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NOYITATES AFRICANAE 
Cape Province: Western Region; Little Namaqualand, Hondeklip Bay, 
at the coast, Oct. 1924, N. S. Pillans (Bolus Herbarium, No. 17759). 
Described from living specimens, partly those freshly collected, partly 
from a plant which flowered in Mr N. S. Pillans’ garden, June 16, 1926. 
One living flower and three dried ones only seen. The name is in reference 
to the petals being all so nearly equal in length. 
Mesembrianthemum wittebergense, L. Bolus. Nanum subcaespitosum gla- 
brum, ca. 2-5 cm. altum; rami saepius 4-foliati, sed inferne per totam 
longitudinem foliis induratis et reliquis onusti, more sectionis “Micro- 
phylla, ” axillis saepe gemmiferis; folia adscendentia subcymbiformia, 
superne carinata, supra plana, lateribus convexis, basi connata, vagina 
fere 1 mm. longa, sat conspicue albo-tuberculata, praecipue carina 
marginibusque, tuberculis minute granulatis, ad 4 mm. longa, basi fere 
ad 4 mm. lata, 2 mm. diam.; flores solitarii, meridie expansi, 1-4 cm. 
diam., pedunculis 2 — 3 mm. longis, inter bracteas inclusis; receptaculum 
turbinatum; sepala 5, inter se subaequilonga, lanceolata vel ovato- 
lanceolata, obtusa, 2 membranaceo-marginata, 4 mm. longa; petala ca. 
25, 1-seriata linearia, saepius acuta roseo-purpurea, 6 mm. longa, vix 
1 mm. lata; stamina conico-collecta, 1-5 mm. diam., staminodiis purpureis 
circumdata, filamentis parce barbatis, inferne pallidis, superne purpureis, 
ad 4 mm. longis, antheris pollineque albis; discus conspicuus annularis 
crenulatus; ovarium supra vix convexum, inconspicue 5-lobum, stigma- 
tibus 5, filiformibus acuminatis, vix 4 mm. longis. 
Cape Province: Karroo Region; Laingsburg Div., Witteberg, alt. 
4000 ft., R. H. Compton (National Botanic Gardens, No. J-ff-). 
Described from living specimens which flowered in the Gardens during 
the latter part of September, 1926. 
Mesembrianthemum graniticum, L. Bolus. Humile, glabrum, ramis gracilibus 
decumbentibus vel reptantibus, saepe ad 11 cm. longis, vel brevioribus 
confertis, ramulis floriferis erectis, dense 2 — 4-foliatis; folia fere erecta 
oblonga obtusa apiculata carinata, supra plana, lateribus leviter convexis, 
levia glauco-viridia, angulis rubro-marginatis, margine distincta polita, 
0- 5 — 1-1 cm. longa, basi 4 — 5 mm. lata; flores solitarii, meridie expansi, ad 
1- 2 cm. diam., pedunculis 6 — 8 mm. longis, prope basin bracteatis, bracteis 
ad 5 mm. longis ; receptaculum subclavatum, in pedunculum sensim abeuns ; 
sepala 5 — 6, inter se fere aequilonga vel interdum 1 — 2 distincte breviora, 
oblonga vel oblongo-lanceolata, 1 late membranaceo-marginatum, cetera 
plus minusve anguste marginata, 3 — 5 mm. longa; petala ca. 38 densa, 
2 - 3-seriata linearia, fere truncata, saepe emarginata, rosea, marginibus 
saturatis, inferne pallidiora, inter se fere aequilonga, 5 mm. longa, vix ad 
1 mm. lata; stamina conico-collecta, staminodiis filiformibus, superne 
purpureis, circumdata, vix 2 mm. diam., filamentis superne purpureis, 
