Lithops - Au Cactus Francophone

figure 105 . lithops urikosensis dtr.
grows on black shale and on gravelly ground, and is very difficult to find.
I have only seen withered flowers that were upon the plants upon arrival.—
N. E. Brown.
✱Lithops terricolor. (Plates 36, 36a.) N. E. Brown. In the Gardeners’ Chron‑
icle, 1926, Vol. LXXIX, p. 117, and 1922, Vol. LXXII, p. 65. The follow
ing com plete description of this plant, taken from living flowers and fruit.
Calyx com pressed, 3 1 – 2 –4 1 – 2 lines broad, 5 lobed, glabrous purplish green; lobes
4–5 1 – 2 lines long, ovate, obtuse, with membranous edges. Corolla 10–13 lines in
diam., expanding in the afternoon, slightly scented; petals about 30 in series,
4–6 lines long, 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 lines broad, linear, entire and obtuse at the apex clear
bright yellow. Stamens numerous erect, collected into a cone, unequal, 2 1 – 2 –4 1 – 2
lines long; filaments white, ciliate at the base; anthers pale yellow. Stigmas 5,
overtopping the stamens, 3–5 lines long, light yellowish. Capsule 4–4 1 – 2 lines
in diam., obconic, 2 edges at the lower part, flattish or slightly convex at
the top, whitish with 5 valves and cells, and when expanded 5–7 lines in
diam. valves 1–1 1 – 2 line long and as much in breadth, triangular in outline, pal
lid; expanding keels about as long as the valve, closely contiguous nearly to
their tips, where they diverge and are furnished with broad, obtuse membra
nous, marginal wings; cells open without cell wings. Placentas on the floor of
the cells, seeds numerous in each cell, minute, about 1 – 4 line long, subglobose,
smooth, pallid, with a brownish nipple.
Laingsburg Division: near Grootfontein (Frith); Willowmore Division,
near Miller (Frith).
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