Lithops - Au Cactus Francophone

geisoleer en nie met mekaar verbind nie; venster ondeursigtig. Blomme geel.
(Fig. 47).
Suidwes Afrika: KI. Karasberge.
✱Lithops Gulielmi. Corpusculum florens 1.5 cm. longum cum vagina 12
cm., apice vaginae 1.5 cm. latum, apice 2.2 cm. diam. cum fissura divergente
per 3–4 mm., lateribus saturate olivacea, apice rubre brunnea, rugosa, in
ter rugas translucentia ibique punctis parvis rubris ornata, margine interiore
punctis rubris distantibus ornata; pedunculus 1.1 cm. longus; receptaculum a
pedunculo haud distinctum, compressum, 3 mm. longum, 7 et 4 mm. diam.;
sepala 5, obtusa, 5.5–6 mm. longa, basi 2–4 mm. lata, petala 2–3 seriata,
ca. 34, aurea, apicem versus aurantiaca vel rubicunda, basin versus leviter
angustata, prope apicem saepius angustata acuta vel obtusa, 0.8 1 cm. longa,
ad 1.5 mm. lata; filamenta ad 7 mm. longa, interiora longissima, epapillata
vel papillis obscuris, exteriora inferne ciliate papilata, antheris albidis; discus
profunde divisus, ca. 0.3 mm. altus; ovarium levissime gradatimque ad me
dium elevatum, altitudinem disci subattingens, margine inter angulos fossis
onustum; stigmata 5.7 mm. longa.
South West Africa: Klein Karasberge (in quartz gravel on the farm
Florida), Wilhelm Triebner (Bolus Herb., No. 21976). Fl. Apr. 1937.
Ad L. Schwantesii, Dtr. valde affinis fortasseque varietas mera.
figure 46 . lithops gracilidelineata dtr.
89