SPECIES OF MESEMBRYANTIIEMU^r. 



131 



wliicli I believe to he correctly nnmecl, ami Bnrclieirs specimens accurately 



agree with that fiii'ure. 



M.foUosiim, Haw.^ which Sonder, and Berger following him, have placed 



as a synonym of M, tam'ululam, Haw., is quite a difFerent planf., with much 

 stouter leaves. 



M 



loubtful). A shrub half a foot (15 cm.) 



age decumbent. Loaves scarcely an inch 



or more liigh, bushily very much branched ; })ranches usually erect or with 



(2^ cm.) long, crowded, erectly 

 subimbricate, subulate, sausage-like pemitorete, minutely papillose or sub- 

 papillose, pale green. Flowers terminal, usually teniately or'biternately 

 cyniose or rarely solitar_v, at first neat, afterwards decaying, and at length 

 untidy from the persistent finally decaying large bracts, clavate peduncles, 

 and the swollen 



Peduncles terete, thickened above the ordinary leaf-like i)racts, and*^ the 

 upper part almost fig-like after flowering. Calyx 5-lobcd ; lobes unequal, 

 spreading, all at length more or less acutely finger-Uke, "pro? alios pcrsis- 

 tontia tumida" {tlie meaning of which is obscure). Corolla small, as Ion o- 

 as the calyx, expanding in the daytime ; petals subequal, subentire rather 



and as if finger-bearing calyces of the wliol 



e cy m e 



acute, white, shining. Stamens collected almost into a cone, tlje outer 

 erectly recurved, without anthers, and by degrees becoming ])etal-]ike- 



filaments white; anthers white, becoming yellow ; pollen yellow. Stigmas 5, 



stamensj ramentaceous (i.e., densely and 



nimu 



erect, as long as the 



pluniosely branched).—;!/, incomptum, Haw, Suppl. p. 90(1819) ; & Rev. 

 p. 171 : DC. Frodr. vol. iii. p. 415 : Lodd. Bot. Cal). t. l.'ill : Gr, Don, Gen. 

 Syst. vol. iii. p. 147, not of Salm-Dyck. Sonder, or Beroer. 



Prteska Div. Between Brak River and Vaal 

 BurcUll, 2128-13 (Seeds 131 & 17:)). 



Ttie above is a translation of the description 



May 19, 1812, 



given b 



, y Ilaworth iit his 



' Revisiones Plantarum Succulentarum,' and to it maybe added the followino- 



particulars I have obtaine.l from a drawing in the Kew Herbarium and the 

 excellent figure in 



either Sonder or Berber : 



Loddiges's ' Botanical Cabinet/ wliich is not quoted by 



("vvhich was probablj^ made 

 from a plant grown under glass) with internodes l(;-22mm. l.mg, and in the 



grown m rne open 



published figure (which was probaldy made from a plant 



air) with internodes 2-10 nun. long, l)earing axillary tufts of leaves at 'the 



nodes. Leaves more or less crowded, ascending, straiglit or slicditlv incurved 



10-20 



mm. long, 2 nnn. thick, 



acute. 



Cyme, in the drawing, about 



5-flowered, on a peduncle-Hke internode about ,5 cm. long and gradnally 

 developing one flower at a time in its forkiiigs, but in the published figure 

 the cymes are not clearly shown ; they arc evidently on very short ])eduncles 

 and 3-flouered. Bracts like the leaves but smaller. Pedicels 1-2 cm. lon^, 

 much thickened in a clavately obconical manner at the apical part. Calyx 



