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fig. 45. The whole ilniwing is evidenlly only a ])ortIon of a large plant. 

 Huwortb compares it with M* fostlgiatnm and states tliat it is perhaps a 

 Yarioty of M. splendens, but at the same time mentions several cluiraeK'rs 

 wherel^y it differs from that plant. Altliongh tliis statement has Leon 

 repeated by subsequent auUiors^ a olanco at tlic figures of tlie two species is 

 sufficient to sliow that tlu^v are tofally distinct. Hawortli describes the 

 leaves as crowded^ but the drawing does not represent them to be so^ 

 althougli it is evidently a rather leafy species. According to Haworth it 

 flowers in September. 



I liave failed to obtain from BurchelFs MSS. any clue to the locality where 

 ho collected the seeds of this species from wliioli the living plants that 

 Haworth described were raised, for there is no dried specimen ot" it among 

 those that he collected, and I do not find the name entered in either his 

 eatalogiu^ or seed-list (Jlorlus FulhamensU) at Kew. 



M. TESTACKUM, llaii\ (§ Tricliotoma). Old stems shrubby, erectj 2-o ft. 

 (G()-90 cm.) higiij branched. Leaves seniiterete, subtriquetrons, glaucescent, 

 somewhat papulose-shining. Flowers terjninal, nmbcllate-trichotomouSj 

 small, pedunculate. C'alyx short, with subeqiial lobes. Petals in one serieSj 

 testaceous-saffron-coJoured. Stamens and imperfect filantents collected into 



a cone, white^ shining. 



The above is a combined translation of Ilawortirs two descriptions of this 



plant. Tlie f olio win iz' are m 



,..ade from two coloured drawinii's of it at Ke^v, 



One drawino;. labelled '* Mesemhr, tedaccinn, Haw. Ileceived from Mr. 



llaworth in 1823, who obtained it from Mr. Bnrchell/' represents an erect 

 straight flowerless branch 2 mm. thick, with internodes 8-13 mm. long, 

 whose leaves spread horizontally or ai^e I'ecuived or reflexed from their base, 

 2-4 cm. loiiir and 2 mm. thiclv, trigonous, acute, with tufts of smaller leaves 

 in their axils, giving it a v(M'y leafy ap})earance. Tliis drawing was probably 

 nuule from a plant grow^n nndei' glass. The other is labelled *' AJesm. 

 IcdaceaiUj Aug. 4th, 1826/' and wa^^ ])robably made from the same plant at a 

 later date grown in the open air. It represents a short branch 1;^ mm. thick, 

 with 2 branchlets 1 mm* tliick having internodes 5*^10 mm. long, bearing 

 one ternnnal fiowor* The leaves^ are 10-18 mm. long, l;^-2^ mm. thick, 

 horizontally s})readino^ slightly curved, trigonous, acute, wdth tuflrf of 



smaller leaves in 

 1 • 



their axils. Pedicel apparently about 5 mm. long, but 

 hidden. Calyx not shown. (!!orol!a 10 mm. in diameter ; petals apparently 

 about 50 in about 2 series, 6 mm. long, 1 nnn. broad, linear, obtuse, of a 

 peculiar red colour. Stamens collected into a cone li mm. long, 3 mm, in 

 diameter at the base, and 1^ mm. in diameter at the to]) ; filaments white ; 

 anthers yellow, — il/. testaceinn^ Haw, Snppl. p. 97 ; & Rev. p. 178 : DC. 

 Prodr. vol. iii. p. 443. 



