400 MESEMBRYACE (Sond.) [AMesembryanthemum. 
Bracts foliaceous, pedicels 4-1 inch long, thickened upwards. Calyx-lobes 5, very 
acuminate, 4 lines long. Petals 4 inch long. Much smaller than the preceding, 
and with smaller flowers, but perhaps only a variety. 
40. M. rhomboideum (Salm. Dyck. 1. c. fasc. 5, t. 4) ; stemless ; 
leaves smooth, rhomboid-dilated, green, white-dotted, flat-concave above, 
convex and carinate-keeled beneath, rotunded-obtuse at the apex, angles 
white-margined ; scape terete. MU. scapiger, E. & Z.! 1984. 
Has. On the fields by the Zwartkopsriver, Coega and Zondagsriver, Zey. / 2579. 
Janr. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
8-10 radical leaves, 1-2 inches long, about 6-8 lines wide, subglaucous-green, half 
cylindrical from the base to the middle, slightly concave above, compressed-keeled 
beneath from the middle to the apex. Scape 1-2 inches long. Flowers biternate. 
bracts 1-2 lines long. Pedicels 4-1 inch, with or without bracts. Calyx §-cleft, 
lobes ovate acute. Petals not much longer than the calyx. Styles 5. 
41. M. dolabriforme (Linn, Spec. 699) ; caulescent ; leaves glaucous, 
dotted, exactly dolabriform, i. e. depressed at the base and compressed 
at the apex, obtuse and somewhat emarginate; scape abbreviate, com- 
pressed ; pedicels short. Dill. Hlth. t. 191. f. 237. DC. Pl. Grass. t. 6. 
Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 32. Salm. Dyck. l. c. fase. 3.t. 4. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope (v.v.) 
Stem in the young plant very short, but when old 4-1 foot. Leaves connate, 
1-1} inches long, at the base 2 lines, at the top 6-7 lines wide. Flowers ternate or 
quinate. Bracts subleafy. Calyx 5-cleft. Petals lanceolate, 4 inch long. Styles 5. 
42. M. carinans (Haw. Rev. 90) ; nearly stemless ; leaves elongated, 
subincurved and spreading, semiterete at the base, compressed at the apex, 
and dilated into a keel, whitish and dotted. DOC. l.c. 423. EB. & Z.! 
1983 ? M. canum, Salm. Dyck. obs. bot. 20. non Haw. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers ternate, exactly as in M. dolabriforme, and expanding in the evening. 
The specimen of £. § Z. / collected between Beaufort and Graafreynet is incomplete, 
and seems not to be different from M. dolabriforme. 
§. 7. DIFFORMTA, Salm. Dyck. (Cruciata and Difformia, Haw. Lin- 
guef. 8. DC.) Stem very short or erect, branched. Leaves unequal, 
obliquely decussate, half-cylindrical, dilated or attenuate at the apex, 
variously difformed and often furnished with 1-2 fleshy teeth. Flowers 
Seay eo yellow, pedunculate or sessile. Calya 4-cleft. Stigmas 8. 
P- 43-52: 
43. M. bidentatum (Haw. Suppl. 89. Rev. 103); nearly stemless ; 
leaves semi-cylindrical, thick, soft, oblique, and compressed at the apex, 
and difformed, bearing 2 large, almost opposite, fleshy teeth in the middle. 
Salm. Dyck. 1. c. fase. 2. f. 1. Dill. Elth. p. 252. f. 241. (excl. f. 242.) 
Has. Cape of Good Hope (v.v.) 
Branches prostrate, Leaves unequal, about 3-4 lines wide, one 2 inches long, 
the opposite 1-14 inches long, very smooth, green, punctate. Peduncle 14 inches 
long, thickened upwards, Calyx turbinate. Petals uniseriate, obtuse, denticulate. 
Styles short, ramentaceous. 
44. M. semicylindricum (Haw. Obs. 238. Syn.228.); caulescent ; 
leaves semi-cylindrical, narrow-tongue-shaped, bullate-punctate, oblique 
