414 MESEMBRYACEZ (Sond.) [Mesembryanthemum. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope (v.v.) 
Branches subflexuous. Leaves in sterile branches crowded, in fertile ones distant, 
12-14 lines long, 4 lines wide, acinaciform, mucronulate, punctate, lateral angles 
entire. Flowers small, solitary, rarely geminate. Calyx globose, lobes large, thick, 
triquetrous, erect. Petals pale red or whitish, interior ones very short. 
105, M. mutabile (Haw. Obs. 377. Syn. 294) ; stem and branches 
subtortuous, erect; leaves nearly distinct, crowded, glaucous-green, 
compressed-triquetrous, acute, incurved, carinal angle entire, cartilagi- 
nous ; petals dinear-subulate, a little longer than the calyx. Salm Dyck, 
l. c. fase. 4.t. 10. M. tricolor, faseg. hort. Schoenb. t. 440. M. glaucinum, 
Haw. Rev. 132. M. forficatum, Jacq. hort.-Vind. 1. t. 26. M. jfilamento- 
sum, DC. Pl. Grass. t. 60. 
Has. In district of Uitenhage, Ecklon! Langevalley, Rhinosterkop, dist. Beau- 
fort, et Gamkariver, April—June, Zey. 682, 689, (Herb. Sd.) 
Branches straw-coloured or reddish, old ones terete. Leaves 6-8 lines long, 2-3 
lines wide, mucronate, and the angles often cartilaginous undulate, but always en- 
tire. Flowers mostly solitary, peduncle thickened upwards. Calyx subglobose, 
about 4 lineslong. Petals rose-coloured, interior ones much shorter, pale yellowish. 
106. M. inclaudens (Haw. Rev. 133) ; stem and branches tortuous, 
spreading ; leaves subconnate, crowded, green, compressed-triquetrous, 
acute, acinaciform, carinal angle much dilated, entire or subscabrous ; 
petals subspathulate, longer than the calyx. Andr. Repos. t. 384. M. mu- 
tabile and inclaudens, E & Z.! 2004 et 2005. Salm Dyck, l. c. fase. 3. 
t. 18, 
Has. Rocksin Hottentotshollandskloof, Oct. Cape flats, Zeyher/ 2918. (Hb. Sd.) 
Leaves 7-30 lines long, at the dilated apex 3-4 lines wide, with large dots, Pe- 
duncles 1-2, about 14-2 inches long, rarely without bracts. Calyx turbinate, lobes 
triquetrous, about twice longer than the calyx-lobes ; the interior very short and 
and small, purplish. Distinguished from the preceding by the subdeltoid acinaci- 
form leaves and the broad petals. 
107. M. Dregeanum (Sond.) ; stem and branches erect ; leaves sub- 
connate, crowded, glaucous-green, compressed-triquetrous, mucronate, 
acinaciform, carinal angle much dilated, entire or scarcely denticulate, 
dotted ; petals (white) /inear-subulate, three times longer than the calyx. 
M. strictum et eymbifolium, EL. & Z.! 2011, 2012. 
Has. Sandy and stony places at h wh 
Dose. ee ter. Si) i) Tulbagh and Vogelvalley, Worcester, Z. § Z./ 
Stem 2 feet or higher, ish or red, subpruinose, terete-angulate ; branches com- — 
pressed, ultimate 2-ed reddish. Leaves smaller than in any other species of 
this section, 3-4 lines long, 1}-2 lines broad, with large dots, much compressed, 
Flowers terete or solitary ; the upper lateral, short branchlets often terminated by 
a flower. Terminal peduncles {-1 inch long, inferior ones (branchlets) 14-24 inches. 
ese Nak ae ae 2 of the lobes triquetrous, green, the rest larger, obtuse, 
- subcoloured. Wi wish, lines long, e 
ee on toe dry pale yellowish, 8-9 ong, acute. Capsule 4 
§. 22. BRACTEATA, Salm Dyck. (Haw.) DC. Stem suffrutescent, 
branches erect, much compressed. Leaves distinct, compressed-trique- 
trous, hooked at the apex, subreeurved, more or less scabrous from dots. 
Flowers pedunculate, girded by 2-4 broadly ovate, keeled bracts, which 
generally clasp the calyx, solitary, reddish, always expanded ; inner 
petals thread-like. Calyx 5-cleft. Stigmas 5. (Sp. 108-114.) 
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