Menonvillea M. aptera Ph. Johnston 5640 Werdemann 835 - looks very much like the Johnston specimen M. comberi - Comber 914 - "Annual or from loose sandy soil in open places. Flowers pure white, sweet scented leaves soft, greenish or reddish" looks like a perennial, leaves cuneate, crowded at base; stems up to 1dm. but not fully elongated; flo. very numerous; pubescence simple, extending to sepals and fruit. M. filifolia: Specimen in herb. Kew has a label printed "Ex horto bot. Petropolitana" with a small sticker pasted on reading "Received Nov. 1867". The name on the label "Menonvillea filifolia F.& M." appears to be in Fischer's handwriting. There is no other information on the sheet, but it is probably an isotype. This specimen is the same as Cumming 889 (also at Kew) - cumming 889 we marked in pencil The leaves are linear, the lower ones often lobed, stems branched above, the whole plant is glabrous, the fruit is slightly stipitate, outer sepals saccate; petals narrow, ca. 1 cm. long. However, the noted under me. repipes.