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NOVITATES AFRICANAE 
gracili, supra medium bracteato, apice rugosus, cum aetate subter 
receptaculum subconstricto ; bracteis 1-3 — 3 cm., saepius 2-5 cm., longis; 
receptaculum cum aetate globosum, utrinque carinatum, saepe 1-7 cm. 
longum; sepala 5, inter se inaequalia, 1-1 — 1-7 cm. longa, 3 membranaceo- 
marginata; petala ca. 3-seriata, linearia, acuta vel subacuta integra 
lilacino-rosea, 1 — 2-5 cm. longa; stamina ad 7 mm. longa, filamentis albis, 
interioribus barbatis, antheris pollineque pallidis; discus inconspicuus 
crenulatus; ovarium planum, medio leviter elevatum, ovulis parietalibus, 
stigmatibus 10, anguste subulatis, acuminatis, 1 — 1-2 cm. longis; fructus 
globosus, utrinque carinatus, odore pomorum, sepalis herbaceo-persisten- 
tibus, 2-2 cm. longus, 2-8 cm. diam. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Robertson Div., near Montagu, 
“by the stream (with M. edule) in the gorge, Montagu Baths, and also by 
the stream in Douker Kloof, Montagu,” fl. Oct. 1921, M. M. Page (Bolus 
Herbarium, No. 17890). Locality uncertain, C. F. Juritz, 105. 
Described from ample living material which flowered in Dr C. F. 
Juritz’s garden, September 1921, and Miss Page’s collections. The nearest 
ally is C. Fourcadei, L. Bolus, from which it differs in the shape and 
colouring of the leaves and, especially, in the receptacle not being pro- 
longed beyond the ovary to form a tube. 
Carpobrotus Yanzijliae, L. Bolus. Rami valde 4-angulati, internodiis 1-5 — 
6 cm. longis, ramulis floriferis saepius dense 6 — 8-foliatis, cum flore ad 
9 cm. longis; folia fere erecta, rarius patenti-adscendentia, supra plana, 
lateribus planis vel levissime convexis, luteo-viridia, 5 — 7 cm. longa, 
6 — 7 mm. lata, ad 1-1 cm. diam.; flores ca. 8 cm. diam., meridie expansi; 
pedunculi 2 — 2-3 cm. longi, medio bracteati, bracteis basin sepalorum 
attingentibus ; receptaculum clavatum, leviter lateraliter compressum, 
1-5 — 2 cm. longum; sepala 5, inter se inaequilonga, 1-2 — 2-3 cm. longa; 
petala ca. 3-seriata, linearia, acute acuminata, pulcherrime rosea, basi 
pallidiora, ad 3 cm. longa, ad 2 mm. lata; stamina erecta laxa, vel interiora 
incurva, intima inflexa, ca. 2 cm. diam., filamentis albis, ad 6 cm. longis, 
omnibus inferne plus minusve barbatis, antheris pollineque dilute luteis; 
discus inconspicuus annularis; ovarium in receptaculo omnino inclusum, 
supra planum, nisi leviter convexum medium versus, stigmatibus 10- — 11, 
erectis vel fere erectis, anguste subulatis acuminatis, 5-5 mm. longis; 
fructus subpyriformis, utrinque conspicue carinatus, ad 3-7 cm. longus, 
apice 2-6 cm. diam., sepalis herbaceo-persistentibus neque accrescentibus, 
pedunculo erecto. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; exact locality uncertain but 
probably between George and Oudtshoorn, Mrs Dorothy van Zijl (Bolus 
Herbarium, No. 18553). 
This has flowered for several years in Mrs van Zijl’s garden, at Clare- 
