Plate 2555. 



RHIGIOPHYLLUM SQUARROSUM, Hochat. 



Campanulace;e. 

 R. squarrosum, Hochst. in Flora, xxv. p. 232 (sp. uniea). 



Fruticulus a basi ramosus, erectus, 1-2 ped. alt us, undique glaber, 

 ramis rectis rigidis. Folia crassa, coriacea, arete quadrifariam im- 

 bricata, sessilia, decurrentia, subrotundata, maxima 4 lin. lata, bre- 

 vissime apiculata, margine incrassata, costa infra elevata. Flares atro- 

 coerulei (Bolus), ad apices ramorura congesti, sessiles vel subsessiles. 

 Calycis lobi laneeolato-oblongi, acuti, 2-2^ lin. longi. Corolla? hypo- 

 crateriformis tubus gracillimus, circiter pollicaris, limbi lobis oblongo- 

 lanceolatis vix acutis. Stamina inclusa, juxta faucem affixa, filamentis 

 brevissimis. Ovarium 3-loculare, loculis pluriovulatis, ovulis pendulis ; 

 stylus breviter exsertus. 



South Africa : mountains between Caledon and Elim, from 700 to 

 1,000 feet, Bolus, 8525. 



So far as we can ascertain, this singular campanulaceous plant had 

 not been collected since Krauss first discovered it, about the year 1840, 

 until Mr. Harry Bolus re-discovered it, in the same district, in 189G. 

 Mr. Bolus's specimens are apparently the only ones in this country. — 



W. Bottino Hemsley, 



Fig. 1, a flower; 2, vertical section of ovary, with style and part of calyx-limb ; 

 3, corolla laid open, showing attachment of stamens ; 4, stamens. All enlarged. 



