DESCRIPTION:--_Stems_ 9-15 cm. high, 1·4-2·2 cm. in diameter, 4-angled and with concave sides, pubescent, usually green. _Teeth_ with erect whitish rudimentary leaves about 2 mm. long. _Flowers_ 2 (4 or 5 according to Brown) from near the base of the stems. _Pedicels_ 3-4 cm. long, terete, pubescent. _Sepals_ 1·7 cm. long, 2 mm. broad at the base, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, acute, pubescent. _Corolla_ when expanded 22·5 cm. in diameter, diamine-brown above, smooth and without markings, glabrous; lobes 10·5 cm. long, 2·2 cm. broad at the base, ovate, tapering to a long point, strongly revolute, ciliate with short hairs and with longer vibratile hairs. _Corona_ dark coloured; outer corona lobes 4 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, oblong, bluntly 3-lobed at the apex; the middle lobe the largest; inner corona-lobes 7 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, obovate, flattened and appearing to stand at right angles to the outer lobes, on either edge produced into a beak; the inner beak longer than the outer and recurved over the flattened portion of the corona; the outer beak entire or irregularly 2-3-lobed. * * * * * PLATE 72.--Fig. 1, corona; Fig. 2, lobe of inner corona; Fig. 3, lobe of _outer corona_. F.P.S.A., 1922. [Illustration: _73._ M. M. Page del.] PLATE 73. MESEMBRYANTHEMUM CRASSIPES. _Cape Province._ * * * * * FICOIDEAE. Tribe MESEMBRYEAE. MESEMBRYANTHEMUM, _Linn._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. i. p. 853. * * * * * =Mesembryanthemum crassipes=, _Marloth_, sp. nov. habitu _M. rosulati_ (Kensit in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. i. p. 155, pi. xxib) et _M. calcarei_, Marl. (Flora of S. A. vol. i. pl. 52) sed foliis cuneatis aspero-marginatis et floribus roseis 5-meris distincta. _Planta_ subacaulis, ramis paucis brevissimis e radice crasso carnoso ramoso. _Folia_ in rosulam aggregata, plana, cuneata, crassa, suberecta, apice retusa vel rotundata, apicem versus margineque tuberculis minutis griseis numerosis munita. _Flores_ apice ramulorum solitarii. _Calyx_ 5-fidus, lobis subaequalibus triangularibus, colore griseo foliorum. _Petala_ lanceolata, uniseriata, saturate rosea. _Stamina_ incarnata basin versus barbata. _Stigmata_ 8-10, filiformia, staminibus aequilonga. * * * * * This is a beautiful plant when in flower, owing to the contrast between the deep pink petals and the rugose grey leaves. It was collected on a stony plain of grey shale near Sutherland, at an altitude of 4600 feet, by Dr. R. Marloth, and flowered in his garden at Cape Town in September, 1921.