420 MESEMBRYACEZ (Sond.) [A]esembryanthemum. 
§. 29. FALCATA, DC. (Lunata and Pallidifiora, Haw.) Stem suf- 
fruticose as well as the branches suberect, flexuous or divaricate. 
Leaves crowded, glaucous, triquetrous or subtriquetrous-compressed, 
falcate, with obtuse, smooth angles. Flowers ternate, or in a 
5-flowered cyme, rose-coloured, long pedunculate, peduncle furnished 
with 2-4 bracts. Calyx 5-fid. Stigmas 5. (Sp. 130-134.) 
130. M. falciforme (Haw. Syn. 299); branches spreading ; leaves 
much crowded, triquetrous, falcate, angles acute, the carinal acinaciformly 
dilated, with numerous, large, prominent, dots ; flowers ternate or soli- 
tary, showy. DC.l. ¢. 433. Salm Dyck, fase, 1. t. 23. 
Has, Cape of Good Hope (v.v.) 
Stem 1-2 feet, branches angular. Leaves 6-9 lines long, 2 lines wide, mucro- 
nate. Peduncle thickened upwards, 2-3 inches long ; bracts small, leafy. Flowers 
an inch and a-half in diameter. Calyx turbinate. Petals in many series, lancev- 
late. Filaments white. Styles 5, short, acute, ramentaceous. 
131. M. faleatum (Linn. Spec. 694) ; much branched, branches fili- 
form ; leaves minute, crowded, subtriquetrous-compressed, swhfalcate, 
with obtuse angles, mucronulate, attenuated on both ends, pellucid-pune- 
tate ; flowers ternate, small. Dill. Hlth. t. 213. f. 275,276. Salm 
Dyck, fase. 3. t 22. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Leaves 2-3 lines long, 1 line wide ; dots scattered, large. Peduncles very slender, 
pear we long. Flowers 6-8 lines diameter. Petals biseriate, hhidentats. Styles 
5, su te. 
132. M. lunatum (Willd. Enum. 538); branches suberect, flexuous ; 
leaves crowded, subtriquetrous-compressed, incurvedly half moon shaped ; 
angles obtuse, the carinal dilated, very glaucous, dotless ; flowers ternate, 
or bigeminate, small. DC. 1. c. 433. Salm Dyck, fase. 1. t. 24, M. fal- 
catum, lunatum et falerforme, EB. & Z. 12019-2021. 
_ Has. Stony places on mountain sides near Brackfontein and Vierentwintig Ri- 
vieren, Clanwilliam. June-Sept. (Herb. Sd.) 
8 Leaves thick, 5-6 lines long, 2 lines wide, obtuse, mucronulate. Flowers ternate, 
bigeminate or cymose, §-nate. Peduncle 1 inch, pedicels 4~-} inch long. Petals 
about 4 inch long, pale rose-coloured, acute, when dry whitish. Nearly inter- 
mediate between M, falciforme et faleatum. 
133, M. maximum (Haw. Obs. 402. Syn. 292); stem woody, erect, 
bushy ; leaves crowded, large, very Sh eee Saree in-— 
curvedly half-moon shaped, very glaucous, obtuse, half-stem-clasping, full 
of pellucid dots ; flowers small. DC. 1. c. 433. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Peduncles with 2 bracts. Calyx 5-cleft. Petals reddish. 
134. M. roseum (Willd. Enum. ; branches spreading, leafy; 
leaves attenuate on both ends ; rele glaucous, Bdatiiresbst Wigae. 
trous, the carinal angle dilated above the middle, mucronulate, punctate ; 
flowers ternate or geminate, showy. Salm Dyck, fase. 5, t. 18. DM. mul- 
tiradiatum, Jacq. Fragm. t. 53.f. 1. M. incurvum, var. roseum, DC. 
Var. 8. confertum (Salm Dyck,1c.); branches subtortuous and leaves more 
crowded. M. incurvum et decumbens, Haw. Syn. 300. 
