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connata, vagina ad 0-2 cm. longa, subturgide 3-quetra, supra plana, 
abrupte acuta, apiculata, inf erne parum angustata, laevia, ad 1-7 cm. 
longa, 0-25 cm. lata; flores 5-meri, in cymam inaequaliter ramosam, 
ad 6 cm. longam, dispositi, vel 1 — 3-nati, 0-7 cm. diam., pedunculis 
medio 2-bracteatis, 0-8 — 1-5 cm. longis; calyx turbinatus, segmentis 
patentibus oblongo-ovatis, inter se aequilongis, 0-4 cm. longis; petala 
abeuntia; stamina subconico-collecta, staminodiis anguste linearibus, 
basi ampliatis, circumdatis, filamentis albidis, apicem versus lutescenti- 
bns, basi vel medio barbatis, 0-2 — 0-3 cm. longis; discus annularis 
crenulatus; ovarium supra conico-convexum, stigmatibus subulatis 
setaceo-acuminatis, 0-2 cm. longis. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; exact locality unknown, but 
said to come, probably, from the Clanwilliam Div. Flowered for the 
last three years in Mrs H. S. van Zijl’s garden, Claremont, near Cape 
Town, during September and October. 
This is the first instance which has come under my observation of a 
Mesembrianthemum entirely devoid of petals. 
Mesembrianthemum crateriforme, L. Bolus. Epapillosum subcaulescens 
glabrum, ramulis 2-foliatis, foliis connatis, corpusculum 3-3 cm. longum, 
apice 3-3 cm., basi 0-9 cm., latum formantibus, vagina 1-2— 1-9 cm. 
longa, oblique obtusissimeque 3-quetris, apice subtruncatis, deinde 
rotundatis, basin versus parum angustatis, a pagina superiore visis sub- 
rhomboideis, glauco-viridibus laevibus ; pedunculus inclusus, basi 2-brac- 
teatus, bracteis connatis, cum vagina 0-7 cm. longa, 2 cm. longis, superne 
cucullatis; flos solitarius; calyx subclavatus, in tubum crateriforme ultra 
ovarium productus, apice tubi subconstrictus, segmentis 6, ovatis obtusis, 
inter se subaequilongis, 0-4 — 0-5 cm. longis, quattuor membranaceo- 
marginatis; petala numerosa pluri-seriata lineari-spathulata, e supra 
dimidium inferne gradatim angustata, roseo-purpurea, 0-4 1 •> cm. 
longa, ad 0-15 cm. lata; stamina interiora inflexa, in tubum pendentia, 
0-4 cm. longa, exteriora fere erecta, 0-3 cm. longa, filamentis omnibus 
barbatis, cum antheris pollineque albis; discus annularis multifidus, 
segmentis acutis; ovarium supra planum, stigmatibus 14, radiate 
patentibus, ovario arete adpressis, vix 0-1 cm. longis. 
Cape Province: Vanrhynsdorp, E. B. Watermeyer (National Botanic 
Gardens, No. ) . 
Flowered at Kirstenbosch, June 1923. _ 
The produced calyx-tube and indexed stamens are very Mini a i o 
those of M. brevipes, Schltr. (. Roodia digitifolia, N.E.Br.), M. Pillansn, 
Kensit, and most of the species in the § Bracteata. 
Mesembrianthemum cyathiforme, L. Bolus (§ Haworthiana). (t a , < 
22 cm. altum vel ultra, ramis fere erectis, mternodns 1-5 cm.—^o ongis, 
folia patentia vel decurvata, subdaccida, juniora adscendentia, vix con- 
