238 Transactions of the Boyal Society of South Africa. 
This plant was found growing on the roots of a shrub {Metalasia 
muricata) in the Cape Flats. The stems are only 4-5 in. high, just 
reaching to the surface of the sandy soil and showing the flowers almost 
flush with the ground. The colour of the flowers is a dark claret, the 
pollen is nearly white. In our other species, C. dioicus, the flowers are 
bright orange, about twice the size, 6-parted, and more tubular. 
It appea.3 to be very rare, for only two groups of it were found by Mr. 
E. Dyke, although, having learnt from me what an interesting find he had 
made, he searched the locality repeatedly. Flowering in August in the 
Cape Flats near Zeekoe Vley. Marloth, No. 4978. 
Up to the present three species only of this interesting genus were 
known, viz., one in the Mediterranean region, one in Madagascar, and one 
in South Africa. 
POETULACACE^. 
Anacampseeos albissima, spec. nov. 
Caudex brevis, depressus ; caules plures recurvi, densissime stipulis- 
albissimis obtecti. Stipulse spiraliter adpressae, breviter ovatae, retusse^, 
non-laciniatae, basi angustatae et barbatas. Folia succulenta, brevissime- 
renata. Flores ignotse. Capsula globosa. 
Stems pure white, 1-4 cm. long and 4 mm. thick, more or less recurved. 
Stipules broadly ovate, entire, very concave, each stipule holding the leaf 
next above it in its hollow. Leaves 2 mm. broad and 1 mm. long. 
This plant has the habit of Anacampseros papyracea, but differs from 
it (1) by its smaller size (about one-half) and thinner stems, (2) the shape 
of the stipules, which are shorter in proportion, (3) the shape of its leaves^ 
which are broader than long. 
The flowers remain enclosed within the apical stipules as in A.papyracea,. 
but produce fruits. The stalks of the capsules lengthen on ripening 
sufliciently to free them from the surrounding stipules. 
This species is like A. papyracea, a mimicry-plant, for both occur only,, 
as far as known, on fields of white quartz. The latter species is found in 
several districts of the karroo, but neither myself nor any of the other 
collectors who have sent it to me did meet with it in other surroundings. 
The same is the case with this species, which I found in several localities 
of German South- West Africa, but only on reefs or outcrops of pure white 
quartz, where the plant could be detected only with great difficulty. 
LEGUMINOSiE. 
BORBONIA PINIFOLIA, speC. noV. 
Frutex bipedalis, foliis simplicibus, teretibus, filiformibus. Flores. 
racemosi, parvi ; calyx subregularis, 5-dentatus, Bafnice similis ; corolla. 
