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Lithops - Au Cactus Francophone

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figure 93 . lithops ruschiorum (dtr. et schwant.) n.e. br.<br />

Punkten braun verwaschen und marmoriert; Teilspalte ziemlich lang, kahl.<br />

Blüten gross, über Mittag offen, 4 cm. breit. Fruchtknoten etwas hervorragend<br />

und die lanzettlichen, stumpfen Kelchzipfel ausgebreitet, bräunlich. Blumen<br />

blatter zahlreich, schmal linealspatelig, goldgelb, rückseits blasser. Staub<br />

fäden zahlreich, weisslich, nach oben gelb. Griffel fadenförmig, gelb, so lang<br />

wie die Staubfaden.<br />

134<br />

<strong>Au</strong>s Damaraland, Gross Namaland.<br />

39. LITHOPS RUSCHIORUM<br />

<strong>Lithops</strong> Ruschiorum. (Plates 34, 35.) Growths solitary or in clumps of 5 6;<br />

turbinate prominently convex in the young stage and somewhat elliptic in out<br />

line viewed from above; older stage flat, glabrous; top of lobe in young stage<br />

milky pearl grey, yellowish or yellowish ochre; older stage milky pearl grey<br />

to greenish grey; lobes in young stage with minute round irregularly shaped<br />

dots or linear depressions. Very often these depressions are branched or inter<br />

connected with one another by delicate grooves, the depressions whether dot<br />

or line remaining the dominant feature; the dots or depressions coloured<br />

prominently dark red, the connections very faintly coloured; in some cases<br />

the lines are absent. Flowers yellow. (Fig. 93, 93a.)<br />

South West Africa: Near Khan Mine, 10 km. west of Roessing and the<br />

old State Railway.

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