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found, the stem succulents with thickened jointed stems and 

 insignificant leaves, and the leaf succulents, with turgid brittle 

 leaves of cylindric pointed contour. There are perhaps seven 

 species of the former type, including Kleinia anteuphorbia 

 whose succulent branches get to be nearly an inch thick, and 

 ten species of the latter type, including the creeping sorts with 

 short curved letives scarcely an inch long but almost half an 

 inch thick, such as Kleinia mdicans and K. divaricata, and K. 

 chordifolia, with onion-like leaves up to 8 inches long. The 

 Kleinias are associated in their natural habitat with the cactus- 

 like spurges, the Mesembryanthemums, and the Stapelias. 

 Eastward and northward in Africa they are represented by five 

 species nearly related to the Notonias of India and characterized 

 by somewhat fleshy but broader leaves and showier flowers. 

 The talk was illustrated by living specimens from the green- 

 houses of the New York Botanical Garden. 



Marshall A. Howe, 



Secretary. 



Meeting of February 13, 1923. 



The meeting of the above date was held at the jMuseum of 

 Natural History. 



The program of the evening consisted of an illustrated lecture 

 entitled "A Summer in the Colombian Andes" by Dr. Tracy 

 E. Hazen. Dr. Hazen's interesting talk was based upon per- 

 sonal experiences during the summer of 1922. A sketch of his 

 itinerary and brief descriptions of some of the more striking 

 features of the flora of the region visited were given, without 

 lantern slides, at the meeting of the Club held on October ii, 

 1922, and appear in the published minutes of that date. 



Marshall A. Howe, 



Secretary. 



