Mesembryanthemum.| MESEMBRYACEE (Sond.) 403 
petals obtuse, crenulate. Haw. Revis. 95. Link. et Otto. Abbild. Gen. 
fasc. 8. p. 93. t. 43. DC. 1. ¢. gat. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Nearly allied to M. sealpratum, but the leaves are shorter and thicker, and the 
flowers larger and fragrant. Leaves 2-3 inches long and 1 inch wide, patent. 
Flowers 3 inches in diameter. Calyx 4-fid, obconical, compressed. Petals uniseriate, 
broadly-linear. Styles re. 
55. M. grandiflorum (Haw. Phil. Mag. Nov. 1826. p. 328); nearly 
stemless ; leaves sloped down, broadly tongue-shaped, long, thick, with a 
large pustule on the inside of the base, one side oblique cultrate, the 
other subuncinate ; flowers sessile, very large ; petals obtuse, crenulate. 
Salm Dyck, 1. c. fase. 4. t. 5. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope (v. v.) : 
Leaves 4-6 inches long, 1-14 inch wide, a little attenuated at the apex, pale 
green. Flowers almost scentless. Calyx globose, subcompressed, 4-fid. Petals 2—3 
lines broad. It differs from the preceding by the larger, flatter, exactly linguae- 
formed, more soft leaves, and from the following by the robust habit and particularly 
by the very large flower. 
56. M. adscendens (Haw. Syn. 220. Rev. 96); stemless or nearly so, 
very proliferous ; leaves distichous, sloped down, adscendent, broadly- 
tongue-shaped, flattish on both sides, very blunt, green ; flowers pedun- 
culate ; peduncle and calyx pustulate. Salm Dyck, l. ¢. fase. 5, t. 8. 
Dill, Elth, p. 237. t. 226. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
About 8-10 leaves, a little fleshy, subequal, 24 inches long, 9-10 lines wide. 
Peduncle 1 inch long or longer, subtriquetrous at the apex. Petals subbiseriate, 
narrow, acute. Styles 10. It differs from the preceding by more flattish (not ex- 
cayate above) leaves, not thicker at one side and blunt, scarcely uncinate ; from the 
following by the proliferous stem. 
57. M. cultratum (Salm Dyck, Obs. 1820. p. 7); nearly stemless ; 
leaves distichous, sloped down, exactly tongue-shaped, thick, cultrate at 
the margin and blunt apex ; flowers pedunculate ; peduncle subtrique- 
trous. Monog. fase. 5.t.9. LH. § Z./ 1986. 
Var. 8. perviride (Salm Dyck, 1. c.) ; leaves saturate green. M. medium, Haw. 
Suppl. 88, 
Has. On the fields near the Zwartkopsriver. Oct. (Herb. D. Sd.) 
Leaves 3 inches long, 10-12 lines wide, subdeflexed, soft, two-edged at the 
margins, subequal. Peduncle 1 inch long or longer. Petals patent, subbiseriate, 
acute. Styles 11-13. : 
58. M. uncatum (Salm Dyck, 1. c. fase. 5. t. 10); nearly stemless ; 
leaves distichous, patent, subineurvate, narrow tongue-shaped, thick, 
flattish above, obliquely convex beneath, incurvate-uncinate at the apex; 
flowers short-pedunculate ; petals revolute. M. longum, ¢. uncatum. Haw. 
Rev. 97- | 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. . 
Leaves 2} inches long, 8 lines wide, incrassate at the apex. Peduncle } inch, 
Calyx compressed globose, Petals subbiseriate, acute. Style 10. 
59, M, depressum (Haw. Misc. p. 33. Syn. 221) ; nearly stemless, 
prostrate ; leaves narrow-tongue-shaped, recurved-depressed, obtuse or 
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