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MESEMBRYANTHEMUM OBCORDELLUM. HEART- 
SHAPED FicG-MARIGOLD; or GLAUCGOUS 
CHECQUERED DuUMPLIN. 
HARM ETE REE IE ae aE I ae Ie ae 
Clafs and Order. 
IcosANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Generic Charager. 
Cal. 5-fidus. Petala numerofa, linearia, bafi cohzrentia. 
Cap/. carnofa, infera, poly{perma. 
Specific CharaGer and Synonyms. 
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM odécordellum ; (acaulis) glaucefcens, 
corolla albicante maculis confluentibus ramofis germine in- 
clufo. Haworth Mifc. Nat. 21. Ejufdem Syn. Pl. Succulent. 
p. 203. Hort. Kew. ed, alt. 3. p. 213. 
This curious lithe MesemaryYANTHEMUM was communi- 
cated by the Comteffe Dz Vanoves, from her colleéion at 
Bayes-Water, in 1811. : 
We believe it has never been before figured, nor was it 
noticed by any botanical author, till Mr. Haworrn defcribed 
it in his Mifcellanea Naturalia. 
_ Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Introduced about the 
year 1794, by Mr. Francis Masson. Should be kept near 
the floping lights of a good greenhoufe, and watered ie 
fparingly, and in the winter very feldom, Propagated by off. 
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