AND ANATOMY OF THE GENUS MTSTEOPETALON. 



153 



M. Thomii. 

 Male floioer. 

 1. Anterior bract oblong. 



2. 



Posterior bracts | length of 

 anterior bract. 

 3. Anterior perianth lobe 

 rather shorter than posterior. 



M. POLEMANNI. 



Male Jlower. 



1. Anterior bract spathulate. 



2. Posterior bracts \ length of 



anterior bract. 



3. Anterior perianth lobe 

 length of posterior lobes. 



Present Material. 



Male flower, 



1. Anterior bract spathnlate. 



2. Posterior bracts ^ length of 



anterior bract. 



3. Anterior perianth lobe rather 

 shorter than posterior lobes. 



4. Perianth laminae slightly 4. Perianth laminae very con- 4. Perianth laminte slightly 



concave. 



cave. 



concave. 



I 



5. Pollen cubical with fluted 5. Pollen cubical with fluted 5. Pollen cubical or pentagonal 



angles. 



angles. 



without fluted angles. 



Female Jlower. 



w 



6. Anterior bract oblong 



Female flower . 



Female Jlower. 



6. Anterior bract rather spath- 6. Anterior bract lanceolate 

 tilate (in fig.)- 



7. Posterior bracts much 7. Posterior bracts equal to 7. Posterior bracts shorter than 



ioni>;er than anterior in the 



anterior. 



anterior. 



fruiting state. 



8. Perianth subglobose 



ellipsoid. 



9. Perianth margin 3-lobed. 



or 



8. Perianth tubular. 



10. Ovary ovoid. 



11. Stigma discoid 



8. Perianth subglobose 

 campanulate. 

 9. Perianth margin markedly 9. Perianth- margin multifid. 

 trifid. 



10. Ovary oblong. 



11. Stigma not swollen. 



or 



10, Ovary ovoid. 



11. Stigma trilobed. 



In point 1 only ray material agrees with M. Folemanni ; in points 3, 4, 8 and 



with Jf. Thomii \ in points 2, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 11 it agrees with neither 



I 



able, through the kindness of Professor H. Dixon, F.Il.S 



Trinity Coll 



Dublin, to explore Harvey's Herbarium housed there, but unfortunately we were unable 

 to find the type-specimens, and since my return Professor Dixon writes me to the effec^t 

 that after another thorough investigation he has failed to discover them. Under ■ the 

 circumstances, and seeing that my material as above 



described 



be said to 



either of Harvey's species, I am obliged to consider my plants as belonging to a new 

 species, to which I would desire to give the name of J/. Sollyi in recognition of it.s 

 collector, Mrs. Solly, of Sir Lowry's Pass, Cape Colony, with the specific characters 

 given in the above table. 



ElBLIOGRAPET. 



Harvey, \V. H. 



ti 



Natural 



o 



f 



Blume/' Aanals of Natural History, vol. ii. no. 12 (1839) pp. 385-388, tt. 19, 20. 



GriffitHj W. "On the lioot Parasites referred by authors to Rhizautheae ; and on various plants 



related to them." 1 

 Hooker, J. D.— " On the 



cure 



vol. xix. (1815) pp. 303-347, tt. 34-39. 



Atfiuities of the Balanophoraceie." Trans. Liun. Soc. 



vol. xxii. (1856) pp. 1-68, tt. 1-16. 



Harvey, W. H., & 0. W. Sonder.— Flora Capensis, vol. ii. 18G1-2, p. 573 

 Bentham, G., & J. D. Hooker.— Genera Plautarum, vol. iii. pt. 1, p. 234. 



