SPECIES OF MESEMBRYANTHEMUM* 



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the inner pair erect and connivent, I should conjecture tlnit its affinity is 

 with the section Bostrata, Thunberg probahly never saw the figures in 

 Dillenius, 'Hortiis Eltharnensis/ p. 252, t, 194. figs. 241-242, upon which 

 M. difforme^ Linn, was founded, or he could ii 

 plant with that utterly different species. 



Sonder (who saw Thunherg's 



specimens), in the 'Flora Capensis/ vol. ii., actually refers this plant to two 

 very different species, for on p. 395 he places it as a synonym of il./. denticu" 

 latum^ Haw\, which Las leaves several times as long^ and^ as the figure on 

 PL 9. shows, is otherwise different ; whilst on p. 390 he places it as a 

 syuonymn of M. namaquense^ Sond., which has peduncles '' three or four 



times lonirer than the leaves'^ instead of shorter than the leaves as in 

 Thunberg^s plants which, according to description, differs from all three of 

 the above-mentioned species by having papillate leaves. M. vamaqnense 

 also comes fruui a different region, these plants mostly being very local in 

 their distribution. 



II. Stem evident, erect or prostrate, with distinct intervals (internodes) 



between some or all of the leaf-pairs. (To p.. 123.) 



§ ASPERICAULIA. 



Ih\ I propose the above name for the plant described as 

 M. ohliqunm by Haworth and published 22 years later than A/, ohliqmim 

 of Willdenow. The name llque has the same meaning. The synonymy of 



]VL LIQUE, N.E 



this species will therefore be : 



(1821) 



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fig. 5: Sonder in Fl. Cap. vol. ii. p. 443 : Berger, Mesemb* p. 96, not of 

 Willdenow. 



South Africa. Locality and collector not stated. Introduced into Kew 

 Gardens in 1819, probably by Borne. 



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The fio-ure in the 'Botanical Register ' w^as made from Haworth's type 

 lant^ and a good description of it is given there by Haworth himself. 



§ CORALLINA. 



M. L^vE, Ait. (PI. 10. fig. 44.) 



An erect shrub two or more feet high^ 



thickly covered with shoots and leaves, white-wooded. Leaves crowded, 

 cylindraceous, curved, obtuse, amplexicaulj smooth, very glaucous. Flowers 

 purple. Calyx 5-lobed ; lobes oblong, obtuse. — M. Icvve, Ait. Hort. Kew. 

 ed. 1, vol. ii. p. 187 (1789J : Haw. Obs. p. 254 ; Miscel- p. G4 ; Synop. p. 302 ; 

 & Rev. p. 154 : Willd. Sp. PI. vol. ii. p. 1044 : DC. Prodr. vol. iii. p. 440 : 

 Don, Gen. Syst. vol, iii. p. 143, 



South Africa. Locality unknown, Litroduc-ed by Masson in 1774, 



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