Tap. 6057. 
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM unrrorsvm. 
Native of South Africa: 
Nat. Ord. Ficommrm.—Tribe Mesempryee. 
Genus MesempryantHemum, Linn. s (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl., 
vol. i. p. 858). 
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM introrsum ; ramulis effusis erecto-decumbentibus, juni- 
oribus hispidulis foliisque minute celluloso-tessellatis, foliis remotis 
$-cylindraceis patenti-recurvis apice sepalisque penicillatim barbatulis, 
setis ad 10 badiis, floribus terminalibus solitariis gracile pedunculatis, 
calycis tubo turbinato, lobis subeylindraceis duobus majoribus, petalis 
sub-2-seriatis radiantibus anguste linearibus ochraceis vitellinis roseis v. 
rubris, filamentis albis externis anantheris, stigmatibus 5 minutis. 
conico-recurvis. 
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM introrsum, Haworth in Phil. Mag., 1824, p. 428. ex DC. 
Prod., vol. iii. p. 440. Salm Dyck, Monog. Mesemb., fasc. 52, f. 2. 
Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap., vol. iii. p- 446. 
There are many good reasons for encouraging the culti- 
vation of the once favourite genus Mesembryanthemum, amongst 
which not the least is their duration, for when once estab- 
lished they need never be lost; they are further evergreen, 
cost little in soil and cleaning, and many of them are 
amongst the most brilliantly coloured greenhouse plants. 
The subject of the present plate has been established at Kew 
for at least half a century. The first notice I find of it is in the 
work of Haworth, quoted above, who states that it was culti- 
vated in Kew in 1824. I do not, however, find it described 
in the second edition of “Hortus Kewensis,” published in 1811, 
Where 175 species are enumerated as then in cultivation in 
the Royal Gardens; a number reduced in 1855 to 157 , and 
now increased to 225, including some varieties and species 
that have not yet flowered. Upwards of 300 species are 
orale from the Cape alone, in Harvey and Sonders’ 
lora, 
Dusor. Stem branched from the base; branches a foot 
and more long, at first erect, then prostrate or pendulous, as 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1873. 
