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SPECIE:^ OF MESEMBRYANTHEMUM. 



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"Herger, Meseml), p. 258- M. multipunctatvm^ Salm-Dyck, Hort. Dyck. 

 p. ;i57 (ItiiU) ; & Mesemb, § 3j tig. 6: Sender in FL Cap. vol. ii. p. 395: 

 Berger, Mescmb. [i. 257. 



South Africa. Locality and collector unknown. In cultivation in 

 1795 accordino- to Haworth. 



Tlu! drawing of tliis species at Kcw (partly copied on IM. 9) was made on 

 "March 25, 1825/' and is not very characteristic of the plant, being made 

 at tile end of the winter season before it had attained its proper growth. 

 At the same period oE the year I liave seen the plant with exactly the 

 a})p'..^aj-ance I'epre^ented by the drawing, although later in the season it 

 resumed the aj^pearance so well shown in Salm-Dyck's figure oE M. vadtl- 

 [nou'tcatun^ which is certainly the same specit^s as Af, hifnhnu, Salm-Dyck 

 states that A/, midfjpiinctatiun is near J/, dentlculatum^ but it bears no 

 resemblance wdiatever to that species either in sliuj»c or colour, so that the 

 AL dentindalum of Salm-Dyck is probably totally different from the plant 

 Ilaworrh described under that name. 



The Jiame l>ijulum was given to this plant because the first flower that 

 liawortli saw had an abnormal 2-lobed calyx, lie subsequently found that 

 the calyx was -l-lobeil, which is its normal condition. 



M. CANDiuissmiM, iV. E. Br. (PL 1, tigs. 25-211). Planta acaulis 

 (j-13 em. alta^ basi ramosa^ Candida, liand 2-4-foliati. Folia 2-9^ cm, 

 longa, basi 8-14 mm. lata et 6-14 nun. crassa, deinde atl apicem acutuni 

 attenuahi, supra plana, dorso basi rotundala, superne obtuse carinata, carina 

 apico di la lata, alia Integra, alia a pice dorso dental a, ojnnino Candida. 

 Fedunculus 4-7 cm. longus, 3-4 mm. crassus, basi bibracteatus. Bractciae 



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foliiformes, integrre, 1-4 cm. longa?. Calyx 5-G-Iobus ; lobi 10-15 mm. 



tres mem- 



longi^ 8-10 nun. lati^ elli2)tico-ovati, acuti vel obtusi 



1, quorum 



i)ranceo-margInati. Corolla 5-6 cm, diamelro ; petala numerosa, 3-4 

 seriatUj 10-25 mm. longa, linearia, apice acuta vel bidentata. Stamina 

 numerusa, erecta, 4 nun. longa. Stigmata circa 17-19, erecta, circa 2 nnn. 

 longa, acuta. 



Plant G-13 cm. high, stemless, branching at the base* Leaves 2-4 to 

 each growth, with the alternating pairs dissimilar ; one pair entire at the 

 apex and one of tliem more pointed than the other, the other pair with 

 1-5 teeth on the dilated keel at the apex; in the living plant seen and 

 figured the toothed leaves are 2-3 cm. long, 8-10 nnn, broad and 8 nnn. 

 thick at the base, and 10-12 mm. thick where the keel is dilated at the 

 compressed apex, and the entire leaves are 3^-5 cm. long, 8-10 mm. broad 

 and ()-7 mm. thick at the baso^ but according to dried specimens and the 

 figure given by Mrs, Bolus, quoted below, on some plants they are 7-10 cm. 

 long, 10-14 mm. broad and as much in the thickness at the base^ the inner 

 loaves erect, the outer more or less spreading, flat on the upper side and 



