406 MESEMBRYACEH (Sond.) [JJesembryanthemum. 
leaves bluntly triquetrous, rather glaucous, dotted, when young more 
glaucous and more triquetrous; peduncles compressed at the base, bi- 
bracteate. DC. Ll. c. 424. ) 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Old stems 2 inches long, crowdedly branched. Leaves 3 inches long. Peduncles 
1-2 inches long. Bracteas large, leafy. Calyx lobes unequal, very blunt. Petals 
saturate-reddish. 
71, M. teretifolium (Haw. Syn. 210); subcaulescent ; leaves nearly 
terete or cylindrical, greenish, rather dotted, but when young polished, 
very green and semiterete; peduncle nearly terete, bibracteate. DC. l. c. 
M. cylindricum, 8. Haw. Mise. 27. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope (v. v.) 
Branches procumbent. Leaves 4 inches long. Peduncle 2 inches long. Bracts 
leafy. Petals often emarginate, reddish, white at the base. Styles about 10, Per- 
haps a variety of the p: ing. 
72. M. teretiusculum (Haw. Obs. 410. Misc. 27. excl. Syn.); stemless ; 
leaves bluntly triquetrous, firm, thick, green, dotted. DC. Ll. c. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Leaves 2 inches long. Flowers unknown. 
§. 12. BELLIDIFLORA, Haw. DC. Subcaulescent. Leaves trique- 
trous, compressed, spreading-incurvate, acute at the angles, toothed at 
the apex. lowers solitary, pedunculate, Petals white, with a purple 
middle-rib. Calya 5-cleft. Stigmas numerous, hair-formed. (Sp. 73-) 
78, M. bellidiflorum (Linn. Spec. 59c) ; caudex short, suffruticose ; 
leaves triquetrous, compressed, denticulate at the apex; pedunele bi- 
bracteate at the base. 
Var. a. glaucum (Salm Dyck, 1. c. fase. 3. t. §); leaves spreading, glaucous, 
compressed-triquetrous, 3-fariously denticulate at the apex. M. bellidiflorum, Linn. 
Lam. Haw. Dill. Elth. 244. f. 233. 
Van. 8. viride (Haw. Salm Dyck, lL. c. t.6) ; leaves suberect, pale green, toothed 
beneath on the keel, lateral angles entire. M, bellidiflorum, Spreng. Thunb, fl. cap. 
418. et herbar. ! 
Var. y. subulatum (Haw. Salm Dyck, |. c. t. 7) ; leaves spreading, glaucesent, 
attenuate-triquetrous, the carinal angle dentate at the apex. JM. subulatum, Haw. 
Syn. 208. M. bellid. B. simplex. DC. pl. grass. t. 41. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
: Leaves decussate, connate, 2 inches, in var y 1 inch long. Flowers in var. a 14 
inch, im var. 8 et y1 inch in diameter. Peduncle in var. a 2 inches, in var. B 1 
inch, in var. y 4 inch long. Calyx lobes broad, subequal. Petals biseriate, narrow 
lanceolate, bifid or acute. Styles 5, ramentaceous, 
M. Burmanni, Haw. et DC. founded on Burmann’s t. 2 5, is not different from 
M. serrulatum, Haw, 
§. 13. ACUT'A, Haw. DC. Stemless or nearly so. Leaves semiterete, 
subulate-acute, subtriquetrous at the apex, full of pellucid dots. Flowers 
pedunculate, purple. Calyx 5-cleft. Stigmas 8-10. (Sp. 74-76.) 
74, M. acutum (Haw. Misc. 26. Syn. 207) ; stemless; leaves semi- 
cylindrical, triquetrous, acute at the apex, glaucous-green, full of pellucid 
dots, finely wrinkled; flowers long-pedunculate, peduncles bibracteate at 
