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MESEMBRYANTHEMUM elongatum. £. 
Dwarf tuberous Fig-Marygola. 
ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNLA. 
Nat. ord. Ficoipem. Jussieu gen. 315. Div. II. Germen inferum. 
MESEMBRYANTHEM UM. Supra vol. 3. fol 260. en Inforum 
Div. IV. Capitata. Foliis dens? alternègue imbricato-capitatis longissimis, 
impunctatis; caudice præ foliorum pondere decumbente, petalis anguatis- 
simis deorsüm plus minus ciliatis; stylis numerosis, germinibus depréssis. 
Haworth MSS. 
M. elongatum, foliis subspithamzis obtusè triquetris semiteretibusve, canali- 
culatis, glauciusculis, radice tuberosà carnosa. Haworth MSS. 
Mesembryanthemum elongatum. Haworth mesembr. 236. Ejusd. misc. nat. 
. - 40. et synops. pl. succ. 228. . Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 223, 
(2) corolla 5-unciali, odore hircino, petalis subcapillaceis pube long’ flexuosá 
ciliatis. Haw. MSS. 
(8) corolla 4-unciali, odore subhircino, petalis exterioribus deorsàm pilis 
rectis brevibus paucissimis nudo oculo vix manifestis ciliatis. Haw. MSS. 
Radix deformis, crassa, sublobata, magnitudine feré ovi anatini: (è sicco 
è var. a. in tabulá delineata). Caudex simplicissimus, debilis, s 
erecto-procumbens, simul cum pedunculo terminali dodrantalis v. ultra, viridi- 
lutescens, deorsùm foliorum vestigiis subarticulato-circinatus. Folia termi- 
nalia, ante florescentiam in fasciculum laxiús congregata, dodrantalia, septus 
semiteretia, suprà plùs minùs canaliculato-concava, superiora sensim mi- 
mora semipedalia aliquantümque distantiora: omnia erecto-patentia, de- 
emarcesceñtia, meque decidua. Pedunculus terminalis, teres «qua- 
bilis, debilis, 4-uncialis, purpurascens, basi bracteis 3 foliiformibus ver- 
ticillato-stipatus. Cal. subhemisphericus segmentis 5 subequalibus, semi- 
teretibus, subuncialibus, deorsüm latescentibus, 2 simplicibus, 2 basi mem- 
brand diaphaná wtrinque auctis, quinto altero tantúm latere membra- 
noso, Pet. lutea, nitidissima, numerosissima, multiserialia, calycem 
longè superantia, sudo celo post meridiem expandentia, lineari-acumi- 
nata, interiora gradatim decrescentia subconniventia, intima formá fere 
filamentorum è quibus pauca antherá incompletá terminata. Stamina vera 
humerosissima, incurvo-conniventia, filamentis tenuissimis, antheris erigwis, 
lline stramineo-pallido. Styli duodenis plures, saturate flavescentes tor- 
i» pa y lanum, pellucido-virescens, radiato-striatu- 
tuoso-congesti, Germen s 
lun (| radii loculos ca; s fature denotantes). Haworth MSS. (phraseologid 
“liquantulüm mutati). 
We have to thank Mr. Haworth for the above descrip- 
tion of this rare plant, which he considers a variety of 
elongatum, a species seldom known to blossom with us. 
The sample was communicated to him from Kew Gar- 
dens, where it had been raised in 1819, from seed from 
the Cape of Good Hope. It flowered this summer, and bids 
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