flowers, and, which affords a good fpecific difference, has the 

 leaflets of the calyx of unequal length, and much longer in 

 proportion to the corolla than in M. denfum. 



This plant, though not of difficult cultivation, is extremely 

 fhy of flowering; fo much fo, that Mr. Haworth, to whom 

 we are indebted for the living fpecimen here figured, informs 

 us that it is one and twenty years fince he has feen it in blof- 

 fom. 



Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Requires the fame 

 treatment as other fucculent plants from that country ; which 

 confifts chiefly in taking care that they are not injured by 

 damp in the winter, and in protecting them from froft. 



