SOME SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES OF COTYLEDON 19 
C. pecussata Sims, Bot. Mag. tab. 2518 (1824). Sims states 
that this is the C. papillaris of Haworth, but not of Thunberg, and 
that it is also the Cotyledon foliis angustis, etc., Burm. Dec. tab. 22, 
fig. 1, in which opinion we concur. This latter is one of the figures 
upon which C. spuria L. Sp. Pl. ed. ii. p. 614 (1762), Burm. Prod. 
Fl. Cap. i. p. 18 (1768), is founded. 
The following notes are from a specimen communicated by G. 
Alston from Namaqualand, cultivated in Dr. Schénland’s garden :— 
tem more or less upright. Leaves pale green, with dark red 
tip, subterete, slightly flattened inside, glabrous. Peduncle reddish 
and calyx pubescent, slightly sticky. Length of open flower + 2cm., 
corolla-tube + 1:5 em., corolla-lobes +1°3 cm. ; 
verse section of corolla in the middle pentagonal, approaching a 
circle. Corolla along the angles of the pentagon red, otherwise 
mostly yellowish. Squame small, pale yellow, greatest length 
15 mm., greatest breadth 2 mm. 
C. unevtara Lam. Eneyel. ii. p. 189 (1786). Lamarck quotes 
for this species Burman, tab. 22, fig. 1, which, as has just been 
stated, was considered by Sims to be his C. decussata. ‘The stem 
semicircular edge. The flowers, according to Burman, are red, 
pendent, carried on a terminal peduncle, which is branched at the 
summit, 
C. ungulata is figured in DC. Plant. Grasses, tab. 168. Com- 
melin’s figure of his Cotyledon africana frutescens, etc., tab. 23, one 
of the plates quoted by Linneus for his spuria, is either identical 
with or very closely allied to De Candolle’s figure. 
In order to get further particulars regarding C. ungulata Lam., 
we made application to Mons. Jules Poisson, of the Muséum 
d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris, who tells us that this plant is not 
represented in Lamarck’s herbarium. 
C. Whitei, sp. nov. Procumbens. Caulis brevis internodiis 
brevissimis. Folia alternantia crassa carnosa oblonga vel oblongo- 
lanceolata apice acuta dorso rotundata facie applanata glabra sed 
foliis junioribus delicate cerinis, 5-8 em. longa, 1°5-2-0 cm. lata. 
edunculus rotundus delicate cerinus in specimine nostro 8-florus, 
+ 20 cm. longus. Flores in cymam parvam et corymbosam dis- 
positi. Flores penduli. Calycis tubus 2 mm. longus, lobi tri- 
angulares acuti, + 2mm. longi. Corolla + 86 mm. longa, gilvo- 
Whole plant glabrous, but peduncle, flower-buds, and young 
leaves with a delicate waxy coating, which is easily rubbed off. 
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