Lithops - Au Cactus Francophone

lineal lanzettlichen Petalen. Die zahlreichen Stamina haben gelben Polli
naria. Fruchtknoten im Spalt verborgen. Kapsel 5 fächerig.
S.W.A.; Halenherg bei Lüderitzbucht.
14. LITHOPS FULLERI
Lithops Fulleri. (Plates 12, 13.) Growths solitary or forming clumps of 2
or up to 5–6; top of leaves usually flat, at times scarcely convex; sides and
mar gin smooth, light dove grey with a slight violaceous tint; window large,
dark green; projections from margins into window raised above the level of
the window surface and giving the top a rough appearance; projections form
ing at times numerous small islands of the same colour as sides, thereby
dividing the window into small, more or less confluent areas; sometimes de
pressions between the ridges with interconnected impressed rust brown lines,
or at times the lines only to be seen between the short lobes of the inner
and outer margins; inner and outer margins at times deeply lobed, lobes ir
regularly shaped. Flowers white.
Kenhardt. (Fig. 38).
The rust brown lines mainly between the lobes of the margin is a spe
cific characteristic of this species. According to N. E. Brown this species is
related to L. karasmontana, but these two species have nothing in common
with one another as a comparison of the photos of the two species will show.
figure 39 . lithops fulviceps n.e. br.
81