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anthers whitish. Styles 9^ greeiii?;lij spreiuling- — AL dwnnutuvi.liviW. Misc. 

 p. 26 J Synop. p. 230 ; and Kev. p. 107 : Ait, Hort. Kew, ed, 2, vol. 3, 

 p, 214. M. diminutum \ai\ palUdiun^ Haw. >SuppL p. 99. M. commdatum^ 



Haw. Obs. p. 22fi, not of Linnsous. 

 ' South Afkica. Locality and collector unknown. In cultivation before 



1789 according to Aiton. 



■ -The Y^xie^iy palluhnn was described by Haworth from a plant cultivated at 

 Kew, as having softer, paler, smoother, and shorter leaves than the type, but 

 in his ' Revisones/ j). 107 he states that it was merely an imperfect plant of 

 M. diminutum \ from which I should understand that when he described it 

 as var. pallidum it was a plant that had got out of condition, and that after- 

 wards it resumed its normal character. Possibly the original drawing at 

 Kew, winch I liave copied on PL 7, was made from that particular plant. 



Haworth (llev. p. 107) also places M. cauUculatiun^ Haw. SuppL p, 90, as a 

 varietv of M, diminutum^ from which he states that it differs in being about 

 twice as large. 



§ ALBINOTA. 



M. CIBDKLUM, N. E, Br. I [)ropose this name lor the plant figured by 

 Sahn-Dyck under the erroneous name of M. aloldes^ Haw, and accepted by 

 subsequent authors as being that species, from which it is totally different 

 and is, beyond doubt, the same as the plant described by Haworth a? M. alhi- 

 punctiim var, niajuSj of which (as A\ell as of typical M* alhipunctum^ Haw.) 

 there is an ori";Inal coloured drawing at Ivcw. But it is also certainlv 

 distinct from typical M, alhipunvtum ^ Haw., for its leaves are twice as long 

 and about twice as broad and somewhat different in shape, and the flowers 

 which Haworth apparently had not seen) have only about half as numy 

 petals/ which are also niucli broader and less acute than those of M. albi" 



punctuin, 



M, clhdidum differs from ^J. aloides besides in the very different form and 



pose of the leikvos, by the stamens being erect in a cylindric mass and not 

 forming a distinct cone. The following is its synonymy: — ]\L albipunctian[ 

 var. 7»a/u5, Haw, in Phil, Mag, (1826), p. 127, AL aloides^ Salm-Dyck/ 

 Meseml). §4, fig, 3: Sonder in Fl. Cap. vol. ii. p. 89H : Berger, Mesemb. 



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South Afkica. Locality unknown. It was raised at Kew in 1823 from 

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M.APIATUM, N: E. 



i?A ' Corpuscula 2^-5 cm. alta, compresso-oblonga, 

 apice biloba, microscopice subpuberula, subglauco-viridiaj conspicue punc- 

 tata, lobis rubro-marginatis. Calyx 5-lobus, glaber ; tubus in corpusculum 

 inclusus ; lobi srrpo exerti, 6 ram. longi, oblongi, obtusi, pallidc virides. 



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