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considered it to be. 1 have not seen it, but the true M. longum existed 

 formerly in the collection of Mr. Wilson Saunders of Reigate ; all tbe other 

 specimens cultivated under tliis name that I have seen are not tliut species 

 at all, having long widely spreading (instead of ascending) leaves^ and are 

 possibly only garden hybrids. 



Berger, Mesemb. p. 240, quotes Salni-Dyck, Mesemb. ^ 8, fig. 9, as repre- 

 senting this species, but so far a? I have been able to discover, Salm-Ovch 

 never published such a figure. He di<l, however, publish a plate numbered 



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which is quite different from M. longum. So if Berger intends this plate and 

 this plant by his quotfition, the reference to Salin-Dyck's work above quoted 

 must be erased, for Salm-Dyck's plant is certainly not M. longum, Haw. 



M. or.LigruM, Willd. Sp. Tl. vol. ii. p. 1027 (1799) : Spreng. Syst. Yeg. 

 vol. ii. p. 514. M. linguefonne. Haw. Obs. p. 182. M. lingvaforme, Haw. 

 Misc. p. 33 ; Synop. p. 221 ; & lie v. p. 97, excluding varieties : DC. 

 Prodr. vol. iii. p. 422, not of Linnaus. M. linguiforme var. 7, Linn. Sp. PI. 

 ed. 1, p. 488. M. linguiforme var. angusta^ Weston, Univ. Bot. vol, i. 



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p. 172 (1770)- AL luujmforme var. angusfum, Weston, Enolisb Fl. p. 1C2 

 • (1770). AL folio li7ir/u<efornil an<judiore. Dill. Hort. Eltlu p. 237, t. 18-1. 

 fij;'. 22()j not p. 238; t. 185 ns quoted bj Liniuous. 



South AiiRica, Locality and colluctor unknown. Introduced into culti- 

 vation before 1732. 



The plant figured and described by Salm-Dyck, Mesemb. §8, fig. 8, by 

 Mordant de Launy and Loiseleur Deslongcbamps, Herb, Gen. de TAinatenr, 

 vol. i. t. G&, and by Drapiez, Herb, de TAmateur, vol. iv. t, 229^ under tbe 

 name of AI. Uy^fjiicvforme, Haw., seonis to be tbe plant tbat Sonder in Fl. Cap, 

 vol. 11. p. 404 bas described under tliat name, and Boxger, Mesemb. p. 241, 

 under tbe name of i/, Unguiforme var. obUqunm, But it is certainly not tb(^ 

 true J/, oUiquum^ WiUd. (J/. Ungucuforme ^ Haw.), which names were both 

 founded upon the plant figured by Dillenius above quoted. That firrnre is a 

 very fair representation of the plant, which is not at all like the plant of 

 Salm-Dyck and Berger, being smaller and quite different ia its appearance. 

 Ha worth (Obs, p, 185) mentions as a proof of its distinctness from the other 

 species be had of tliis group, that the numerous seedlings he raised from it 

 were always " exa<itly like their 2)arents in every particular. 



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For AI. oldiquiun^ Haw, and other authors, see Al\ lique^ N. E. Br,, t). 103. 



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§ MAGNIPUNCTA. 



.,.. ^. ....^.., ^.. ... ,^.. Planta acaulis, 5-6 cm. alta, basi ramosa. Folia 

 socpe 4, a^qualia, patula, 2|-5 cm. longa, 7-11 mm. lata et 7-10 mm. crassa 

 inferne semicylindricaj superne obtuse trigonaj supra plan; 



a ve convexa 



subtus leviter et obtuse carinata, glabra, viridia, punctis atroviridibus dense 



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