Mesembryanthemum.| MESEMBRYACEZ (Sond_.) 419 
_ 125. M. conspicuum (Haw. Syn. 240); branches tortuous, adscend- 
ing; leaves crowded, green, incurved, erect, triquetrous, attenuate, acute ; 
flowers and filaments purplish. Salm Dyck, fase, 2 t. 1. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope (v.v-) 
Stem 1-14 feet, rigid. Leaves 2-23 inches long, 2 lines wide. Floriferous 
branches erect, with distant leaves. Peduncles about 3 inches long. Calyx turbi- 
—_ Petals subtriseriate, 9 lines long, beautifully red. Styles 5, thick, acutish, 
suberect. 
126. M. amoenum (Salm Dyck, in DC. Prod. 3. 436) pivscsees sub- 
— erect ; leaves crowded, green, incurved, erect, cylindrically-triquetrous, 
bluntish, mucronulate ; flowers purplish, filaments white. Monog. 2. t. 12. 
Has. Near Grahamstown, Nov. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
Nearly allied to the preceding, and only distinguished by the shorter stem and 
horter (I-14 inches long, 2 lines wide) cylindrically-trigonous, nearly subclavate, 
bluntish leaves. Peduncles 8-12 inches, petals 6-7 lines long. Styles 5, patent, 
acute. 
127. M. spectabile (Haw. Obs. 385. Syn. 240); branches ascending ; 
leaves crowded, glaucous, ineurved, patent, triguetrous, attenuate, mu- 
cronate ; flowers purplish, filaments white. Bot. Mag. t. 396. DC. 
Pl. Grass. t. 153. Salm Dyck, l. ce. t. 13. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope (v.v.) 
Stem prostrate, floriferous, elongate. Leaves keeled, 2-3 inches long, 3 lines 
wide. Peduncles bracteate in the middle and above, 3-6 inches long. Calyx tur- 
binate. Petals spreading, 1 inch long, the inner shorter. Styles 5, erect, deltoid 
or obovate at the apex. 
128. M. formosum (Haw. Rev. 145); sterile branches very short, 
floriferous ones elongated ; leaves crowded, subdistinct, incurved- 
patent, triguetrous, elongated, bluntish, mucronulate, green; petals 
purplish ; filaments white. Salm Dyck, fase. 3.4. 21, 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. : : 
Differs from M. amoenum by the prostrate flowering branches, carinate-triquetrous, 
thicker leaves, and short peduncles ; from M. spectabile by the green, not glaucous, 
leaves, ternate, short peduncled, much smaller flowers. Leaves 2 inches long, 3 
lines wide. Peduncles rigid, 1-14 inch long. Petals bidentate. Styles 5, erect- 
spreading, thick, acute, ramentaceous. — 
§. 28. DILATATA, Haw. Stem fruticose, branches erect-spread- 
ing. Leaves crowded, glaucous, much dotted, compressed-triquetrous, 
attenuate at the base, much dilated and recurved above the middle. 
Flowers small, pale, rose-coloured, mostly solitary. Calyx 5-cleft. Stig- 
mas 5. (Sp. 129.) 
129. M. dilatatum (Haw. Syn. 303) ; branches subflexuous, rigid ; 
leaves spreading, acute-recurvate, attenuated at the base, dilated above 
the middle, triquetrous-compressed, angles obtuse, pellucid-punctate ai 
flowers solitary. Salm Dyck, fasc. 6. t. 9. | 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. : 
Stem woody, 14 inch; branches yellowish. Leaves 1-14 inches long, 3 lines 
wide, obtuse. Peduncele tender, 1 inch long, with 2 small, foliaceous bracts. Calyx 
obconical. Petals uniseriate, spreading, subrecurved, lanceolate, twice longer than 
the calyx-lobes. Styles 5, thick, acute. 
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