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SOME NEW SOUTH AFEICAN SUCCULENTS. Part III.* 
By E. Maeloth, Ph.D., M.A., F.E.S.S.Af. 
(Plate I.) 
(Eead March 16, 1910.) 
CEASSULACEiE. 
Cotyledon nana, spec. nov. (Sect. Spicatce.) 
Acaulis vel subacaulis. Eadix tuberosa. Folia plerumque radicalia, 
crassa, cuneato-ovalia, superne sub-caniculata, subtus convexa, purpurea. 
Pedunculus 10-15 cm. altus ; inflorescentia dichotomo-cymosa, pauciflora. 
Flores breviter stipitati, erecti, tubulosi, tubo cylindrico, sub-inflato ; 
linibo amplo, purpureo ; laciniis brevibus triangularibus radiatis demum 
recurvis. 
Leaves 10-15 mm. long (in wild plants) and 5-8 mm. broad, fleshy, 
about half as thick as broad, concave or grooved in the centre, sometimes 
speckled with purple above. In cultivated plants the leaves are more 
elongate and not purple underneath. Peduncle red, the terminal inflo- 
rescence branching dichotomously, bearing 3 to 5 flowers. Pedicels short, 
gradually passing into the conical calyx-tube, the combined length being 
10-12 mm. Teeth of calyx lanceolate, 2 mm. long, appressed to the 
corolla. Tube of the corolla yellowish green, slightly inflated in the upper 
third, 12 mm. long ; the limb deep purple, rotate at first, then recurved, 
the segments forming about two-thirds of the limb, shaped like an equal- 
sided triangle, 3 mm. long. Anthers of upper stamens just reaching the 
mouth of the tube, the other stamens much shorter and their anthers 
smaller. Carpels 5 ; squamae cuneate-elongate, greenish. Follicles 5, 
very pointed, 8 mm. long. 
The plant would agree with Burchell's description of G. parvula, with 
the exception of the statement "pedicels capillary," as these are short and 
stout in our plant. 
* Part I. in Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, vol. xviii., 1907. 
Part II. in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, vol. i., p. 403, 1909. 
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