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appears to me no doubt whatever that it should be referred to ili. latum ; 

 for this drawing:; seems to me to represent exactly the same species as that 

 figured by Dillenius above quoted, but I have not seen it. The locuUty 

 where M. medium grows (sec p. 133) is one from which the Dillenian phmt 



juite accessible to the older 



mio-ht also have been obtained, as it was 

 collectors. 



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M. LIXGUIFORME, Limi. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 488 (1753) : Weston, Univ. 

 Bot. vol. i. p. 172 : & Willd. Sp. D. vol. ii. p. 1026, not of other authors. 

 M. llngiKvforme, Sprong. Syst. Veg. vol. ii. p. 514. M. scalpratum, ILiw. 

 Obs. p. 187 (1794); Misc. p. 32 ; Synop. p. 220 ; k T^ev. p. 94 : Sahn- 



Mesemb. § 



DC. Prodr. vol. iii. p. 421, excluding syn. 



M, obllqmim, WiUd. : Sonder in Fl. Cap, vol. ii. p. 402. 



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scalpratum, Berger, Mesemb. p. 242, fig. 51, copied from Salm-Dyck's 

 figure. M. folio scalprato, Dillen. Hort. Elth. p. 235, t. 183. fig. 224. 



South Affiica. Locality and collector unknown. Introduced into culti- 

 vation before 1732. 



I think it vcrv probable that Al. luridum, Mill. Diet. ed. 8^ no. 43 (1768), 



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without a stalk, and tongue-shaped lucid "leaves, indented at the top. 

 as M. linffuiforine, Linn, was in cultivation at tliat time, and is well marked 

 by having u sort of notch near the top of the upper margin of many of its 

 very broad and particularly tongue-shaped leaves, I think it most probable 

 that Af. hicldum, Mill, is the same plant, in spite of the fact tliat Miller also 

 enumerates M. linguiforme, Linn. But it is certain that Miller did not possess 

 all the species he enumerates, but included in his Dictionary plants that were 

 in cultivation that had been described by other authors, and he did not 

 always recognise the plant he had as being the same as one described by 

 another author, and I think his M. lucUluni is a case in point. The 

 AI. lacidum o£ Huworth is certainly a different plant, and, I believe, is only a 

 variety of Al. longuni. 



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Obs. p. 177 (1794) ; M 



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Rev. p. 96, excluding varieties : AVilld. Sp. 1*1. vol. ii. p. 1027 : DC. Prodr. 

 vol. iii. p. 421 : Sondor in PI. Cap. vol. ii. p. 404. Al. lingi 



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AI. lingidforme var. longum, Weston, English Fl. p. 162 (1775) : Berger, 

 Mesemb. p. 240, excluding all varieties. Al. Julio ling u w form'i lovgiore, Dill. 



Hort. Elth. p. 238, t. 185. fig. 227. 



South Africa. Locality and collector unknown. Introduced before 1732. 



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