clofely allied fpecies, all nativés of the fouthern promontory 
of Africa. Loeruine has likewife infifled upon the propriety 
of keeping Anacampleros diftin&, from Portulaca; but he pro- 
bably had in view the American flat-leaved {pecies, which, as 
fuggetted by Hawortu, -we would retain under Apanson’s 
genus Tarinum, adopied by Jussizu and Witipenow. 
The Cape Species appear to us to be as diftiné&t from thefe as 
Talinum is from Portulaca, According to Mr. Haworrn, 
all the fpecies of Anacampferos have a flender conical feed- 
veffel of five or fix valves, which would afford a fufficient 
diftin@iion from the three-valved f{pecies of Talinum; but 
the capfule of thé very fpecies on which we are now treating, 
is defcribed by Dryanpber as three-valved; as is that of 
P. Anacampferos Linn. by other authors. Probably the valves 
in decaying may fplit in the middle, a circumflance not very 
unufual, and which may have impofed upon Mr. Haworrs. 
We hope hereafter to take an opportunity of examining the 
fru€tification of this genus more carefully. 
~This plant was found by the late Mr. Masson at Carro, 
beyond Hartequas Kloof. Flowers in Auguft and September. 
Requires the fame treatment as the Cape {pecies of Aloe and 
Mefembryanthemum, 
