MITTEILUNGEN AUS DEM BOT. MUSEUM DER UN1VERS1T/ET ZÜRICH. XXXII. 743 



1"' amplus lobos duplo superans; lobi expansi, oblongo-elliptici, aculius- 

 culi. Slamina medio tubo inserla. filamenlis brevissimis; antheris duplo 

 longioribus oblongis, flavis, immutalis, connectivo in apiculum triangu- 

 lärem, acutum, loculis duplo breviorem, aurantiacum! produclo. Stylus? 

 fugilivus. Placenta centralis lenuis, valvulis capsulée oblong* multum 

 introflexis. Semina fasco-lutea, lamelloso-aculeolata. 



Obs. Antherarum structura tanlum in S. sulphurea Cham. SchtdI. 

 repetilur, ceterum haud simili. Has species tarnen ob affinitales nc 

 quidem in sectionem propriam separare volui. 



Patria. Colonia Capensis. Hab. ad montis latera Katriviersberge. alt. Y, 

 Yl, Kafferland (Eckion ! nr. 28). — Fl. Marl. 



Sebsea Thomasii (M. Moore) Schinz. 



Parasia Thomasii M. Moore in Journ. of Bot. XXXIX (1901), 2(50. 



Ilerba ascendens, sparsim ramosa. glaberrima. carnosula, foliis sessili- 

 bus stepe breviter amplexicaulibus rotundato-ovatis obtusis brevissime 

 c i] spiel ula tis basi rolundalis vel leviter corda lis, floribus solitariis lermi- 

 nalibus vel ex axillis summis oriundis subsessilibus, calycis ovoideo- 

 oblongi a lubo corollae bene superati segmentis lanceolalis sat longe 

 acuminalis dorso ala inflala oblonga oblusissima sursum in carinam 

 transeunte enervosa onustis. coröllse hypoerateriformis lubo elongalo 

 iuferne uniformi superne leviter amplificato limbi lobis lale obovatis 

 oblusissimis. staminibus in parte 3 / 4 lubi altitudinis insertis. filamenlis 

 brevibus. antheris oblongis glandula oblonga sat magna coronatis et basi 

 giandulis 2 (vel abortu 1) minimis appendiculatis, stylo corollae tubo 

 semia3qui longo,, stigmate oblongo. capsula 1 



Hab. Orange River Colony, 1900. Lient. H. E. Pateshall Thomas 

 (Herb Mus. Bril.l. 



Specimina radice orba usque ad 8,0 cm all. Caulis in sicco obtuse 

 alatus et aliquantulo corrugatus, circa 0,2 cm diam. Folia 1,0 — 1,3 cm 

 long, 1,0 cm lat., margine breviter revoluta, radiatim Irinervia, nervus 

 medianus subtus eminens. Calyx 1,0 cm long., in sicco 0,4 cm lat.; ala 

 circa 0,5 cm long., vix 0,2 cm lat. Corollae tubus 1,6—1,8 cm long., 

 deorsum 0,1 cm sursum 0,2 cm diam.; limbus fere 2,0 cm diam; lobi 

 0,7o cm lat. Filamenta circa 0,1 cm, antherarum loculi 0,3 cm, neenon 

 glandula 0,1 cm long. Ovarium compressum. ainbitu lanceolato-oblongum, 

 0,4 cm long, medio 0,17 cm lat. 



The leaves of Ulis beautiful utile plant are much like lliose of Sebma 

 crassultf folia Cham, el Schlecht., only not nearly so markedly aisplexi- 

 caul. The flowers of Ihe two are, of course, quite différent. No Belmontia 



