408 MESEMBRYACE (Sond.) |Alesembryanthemum. 
Var. f. congestum (Salm Dyck. |. c. t. 4) ; leaves very numerous, crowded, the 
lower ee often the AS a Elth. t. 198. f. 252. M. diversifolium, E. § Z.! 
1987. : 
Has. Sandy places near Greenpoint, Bethelsdorfe, and Cradockstadt. July 
(Herb. D. Sd.) 
Branches 3 foot or longer. Leaves capitate, flattish above, convex beneath, lower 
ones 2—3 inches, upper ones 1-4 inch long, at the base 3-4 lines wide, proliferous 
from the axils. Peduncle 2-3 inches long, with 2 foliaceous bracts. Calyx depressed- 
globose. Petals 4 inch long, in var. 8. purplish on the under side near the apex. 
Styles 14-17. 
79. M. purpureo-album (Haw. Phil. Mag. Nov. 1826. p. 329) ; stem 
elongate, branches short, prostrate, leafy; leaves vaginate, terete-semi- 
cylindrical, subtriquetrous at the apex, very green, full of little dots, 
upper ones crowded ; petals whitish, with purple lines. Salm Dyck, 1. ¢. 
fase. 2. t. 5. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Stem 1 foot, branches 2-4 inches long, yellowish. Leaves bluntish, purplish- 
mucronulate, 14 inches long, 2 lines wide. Peduncle 2 inches long. Calyx depressed- 
globose. Petals uniseriate, twice or thrice longer than the calyx. - Styles 16-18. 
80. M. laeve (Thunb. ! Nov. Oct. Nat. Cur. v. 8. p. 16. Ap.) ; stem 
prostrate ; branches short, erect, terete ; leaves connate, elongate, blunt- 
ish-triquetrous, subincurved, rather acute, punctate, green ; petals yellow, 
reddish-lineate on the outside ; styles 10-14. MM. dubiuwm, Haw. Syn. 
231. Salm Dyck, l. c. t. 6. M. decipiens, Haw. Rev. 110. M. Thunbergii, 
Haw. M. crassifolium, corniculatum et spectabile. E. & Z.! 1995. 1989. 
2017. 
Has. Sandy places near copperaeset Tigermountain, Sondagsriver, and in 
Swartland. July-Sept. (Herb. Thunb. I. Sd.) 
Stem 1 foot or more, subglaucous. Leaves 14-24 inches long, 3-4 lines broad at 
the base, flat above, green or subglaucous, purplish at the sheathing base. Peduncle 
1-1} inches long, with 2 short sheathing bracts. Calyx 5-cleft, depressed-globose. 
Petals twice longer than the calyx. Capsule subglobose, the size of a small hazle 
nut, dehiscing in 14 spreading valves. {[t comes very near M. veruculoides, Sond. 
(168), from which it differs by subtriquetrous leaves and solitary flowers. Zeyh. 
2586 seems to be the same, but the fruit-bearing specimens are too imperfect. 
81. M. corniculatum (Linn. Spec. 676) ; stems spreading, angular, 
with distant nodes; leaves rather crowded, triquetrously semi-cylindrical, 
very long, glaucous, incurved, blunt, mucronulate ; petals yellow, emar- 
ginate; stigmas purple. Dill. Eth. f. 253 e 254. DO. pl. grass. t. 108. 
Salm Dyck, l. c.t.7. M. loreum, Linn. Hort. Clif. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope (v. v.) 
Stem 1-13 foot, with decumbent, flexuous branches. Leaves 3-4 inches long, 
3-4 lines wide, minutely punctate, sheathing at the base. Peduncle 2-4 inches long ; 
bracts elongate, foliaceous. Calyx 5-6-cleft. Petals pluriseriate, about twice longer 
than the calyx. Styles 13-14. x : 
82. M. procumbens (Haw. Rev. 111); stems flexuous, procwmbent ; 
leaves by pairs, recurved, corniculate, semi-cylindrically-triquetrous, glau- 
cescent. DC. l. c. 426. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Allied to the following, but the leaves are shorter and more expanded. 
