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this species, but it agrees with the description in the Nova ae 
t all its leading characteristics. Hceklon 
s specimen camer ted in Flora Capensis, seem to be as 
ane to this s species. ciel s plant was from ‘‘in Carroo 
prope Olyfants rivier, 
hen dried looks ake like C. cornea, but the two are 
gute distinct. Stem thick, ascending, densely covered with thick 
form 
®, and with a couple of pairs of bracts subsimilar to the 
= but much smaller. Peeabe: white, mucronulate, slightly 
recurved. 
C. deceptor, sp. nov. Perennis, e basi ramosa, habitu et 
ambitu dalion tte C. deltoidee Thunberg, a qua differt caulibus bre- 
vioribus, foliis ae era a fesse es breves crassi, foliis 
ovata, + 2 mm. Resi Stamin pescme as subeequilonga, penal 
petala breviora, care a sraciibus. Carpella + 1:3 mm, longa. 
Squame vix *5 mm. lon 
a 
not so thick as in C. mesembrianthoides. Petals a dirty cream white, 
slightly recurved, but leaving only a very Soey opening, Whole 
flower nearly globular. Carpels about 1:3 mm. long, somewhat 
narrowed above, stigma sessi * : 
This is one of the plants ahs have been taken for (. deltoidea 
Thunb., but it appears to be very a 
C. cornuta, sp. nov. Perennis e basi ramosa, habitu C. del- 
toidee, Caulis brevis crassus, fo iis fice tectus. Folia 
crassa glauca minute papillosa subperfoliata quadrifaria ovata, dorso 
concava subearinata, intus apice subplana, basi excavata 5-14 mm. 
longa inferiora emarcida. Flores in her ox paniculatim dispositi. 
