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_ posely modified by him : it is, however, quite clear that Solander’s 
' name was the earliest published, and the species must ee 
stand as M. digitatum Ait., M. digitiforme Thunb. ranking as 
synonym. The Species is said by Harvey to be ‘‘ now wanting in 
Herb. Thunb.”’; and, from its absence from Herb. Brit. Mus., and 
the fact that Solander’s MS. description was copied from Thunberg, 
I suppose that Masson himself did not preserve dried specimens of 
i The species does not seem to have been since met with, and 
no figure has been published, so that the drawing, bearing as 1t. 
does noe ts name ‘‘ Mesembryanthemum digitiforme MSS.” in Solander’ 8 
bade is — the type of the species, which is not in the Kew 
M. iliaten Ait. (1789), Thunb. (1791) is remarkable for a 
long deflex xed hairs which ciliate the bases of the leaf-sheaths ; 
Thunberg’s specimens, and gives no other authority for its oceur- 
rence at the Cape. But in Herb. Brit. Mus. are three specimens 
runs, ‘‘ Habitat in locis depressis infra bockland berg et in Haud- 
tom ad Prom : ossibly, however, the specimens are 
really from the same locality, as Thunberg and Masson mad 
“The g drawings are Monsonia lobata and M. speciosa, 
both iitenitiroed * cultivation in this country by Masson ; Melasma 
scabrum ; Calodendron capense ; othmannia capensis ; ae obanche 
sanguinea ; Vahlia capensis ; Euphorbia meloformis ; Augea capensis ; t 
Harveya capensis ; Ornithoglossum glaucum 
With the above is a drawing, “sent from the Cape of Good 
Hope by Mr. Brant, 1772,” of the remarkable Gethyllis undulata— 
a plant which Herbert (Amaryllidacee, 186), who described it, says 
was then “‘only known from Masson’s specimen” in Herb. Banks 
—a statement which apparently still holds good, as the species is 
* It would appear, however, from ‘ Hort. Kew.’ ii. 181, that Masson sent 
nd et. to Kew: its record runs, “ Cape of Good Hope. Mr. F. Masson. 
t sligtion, so far as I can ascertain, have pea published of this interesting 
Plant, which Solander named and described in his MSS. as Piotes teretifolia. 
are (Fl. Cap. i. 355) ‘says of the generic name ‘‘ unexplained by Thunberg,” 
d gives no explanation of it. commemorates Andrew Auge, a Ca 
or contemporary with Thunberg and Masson, whose plants are, as pre- 
viously stated, in Herb. Mus. Brit unberg gives the following account of 
plures annos vitam heic transegit et jussu Gubernatoris Tulb 
itinera ad interiora ra regionis loca, plantas colligendi caussa, instituit. Ex ejus 
iteratis collectionibus ditati fuerunt Horti botanici foederati Belgii, imprimis 
Ro ensis et serge es. non rir oe maxime e Burmanni, 
yeni, Linnei, Bergié-« iorum.”—Fl. Cap., 3 
