422 MESEMBRYACEE (Sond.) [Mesembryanthemum. 
About 1 foot high ; branches flexuous. Leaves rather distant, 1 inch long, 4-5 
lines wide ; carinal angle much compressed. Flowers showy, about 14 inches in 
diameter. Peduncle 1-1} inches long. Calyx subglobose. Petals subuniseriate, 
red, with a darker line from the base to the middle. 
Group III. Prrror1ata.—Stem fruticose or suffruticose, mostly erect. Leaves 
yaginate-connate, more or less triquetrous. (§§. 32-38.) 
§. 32. GEMINATA, Haw. Stem suffruticose, dwarf, as well as the 
branches procumbent, dichotomous. Leaves connate a long way, turgid- 
triquetrous, whitish, smooth, with cartilaginous, entire margins. Flow- 
ers unknown. (Sp. 139-140.) 
139. M. geminatum (Haw. Misc. 92. Syn. 280) ; branchlets dichoto- 
mous, ascending ; leaves triquetrous, erect, glaucous, smooth, cartila- 
ginous at the margins. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers unknown, probably white. 
140. M. marginatum (Haw. Obs. 412. Syn. 294); branches erect ; 
leaves triquetrous, rather acinaciform, glaucous, with whitened margins. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Stem 4 inches high. Leaves small. 
§. 33. UNCINATA, Salm Dyck, DC. (Uncinata et Lineolata, Haw.) 
Stem fruticose, erect, as well as the branches rigid. Leaves sheathing, 
sheaths fleshy, covering the internodes, limb of the leaves abbreviate, 
solid, uncinate ; or elongate, compressed, the carinal angle toothed or 
serrulate. Flowers atthe tops of the branches, solitary, short pe- 
duncled, rather small, reddish. Calyx 5-cleft. Stigmas 5-8. (Sp. 
141-147.) 
* Leaves retuse, not compressed, 
141. M. perfoliatum (Haw. Misc. 92.Syn. 281); erect, with few, 
straight branches; leaves sheathing at the base, rather decurrent, dot- 
ted, whitish, abbreviate, triquetrous, mucronate, hard ; keel 1—2-toothed 
beneath near the apex. Bradl. Succ. Dec. 3. f. 26. dextra. Salm Dyck, 
Jase. 2.t. 14. M. perfoliatum, B. monacanthum, DC. Prod. 3. 430. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Stem 2 feet or higher ; branches simple. Leaves distant, erect-spreading, obtuse- 
triquetrous, mucronate, with nearly convex sides, 8-9 lines long, 3 lines wide at the 
base ; carinal angle with 1, rarely 2 short teeth. Peduncle 3-4 lines long. Flower 
about inch in diameter. Styles 5-6, subulate, erect. 
142. M. viride (Haw. Syn. 283) ; erect, with straight branches ; 
leaves sheathing at the base, rather decurrent, green, subtriquetrous- 
cylindraceous, elongate, incurvate-erect, uncinately recurved at the apex, 
quite entire. Salm Dyck. 1. ¢. t. 15. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Leaves 8-9 lines long, 2 lines wide at the base, shorter than the sheaths. Pe- 
duncle 3-4 lines long. Flowers middle-sized, pale red. Styles 7-8, very short, | 
erect, subulate. It differs from the preceding by the green colour, slender branches, 
and smaller, entire leaves, 
