* MESEMBRYANTHEMUM rubrocínctum. 
Red-edged Fig Marigold. 
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. FicorpEz. (Introduction to the Natural System of Botany, 
p- 160.) | 
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM. Supra, vol. 3, fol. 260. 
§ 30. CONFERTA. 
Caules fruticosi, ramis confertis ascendentibus. Folia opposita, subconnata 
conferta triquetra acuta, angulis levibus. Flores pedunculati solitarii aut ternatı 
speciosi sole expansi rubicundi aut pallidé rosei. De C. prodr. v. 3. 436. 
M. rubrocinctum ; caulibus humilibus ascendentibus ramosissimis, floriferis 
unifloris, foliis leete viridibus rubrocinctis acinaciformibus levibus, bracteis 
connatis, floribus maximis. 
M. rubrocinctum. Haworth. 
A species which may perhaps be considered the finest of 
this very extensive genus. It is nearly related to M. spec- 
tabile, from which it differs in its larger flowers and leaves, 
and in its connate bracts. 
' It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and is said to 
have been described by the late Mr. Haworth in some of his 
papers, but we have not been so fortímate as to light upon 
the place. f 
For our specimen we are indebted to the Hon. W. F. 
Strangways, in whose garden in Dorsetshire it blows in the 
greatest profusion upon an old wall. Je 
Independently of its extraordinary beauty, this has the 
great merit of being able to resist as much cold as a Pelar- 
* From uernußpra noontide, and av$ee to flower ; in allusion to the time of 
the day at which its blossoms usually expand. 
