Mesembryanthemum | MESEMBRY ACE (Sond.) 411 
Var. f. rigidius (Salm Dyck, 1. c.); more robust, internodes shorter ; leaves 
slender. M. simile, Haw. Rev. 115. 
Has. Sandy places, Cape Flats, in Zwartland. Oct.—Nov. (Herb. Thunb. Sd.) 
Stem and branches often 2 feet or more long ; flowering stem erect, 3-4 inches 
long. Leaves fasciculate, mostly 1 inch, sometimes 14—2 inches long, 3 lines wide, 
obtuse, with often recurved point, more roughish near the apex. Upper leaves and 
bracteas 4 inch or shorter. Pedicels 3-1 inch, incrassate at the apex. Calyx 2-2} 
lines. Petals not much longer. Ripe capsule turbinate as in the preceding. 
93. M. geminiflorum (Haw. Rev. 114); stem diffuse; branches slen- 
der, creeping ; leaves erect-spreading, triquetrous, equalsided, acute, 
recurved at the apex, roughish at the margins; pedicels bigeminate or 
ternate. Salm Dyck, 1. c. fase. 1. t. 16. M. geminatum, Jacq. Fragm. 
t. 50. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Very like the preceding, and only distinguished by the slender, not sarmentaceous 
branches, more attenuated and recurved leaves. Stems 2 feet. Leaves 2 inches 
long, 2 lines wide. Petals scarcely 3 lines long. 
94. M. laxum (Willd. Enum. 536); stem loose, diffuse, shrubby ; 
branches creeping, very slender ; leaves connate, compressed, triquetrous, 
more green than the others, tubercularly dotted, usually shorter than the 
internodes ; margins and keels finely denticulated. Haw. Rev. 115. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers reddish. 
§, 18. REPTANTIA, Salm Dyck. (Humillima, Haw. DC.) Stem 
suffruticose, short, prostrate, nodulose, rooting at the nodes. Leaves 
subconnate, opposite, triquetrous, with smooth margins. — Flowers soli- 
tary, pedunculate, reddish or whitish. Calyx 5-cleft. Stigmas 5. [M. 
clavellatum, Haw. and M. Australe, Ait. in New Holland.] (Sp. 95-99.) 
95. M. crassifolium (Linn. Spec. 693); stem semiterete, creeping ; 
leaves obtuse, triquetrous, mucronulate, dotless, very green, smooth, 
semi-cylindrical at the base ; peduncles a little compressed, without 
bracts, short. Haw. Syn. 241. Salm Dyck, 1. ¢. fase. 1. t. 18. 
Has. Sandy places Uylenkraal. Zeyher (Herb. Sd.) ; 
Stem prostrate, very long, 1 foot or longer, terete. Leaves fasciculate, erecto- 
patent, 1 inch long, 1}-2 lines wide, half cylindrical at the base, triquetrous at the 
apex. Peduncles 1 inch long, thickened upwards. Calyx subturbinate, twice shorter 
than the purplish petals. Very like M. lave, Thunberg, but the leaves are nearly 
twice smaller. 
96, M, dunense (Sond.) ; stems prostrate, adscending ; leaves trique- 
trous, equal-sided, acute, glaucous-green, smooth ; peduncles with 
two large flattish bracts ; calyx lobes acuminate, triquetrous, longer than _ 
the petals. — ra 
Has. Sea shore, near Cape Town, Ecklon, Dr. Pappe. (Herb. D. Sd.) 
Stems 3-4 inches long, purplish. Leaves erectish, about 1 inch long, 3 lines wide, 
- wider at the base, with dispersed dots. Bracts somewhat larger than the leaves, 
dotted, flattish, but attenuated in a triquetrous apex, longer than the compressed 
peduncle. Calyx very cuneate, lobes 4 inch long, dotted, 2 or 3 at the base, with 
a brownish, large, membranaceous margin. Petals white, linear, twice shorter than 
