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MESEMBRYANTHEMUM maximum 

 Moon-leaved Fig-marygold. 



ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. FicotDEiE, Jussieu gen. 315. Biv. II. Germen interim* 

 MESEMBRYANTHEMUM. Supra vol. S.fol. 260. 



Biv. VII. Rubicunda, ramis sitffrutescentibus glabrh, joins (dkmone primii 

 excepta ) compre$so*triquetris nitdis: apicibus recik, petalis (M. edule, 

 M. heteropetalo> et M. dilatato except is) rubicundis. 



M. maximum > foliis acinaciformi-Iunatis peHucido-punetatis subconnatis, 

 caule recto. WilUL enum. 1. 539. 



Mesembryanthemum maximum* Haxvorth mesemb. 402. n. 102. Ejusd. 



misc. nat. 66. n. 121. Ejusd. succ. 292. n. 183. llort. Kctv. ed/2. 3. 



233.; 



Radix lignosa. Caulis lignosus, 'tobustus, $trictu$ 9 arborem quasi in com* 

 pendio menixens^ subregulariter ramosus, e majoribus generis. Rami pate)ites f 

 numerosi, subpi/ramidate dispositi, robusti, firmly jun lores and piles glauco~ 

 virentes conferte Jbliosiy seniores teretiores f lignosi. FoL lunulaia. v. compres- 

 sissime triquetra, incurvesceniia carina acuta veniricosd subcariilagineo-margi- 

 natd obtusiuscula, opposita y subamplexicavlia potius quam connata, versus 

 basin plurimum crassiora prcesertim a parte interiori, majora subbiuncialt'a, 

 latitudine superior e Jere ? partis uncus, laterali subunciali, superne versus 

 sensim in aciem extenuata, glabra f puncticulis minutis serliipellucidis irregula* 

 riter conspersa, pulvisctdo albo canescentia. (Ex anglico D. Haworth vers.) 

 Flores (forte imperfecta obfrigorem anni lempestatis) seinel tantum vidi, ter- 

 minates ternati (quinati) parvi. Pedunculi angulati bracteis 2 magnis falii- 

 Jbrmihus instructi. Cal. S-fidus laciniis incequatibus 9 2 exterioribus futscepius 

 in cceiern) majoribus. Cor. rubicunda 9 petalis linear ibus y nnmerosis. Germ. 

 S-angulalum. Haworth in misc. nat. ad. loc. cit. 



We are obliged to Mr. William Ross, of the Eden Nur- 

 sery at Stoke Newington, for the sample of the, till now 

 unfigured, species which has afforded the drawing. It was 

 introduced from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Masson in 

 1787; and is one of those that are peculiarly shy in pro- 

 ducing bloom with us, though marked in the Hortus 

 Kewensis as blossoming from March to December. The 

 specific title was adopted by Mr. Haworth in allusion to the 

 general size of the plant, not of the flower, which is rather 

 small in proportion. 



It belongs to the division that expand their flowers in 

 the forenoon. The following description is taken chiefly 

 from Mr. Haworth's work on this genus. 



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