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M. loreum, Thunb.“ Fi. Cap:,” p. 421: : | ME 
One flowerless specimen from Upsala Botanic Garden. Thunberg states that it grows 
on the Karroo between Olifants River and the Bokkeveld: The specimen, however, 
does not belong to M. lorewm, Linn.. but is. probably M. crassi folium, Linn., and is identical 
with Schlechter No. 8316 (from Zout River) and Wolley Dod No. 1625 (from Governor’ s 
Cottage). 
M. micans, Thunb., ` Fl. Cap.,” p. 426. 
One sheet containing three specimens, collected below the Bokkeveld Mountains. 
This plant is not JM. micans, Linn., and it is erroneously quoted as a svnonym of 
M. collinum, Sond., by Sonder in `` Fl. Cap.,” Vol. Il, p. 443. That species, however, 
was founded upon specimens collected by Zeyher near the Gauritz River, in the Mossel 
Bay Division, a widely different locality from that of Thunberg’s plant, which is a different 
species and identical with Pearson No. 4903, from Hottentots Kloof, in the Ceres Division, 
which is stated to be a ` weak herb, $—1 foot ; among bushes.” But it is evidently weak 
and lanky and only partly woody from. growing among or in the shade of bushes ; otherwise, 
it 1s A aia identical with Thunberg's shrubby specimens. 1 propose the following name 
for 1 
N. exspersum, N.É.Dr 
M. micans, Thunb., ` Prodr..” p. 91, not of Linnaeus. 
\ dwarf shrublet, 6-12 inches high, with woody branches about ? line thick and more 
slender branchlets. Branches opposite, rather widely ‘diverging at their origin,’ with 
internodes 3-15 lines long, the young parts ascending, curved or flexuose, with a smooth’ 
brown bark on the old parts, and the young leafy branchlets purplish or brownish, coveted 
with scattered longitudinally Som pre ssed papillae. Leaves opposite, 2—4 lines (5- —6 lines 
on Pearson’s specimen) long, 4 line thick on the dried specimens, erect or more or less 
spreading, not united at the Rana, distinctly concave-channelled down the face, rounded ~ 
on the back, obtuse, of equal thickness throughout, not thickened at the apex, mostly” 
straight, very densely covered with smaller papillae than those on the stem, whitish. 
Flowers solitary, terminal ; pedicels 11-23 inches long, slender, brownish or purplish, with 
scattered papillae like those on the stem, which become crowded at the apex. Calyx 
\-lobed down to the top of the short and very broadly obconic ovary, densely papillate; 
lobes subequal, 15-2 lines long, deltoid or deltoid-ovate, acute, two (or three 7) of them 
with broad membranous margins, not appendaged. Petals numerous, 4-45 lines long, 
linear, obtuse or notched at the apex, apparently of some shade of red. 
M. moniliforme, Thunhb., ` Fl. Cap..” p. 415. 
One sheet. containing two good specimens of the plant in a resting condition, that 1s, 
without either leaves or flowers. The original reference is— . 
M. moniliforme, Thunb., in ` Nov. Act. Acad. Leop.-Car. Ephem.,” Vol. VIII, Append., 
p.. 7 (1791). 
Thunberg’s specimens represent the plant as about 3 inches high, with stout, crowded — 
branches 4—6 lines thick, with ae. annular constrictions 1 -1} line apart, giving 
them the appearance of being formed of a number of flat, button-like beads, ei brown, 
olabrous. 
This is not guite like the plant | described and figured, partly from emo in the 
` Journal of the Linnean Society,” Vol. XLV, p. 116, t. 5, f. 10; as the joints of that plant, 
as | remember them. were certainly not so flattened as in Thunberg’s specimens, yet for 
all that, it may be specifically the same. 
Thunberg collected it on hills near the Olifants River, towards the north, in the Van 
Rhynsdorp Division. 
M. noctiflorum, Thunb.. ` Fl. Cap. p. 414. 
One specimen from a plant cultivated in Upsala Botanic Garden, It is M. 
Linn. ; 
