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NOVITATES AFRICANAE 
longis; petala 2-seriata spathulato-linearia, saepius acuta, rosea, 
medio purpureo-nervata, ad 1-5 cm. longa, ad 0-2 cm. lata; stamina 
collecta, staminodiis circumdata, filamentis basin versus albis, superne 
purpureis, antheris albidis; discus annularis crenatus; ovarium supra 
convexum 5-lobum, 0-7 cm. diam. ; styli subulati acuminati purpurei, 
0-25 cm. longi. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; exact locality unknown. 
Flowered in Miss E. Struben’s garden, Rosebank, nr. Cape Town, 
Sept., 1917. (Bolus Herbarium No. 14004.) 
Described from living specimens. The flowers are exactly those 
of the section Sarmentosa, but the erect habit, and the strongly 
incurved leaves separate this from all the other species of the section. 
Mesembrianthemum purpureostylus, L. Bolus. M . forficato affine, sed habitu 
reptante, foliis longioribus, minus connatis, apice saepius obscure 
denticulatis, floribos minoribus, petalis obtusis vel subacutis differt. 
Suffruticosum, caulibus elongatis reptantibus compressis alatis, 
0- 5 — 0-7 cm. diam., nodis incrassatis, cortice brunneo vel juniore 
purpureo, ramulis erectis; folia erecta, basi connata, triquetra, valde 
compressa, apice subtruncata, obscure denticulata vel integra, nitidula, 
olivaceo-viridia, ad 6-5 cm. longa, saepius 3 — 4 cm. longa, 0-9 cm. lata, 
1- 6 cm. diam.; flores solitarii 5-meri, meridie expansi, ad 3 cm. diam., 
pedunculati, pedunculo teretiusculo, infra medium 2-bracteato, ad 
0-8 cm. longo; calyx turbinatus, segmentis subaequilongis ovatis 
obtusis, ad 0-8 cm. longis; petala lineari-oblanceolata roseo-purpurea, 
basin versus pallida, medio purpureo-vittata, 1-2 cm. longa; stamina 
staminodiaque conferta, filamentis pallidis, antheris purpureis; discus 
annularis denticulatus ; ovarium supra valde convexum, stylis per- 
brevibus triquetris acutis, capillis purpureis dense vestitis, vix 0-15 cm. 
longis. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Swellendam Div., Bonny 
Yale, J. W. Mathews (National Botanic Gardens, No. 
Allied to M. forficatum, Linn., but differs by the creeping habit, 
longer leaves which are less connate at base, usually only obscurely 
denticulate at the apex, smaller flowers, and the obtuse or rarely 
subacute petals. 
Described from living specimens which flowered freely in the 
National Botanic Gardens, Kirstenbosch, May — June, in 1917, 1918 
and 1919. 
Geigeria pilifera, Hutchinson ( Composilae-Inuleae ). 
Radix erecta, simplex, dura, pallide brunnea, leviter striata, apicem 
versus circiter 1 cm. crassa. Rami dense conferti, usque ad 7 cm. longi, 
dense foliati, in latere superiore capitula axillaria sessilia contigua 
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