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NOVITATES AFRICANAE 
compressis, superne quasi alatis, acutis, stigmatibus 10 — 13, lineari- 
filiformibus acuminatis, 4 — 5 mm. longis. 
Cape Province: Western Region; Little Namaqualand, sandy flats at 
Hondeklip Bay, Oct. 1924 (not in flower), N. S. Pmans (Bolus Herbarium, 
No. 17774). 
Described from living specimens, in part from the material freshly 
collected and in part from a plant which flowered in Miss I. Arbuthnot’s 
garden, Wynberg, June 1926. Closely allied to M. albertiniense, L. Bolus, 
but may be distinguished by the clavate leaves, more numerous petals, 
and longer stigmas. 
These two species together with two others, still undescribed as far as 
I am aware, and a fifth species [commonly found on the Cape Flats which 
Mr Brown has identified as ill. dissimile, N.E.Br., or a near ally, but which 
seems to agree fairly well with Haworth’s description of M. procumbens, 
Haw., as far as that goes — the “purple- jointed” stems being very charac- 
teristic of the Cape Flats plant (= Wolley Dod, 3144)], form a groflp having 
the lobes of the ovary strongly compressed and extended outwards into 
a wing, giving to the ovary what might be described as a castellated 
appearance. Otherwise the group would fit well into the genus Cephalo- 
phyllum, N.E.Br. 
Mesembrianthemum klaverense, L. Bolus. Humile herbaceum, odore forti 
piscis, caule sat crasso, ramis primo brevibus confertis, deinde elongatis, 
patentibus vel decumbentibus, internodiis ad 2 cm. longis, ramulis 
floriferis 2 — 4 cm. longis ; folia adscendentia vel fere patentia, supra plana, 
subtus superne carinata, lateribus leviter convexis, obtusa, saepius 1 — 1-5 
cm. longa, ad 5 mm. lata, 6 mm. diam., levia glauco-viridia ; flores solitarii, 
meridie expansi, ad 1-6 cm. diam.; receptaculum clavatum, in peduncu- 
lum brevem, medio bracteatum, sensim attenuatum, cum pedunculo 
bracteisque sub lente pubescens, pilis erectis; sepala 5 vel rarius 6, inter 
se parum inaequilonga, oblonga vel lanceolato-oblonga, marginibus 
minute ciliatis, 3 membranaceo-marginatis, 4 — 6 mm. longa; petala 2 — 3- 
seriata linearia obtusa purpureo-rosea, 3 — 6 mm. longa, fere ad 1 mm. lata ; 
stamina conico-collecta, staminodiis, apicibus recurvatis, circumdata, 
filamentis barbatis, inferne albis, superne rubescentibus ; discus annularis 
crenulatus; ovarium supra leviter convexum, stigmatibus 5 — 6, subulatis 
acuminatis, 2 mm. longis. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Clanwilliam Div., Klaver, 
R. H. Compton (National Botanic Gardens, No. 
Described from living specimens which flowered at Kirstenbosch, 
May 1924. 
This appears to be very near M. molle, Ait., and is perhaps the same 
as the plant described and figured by Berger (Mesembrianthemen, p. 130). 
