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NOVITATES AFRICANAE 
sive apice conniventibus, alis loculi nullis, seminibus axillaribus, minute 
tuberculatis, ca. 1 mm. diam. 
Cape Province: Western Region; Little Namaqualand, abundant in the 
coast-belt between Port Nolloth and the Orange River, extending east- 
ward to base of Richtersveld mountains, flower and fruit, Oct. 1926, 
N. S. Pillans, 4927. 
Described from fresh material. The flowers, however, were in fairly ad- 
vanced bud only, and opened in water ; and this may account for the corru- 
gated or waved appearance of the petals which gave them a very different 
look from those represented in the figure of the type. (Honk. Ic. PI. t. 1820.) 
Mr Pillans describes the range of the species as being: “From Port 
Nolloth due east to Anenous at base of mountains; northward from Port 
Nolloth to the mouth of the Orange River, and eastward along the south 
bank of the river to Arris Drift; from there south-east to Kuboos; from 
Kuboos southwards to Anenous.” 
Mesembrianthemum Pocockiae, L. Bolus (§ Scabrida). Fruticulus gracillimus 
erectus glaber, intricate ramosus, 9 cm. altus; rami sat rigidi, interdum 
fere capillaribus, internodiis saepius 4 — 8 mm. longis, ramulis apicem 
versus dense foliatis; folia fere erecta, demum patentia, saepe leviter 
incurvata, sat turgida, dorsaliter rotundata, superne obscure carinata, 
supra leviter canaliculata, acuta, parce tuberculata more sectionis, 
tuberculis sat prominentibus, glauco-viridia purpurascentia, ad 1-1 cm. 
longa, ad 2 mm. lata diametroque; flores solitarii, meridie expansi, 2 cm. 
diam., pedunculo gracillimo, 7 — 9 mm. longo, basin versus bracteato; 
receptaculum turbinatum; sepala 5, inter se aequilonga, lanceolata acuta, 
ad 4 mm. longa, 3 late membranaceo-marginata; petala ca. 50, 4-seriata, 
interiora quam extima multo breviora sed haud multo angustiora, 
linearia, e medio inferne parum angustata, obtusa, 4 — 9 mm. longa, ad 
1 mm. lata vel parum ultra; staminodia paucissima; stamina erecta 
sublaxa, 2 mm. diam., filamentis pallidis, ad 2-5 mm. longis, interioribus 
barbatis, antheris pollineque aureis; discus annularis, obscure crenulatus, 
3 mm. diam. ; ovarium supra leviter convexum, stigmatibus subulatis 
acuminatis, 1-5 mm. longis. 
Cape Province: Prince Albert Div., Swartberg, June, 1926, Mary A. 
Pocock, S. 158. 
Described from a living specimen which flowered at the Bolus Her- 
barium, Kirstenbosch, October, 1926. 
Allied to the species in this section having laxly-disposed stamens, but 
very distinct from M. emarginatum, L. and its nearest allies by the solitary 
flowers on short peduncles, smaller flowers with entire petals, and in other 
respects. 
Mesembrianthemum erectum, L. Bolus (§ Tumidula). Fruticulus erectus 
