410 MESEMBRYACE (Sond.) [Mesembryanthemum. 
purplish at the larger base. Calyx urceolate. Petals linear, attenuate. Perhaps a 
variety of the following. 
88. M. pugioniforme (Linn. Spec. 699) ; caudex suffruticose, simple 
or branched ; leaves crowded, very long, excavate-triquetrous, dilated 
near the middle, glaucous; calyx lobes twice longer than the petals ; styles 
13, erect-recurved. Dill. Hlth. t. 210. f. 269. Thunb. ! Jl. cap. 424. E, 
& Z.! 1990. Salm Dyck, 1. ¢. fase. 5. t. 15. 
Has. Sandy places in the Cape flats, in Verlooren Valley, etc. Oct.-Nov. (Herb. 
Thunb. Sd.) 
Caudex 4-1 foot. Leaves 7-8 inches long, in the middle 6 lines wide, trinerved, 
purplish at the base. Peduncle 4~s inches long. Calyx lobes elongate, subequal. 
Petals in many rows. 
98, M. corruscans (Haw. Suppl. go. Rev. 11 3); stem suffruticose ; 
leaves crowded at the top, alternate, dagger-shaped, long, glittering. 
DC. 1. ¢. 426. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers large, yellow. Seemingly a variety of M. pugioniforme. 
§. 17. SARMENTOSA, Salm Dyck, Haw. DC. Stem shrubby, angular, 
branches straight or sarmentaceous. Leaves opposite, connate, elongate, 
acute, triquetrous, with serrulated margins. Flowers usually ternate, 
small, pedunculate. Peduncles bracteate at the base and in the middle. 
Petals white or rose-coloured, with a red dorsal line. Calyx 5-cleft. 
Stigmas 5. (Sp. 90-94.) 
90. M. Schollii (Salm Dyck, Obs, 1820. p. 10) ; stem diffuse, with the 
branches sarmentaceous-decumbent ; leaves spreading-recurvate, dotted, 
elongate, attenuate-triquetrous, serrulated on the angles ; pedicels bi- 
geminate or ternate. Monog. fase. 3. t.9. M. recurvum, Haw. Suppl. 
go. M. aduncum, Jacq. Fragm. t. 51. f. 2. M. multiflorum, E. § Z. | 
1026. 
Has, On rocks in mountains. Table-mountain. Feb. (Herb. Sd.) 
Stem greyish, when young compressed. Leaves glaucous, rigid, 2~3 inches long, 
5-6 lines wide at the base, smaller in the branches, cartilagineous-serrulate, Ped}. 
cels $-1 inch long. Calyx lobes subequal. Petals about + inch, in the cultivated 
plant not or scarcely larger than in the wild specimen. 
91. M. rigidicaule (Haw. Rev. 116) ; stem and branches erect, flori- 
ferous, su ecumbent ; leaves erect-spreading, dotted, elongate, trique- 
trous, equal-sided, with roughish margins ; pedicels bigeminate or ter- 
nate. Salm Dyck, I. ¢. t. 10. 
Has. Langevalley, June. Zeyher (Herb. Sd. 
Near the preceding, but more erect, the ade n 
late, and the flowers a little smaller. Leaves 2~3 
glaucous. Petals 4-5 lines long. ‘ 
92. M. sarmentosum (Haw. Syn, 238); 
trate, sarmentaceous, rooting at the nodes ; leaves erectish, triquetrous, 
equalsided, mucronulate, roughish at the margins ; pedicels bigeminate 
_ or ternate. Salm Dyck. l. ¢ t. tt. M. filament Ya 
M. scabvum, Thunb.! herb. T. filamentosum, EB. & Z.! 2001. 
ot recurvate, not evidently serru- 
inches long, about 3 lines wide, 
stem diffuse ; branches pros- 
