br.— Plant about 9-15 inches high, 

 glabrous,. Main branches apparently decumbent at the base, then 

 erect or ascending, branching, 1-1* line thick belov:, vdth internodes 

 mostly 6-9 lines long, minutely papulose and ash-grey v/hen young, 

 becoming smooth and brown with age. ^eaves spreading, more or less 

 recurved at the tips, 3-5 lines long, i-l* line tl-ick, apparently 

 flattened or slightly channelled on the face and obtusely keeld on 



the back, probably compressed, minutely parulose. Cymes 1-2* inches in 

 diameter, lax. Pedicels 4-7 lines long. Calyx subequa^ ly 5-lobed, 

 the ovnry-part about ih line in diameter, shortly obconic; lobes 1-lt 

 line in length, deltoid, obtuse. Corolla apparently about 3-J lines 

 in diameter; ratals li-l-n^ line long, linearV obtuse', "light magenta." 

 Stamens about 1 line long. S-tigmas about | line long, subulate; 

 top of the ovary convex. Capsule 2-2^ lines in diameter. In all 

 others characters as for the genus. 



Albany Division J seven miles from Grphamsto'/vn along the Cradock 

 Road, 5,000 feet alt. Dyer 1308. I^. of the late Dr. N. E. Brown. 



