may eventually be found to be necessary. M. dichroum 
is a pleasing addition to the succulents in cultivation 
owing to the colouring of the petals. It is a dwarf plant 
with very glaucous linear-oblong leaves and with shortly 
pedicelled flowers; the petals, otherwise white, are 
strongly suffused with pink towards their tips. 
Description.—Herb, with short simple or sparingly branched suberect stems, 
3-33 in. high. Leaves 4-5, spreading, linear-oblong, acute, 3-quetrous, thick, 
concave above, bluntly keeled beneath, glaucous, closely and finely toothed. 
Flowers nearly sessile, 3-1} in. across, white flushed with rose-pink. Calyx 
wide campanulate ; lobes deltoid ovate, acute. Petals very many, spreading, 
about ? in. long, white below, rose-pink at the tips. Stamens many, erect, 
about 2 in, long; filaments whitish, villous below the middle; anthers ovate- 
oblong, obtuse, yellow. Stigmas 6, subclavate, short. 
Tas. 8872.—Fig. 1, portion of a leaf, showing the apex; 2 and 3, stamens; — 
4, apex of ovary, with stigmas :—all enlarged, 
