402 MESEMBRYACEH (Sond.) [JMéesembryanthemum. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Stem short, somewhat branched. Leaves very thick, curved upwards, og 
ctate, green, 3-4 inches long, 8-9 lines wide. Peduncle thickened upwards 
Gini Was Walyx turbinates,” Petals biserinto, bluntioh. Tt differs fiona all the 
preceding by more semi-cylindrical, attenuated leaves, less difformed at the apex. 
50. M. Salmii (Haw. Suppl. 89. Rev, 100) ; nearly stemless ; leaves 
decussate, obliquely semi-cylindrical, attenuate, one acute, the other 
oblique and blunt ; flowers sessile. Link. and Otto. Abbild. Gen. fase. 8. 
9.95. t. 44. Salm Dyck, l. c. fase. 4. t. 2. 
Var. £. elongatum (Salm Dyck) ; leaves somewhat smaller and longer. 
Var. y. semicruciatum (Salm Dyck) ; leaves flattish, rigid and shorter, obliquely 
cuneate. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope (v. v.) 
Leaves 6-8, patent, 3-4 inches long, 8-9 lines wide, flattish above, with a white 
spot at the inside of the base. Calyx compressed, obconical. Petals uniseriate, 
obtuse, denticulate. 
51. M. taurinum (Haw. Syn. 224. Rev. 100) ; planta lmost stemless ; 
leaves disposed in two rows, obliquely cruciate, semiterete, obtuse, very 
thick, of a yellowish green colour, incwrved ; flowers sessile. DCL. c. 422. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope (v. v.) : 
Habit of M. cruciatum, but much larger. Old stem branched at the base, half a 
foot high. Leaves about one finger long, flattish above, often oblique at the apex ; 
young ones always incurved. Calyx bifid (Haw.), segments unequal. Styles 8, 
ramentaceous, 
52. M. surrectum (Haw. Rev. 101) ; leaves decussate, erectish or 
spreading, more or less semiterete, subulate, acute, soft, usually pustu- 
late at the base ; ovarium exserted, somewhat pedunculate. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
§. 8. LINGUAEFORMLIA, Haw. (Linguaef. a. disticha. DC.) Stem- 
less or nearly so. Leaves difformed, distichous, tongue-shaped, one of 
the margins thicker than the other, obliquely carinulate, often uncinate- 
ineurved at the apex ; flowers solitary, large, sessile or pedunculate, 
Calya 3~5-fid. Stigmas 8-10. (Sp. 5 3-62.) 
(Perhaps all the species of this section are varieties of one plant.) 
53. M. scalpratum (Haw. Obs. 187. Syn. 220); nearly stemless ; leaves 
sloped down much, scalprate, very broad, one of the margins thicker, 
pustulate inside at the base; flowers sessile ; calyx 4-fid ; petals emar- 
ginate. Salm Dyck. 1. ¢. fase. 4. t. 3. M. linguiforme, Linn. Dill. Elth. 
t. 183. fig. 224. 
Var. 8. angustius (Salm.-Dyck. 1. ¢.) ; leaves smaller, more attenuated at the apex, 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Leaves 3-4 inches long, 14-2 inches wide, subequal in length, obtuse, patent, 
green, not punctate. Calyx obconical, com: d 7 
linear. Styles 1047. coc” pressed. Petals uniseriate, broadly 
54, M. fragrans (Salm Dyck, 1. c. fase. 4. t. 4); nearly stemless ; leaves 
sloped down, obliquely tongue-shaped, thick, one side rather convex and 
obtuse at the apex, the other side thrown out into a keel ; flowers sessile ; 
