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apparently about 20-25 but perhaps up to 30, in 1-2 series, about 



obtuse. Stamens numerous, 



but some appear as if they may have been obtusely keeled, obtuse, apparently 

 smooth. Primary cymes 3-G cjn,in diameterjmany-flo\vcrcd,3-G-times forked, 

 but by the development of fresh cymes from the lower part of an old one the 

 ultimate cyme formed of dead and living cyme^ becomes up to 8-timcs 

 forked, as Burchell states. By tlie branching from tlie lower part of each 

 old cyme and one of the l)i"anch(^s tliickening and becoming stem-like a thick 

 mass of branches and dead cymes is formed. Bracts like reduced leaves, 

 2-5 mm. long. Pedicels 1^-4 mm. long. Calyx 5-lobed ; lobes 1-2 mm. 

 long, unequal, 3 Avitli membranous margins. Corolla 7-10 mm. in diameter; 

 petals 



3-4^ mm. long and |-f mm. broad, linear^ 

 apparently not collected into a cohimn or cone, 1^-2 mm. long. Stigmas 

 apparently 4-5, partly destroyed in the flowers examined, nearly 1 nun. long, 

 subulule, \vith recurving tips.— J/, arhorijormr^ Burch. Trav. vol. i. p. 343 



(1822) : DC. Prodr. voh iii. p. 451 : Sender in Fl. Cup. vol. ii. p. 459: 

 Berger, Mesemb. p, 292. 



Gkiqualand West. Hay Div., betAveen AVittewater and Rictfonteinj 

 Feb. lo, 1812, Burchell, 2004 ! This is the type, but what appears to be the 

 same species was also collected in Philipstown Div., near Petrusville, on 

 March 2,1813, Burchell, 2681! Also collected near the Diamond Fields 

 by I)}\ Shaw, 14 ! 



Burchell collected only four small branches of no. 2004 and one larger 



branch of 2081^ from which the above description is made ; all are at Kew, 



Burchell places this species in the alliance of M, parcifloram^ Haw., but it is 



evi<lently nearly allied to M. spinosum, which, as understood by South African 



botanists, includes 3 or 4 distinct species, and, I believe, AL arhorlforme 

 anionrr others. 



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M. BIUENTATUM, llaw, (§ DifFomiia). This specimen was described from 

 plants raised from seeds collected by Burcbellj who preserved no specimen of 

 it, either of the South African plant or that grown in England, But it is 

 well known, and there is an original coloured drawing of the type at Kew. I 

 cannot find any clue as to the locality where J3urche]l collected it — M. hiden- 



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Mesemb. p. 231. 



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IS 



M, nLANDU3i, Ilaw. {= M. muUiradiaUtm, Jacq.). (§ Blanda.) This species 

 well known and commonly cultivated at the present time. The name, 



M 



dates it by more than ten years ; the correct synonymy being : 



M, 



ni 



alti- 



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Htnv. SuppL p. i)5 (1819J ; & Rev. p. 147: DC. Prodi-, vol. iii. p. 436: Locld. 



