This is the same plant as Pearson No. 5544, which has been erroneously distributed 
as M. geniculiflorum, Linn., from north of Nieuwerust, in the Van Rhynsdorp Division, 
which at Kew is represented by a small and very poor specimen that has been grazed by 
sheep or cattle, but is undoubtedly the same plant as M. decussatum, Thunb. 
M. deltoides, Thunb., ` FI. Cap.,” p. 418. 
One sheet with two good branches upon it of M. deltordes, Linn., from the mouitains 
of Roodezand Kloot, now New Kloof, near Tulbagh. 
M. difforme, Thunb., “ Fl. Cap.,” p. 498. 
One specimen, in unripe fruit. This is a small plant scarcely an inch high, and quit” 
different from M. difforme, Linn., as | have elsewhere pointed out, its synonymy being— 
M. exiguum, N.E.Br., in ~ a teat Soe Rote, Vol EV p. 102) (1920), 
M. difforme, Thunb., `` Prodr.,” p. 90 (1800), not of Linnaeus. 
It seems to belong to the same ane as M. rostratum, Linn. The specimen has a woody 
root stock bearing a taft of four growths. Each growth (including flower) is 8-9 lines long 
and about 4 lines in diameter, with three pairs of leaves. The basal pair are 6 lines long 
and 1-14 line broad (the dimensions here given are doubtless mach less than those of the 
_ living plant), widely spreading, united at the base into a sheath only 14 line long: they 
appear to be concave above, very rounded on the back, with a keel at the apex, which is 
truncate in side view, and has a minute point, glabrous, but covered with minute hard 
papillae or granules. The second pair are erect and united at the base into a cylindric sheath 
43—5 lines long, with two compressed, acute leaf tips 2 lines long, papillate like the lower 
leaves and keeled down the back; the sheath in the dried specimen is thin, somewhat 
membranous, and whitish. Within this sheath the third pair of leaves is enclosed, which 
appear to be free nearly to the base and just like the basal pair, but they are erect, with 
their upper surfaces pressed together. They probably ultimately spread widely and become 
in turn a basal pair. Pedicel 4-5 lines long, with a pair of small leaf-hke bracts at its base. 
This bears a nearly ripe capsule, no flower pane present on the specimen. Calyx apparently 
d-lobed to the top of the ovary ; lobes 2-23 lines long, some leaf-like, keeled and minutely 
tuberculate or papillate, the others broadly ovate, with membranous margins. Petals 
numerous, their shrivelled remains about 5 lines long when wetted. Stigmas 5, about 
14 line long, subulate, recurved-spreading. 
Sonder. in the `` Flora Capensis,” quotes this very distinct species on p. 395 as being 
a synonym of M. denticulatum, Haw., and on p. 399 as a synonym of M. namaquense, 
Sond. The former is a totally different plant, and the latter I have not seen, but it is 
described as having leaves 3 lines broad and a `` peduncle three to four times longer than 
the leaves.” So that it is evident that Thunbere’s plant is different from both. 
M. digitiforme, Thunb., “ Fl. Cap.,” p. 412. 
One sheet, with two ER growths and two flowers upon it. Collected in the Karroo 
between Olifants River and the Bokkeveld Mountains, in the Van Rhynsdorp Division. 
It is— 
M. digitatum, Ait., “ Hert. Kew.,” ed. 1, Vol. I, p. 181 (1789). 
M. digitiforme, Thunb., in “ Acad. Leop.-Car. Ephem.,” Vol. VITT, Append., p. 6 (1791) 
M. dolabriforme, Thunb., “ Fl. Cap.,” p. 424. 
Two sheets marked 1 and 2. 
Sheet 1 contains a specimen of some stemless species in fruit, with two leaves. It 
is unknown to me, and probably new, but quite indeterminable. 
Sheet 2 contains a flowering branch and a separate flower of M. dolabriforme, Linn. 
The locality given by Thunberg is ` on very dry hills at Hantam, near the Roggeveld 
Mountains,’ 
