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Cab. t. 5D0 : LinJl Bot. "Reg. t. 582 : Sulm-Dyck, Mosenib. § 



Soiider in Fl. Cap, vo]» ii. p. 418 : Bergei% Mesenib, p. 1G2. 



Bathuhst Div. Ncur Barville Park, Oct. 14, 1813^ BurchelU specimens 

 raided h\n\\ sect,! of no. 4125 ! 



Salin-Dyck aiul otliors followino- him, without inycstigution, have "wrongly 

 placed il/. niidtifadiaUim^ Jacq. as a synonym of M. rosenm^ AVillck 



A drawing of the typical phinl" of jlA hlandum is preserved at Tvew. The 

 figures iu the ^ Botanical Cabinet ^ and ' Botanical Jtcgistor' are excellentj 

 that of K>ahn-Dyck rather poor^ r('preSenting a " drawn up '^ plant. 



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in South Africa, from which living plants were raised la England, but no 

 specimen of tlicm was preserved by Burchell. A coloured drawing of the 

 type phnit is pi'eservcd at Kew^ which i?eems to be the same as that figured 

 Salm-Dyck, so tliat it is correctly understood in modern works. — 



.lA breviciude, Haw, Su|)pl.p. 91 (J819) : & R 

 p. 42G : Salm-])yck, Mesemb. §1G, fig. 2: 

 p. 401) : Berger, Mesemb. p. 210. 



Sonder in Fh Cap, vol. ii* 



South Afkica. Collected during a journey made between the Vaal River 

 d Graati^ lieinet, March to May 1812, Burchell, 2128-2 ! (Seed 111). 



M, CAMPESTKE, Bvrch. (§ Vaginata), An erect shrub about 1^ ft. bigli. 

 Brandies (dried) 2-3 mm. thick, bearing bhort branchiets 8-28 mm. long, from 

 one axil only of the leaf-pairs and directed to one side of the branch; inter- 

 nodes 5-10 mm. long ; bark grey. Leaves ascending or ascending-sjuTading^ 



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thick at the base, thence 



tapering in a nearly straight line to an acute apex, whicli bears a small 

 recurved-hooked point, slightly concave (or when alive perlmps flat) on the 

 upper side, obtusely keeled on the rounded back, united at the base into a 

 sheath 3-(i mm. long^ glabrous, apparently not serrulate on the keel. Flowers 

 solitary, terminating the short lateral branchiets. Pedicels shorter than the 

 leaveSj 3-5 mm. long. ( alyx 5-lobed; tube or ovary very shortlvand broadly 



obconic ; lobes 4-5 mm. long and 2-3 mm. broad, deltoid-ovato, acute. 

 Petals rosy, according to Burchell, but these and the other parts of the 

 flower are not [jresent on the specimens, tliere being only one imperfect 

 flower and two innnature capsules on the Kew specimens. — M. cauipedre^ 

 Burch. Trav. vol i. pp. 259-200 (1822): DC. Frodr. vol. iii. p. 451 : Sonder 

 in Fl. Cap. vol. ii". p. 459: Berger, Mesefnb. p. 292. 



SnTjiKiiLANi) Div, Near Sutherland, Aug, 8, 1811, Burchell^ 1340! 



Burchell "states that *' J/, campcstre, now in blooin, everywhere decorates 



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So that it must be plentiful in the locality wltere he found it. 

 He only collected three specimens of this species^ two of Avhich are at Kew 



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