424 MESEMBRYACEZ (Sond.) [MJesembryanthemum. 
- Has. Hills near Zwarteberg & Babylons Toorensberg, Caledon. July. (Herb. Sd.) 
Leaves 6-10 lines long, 2 lines wide, triquetrous, angles not dentate. Flowers 
as in the preceding. Peduncle 6 lines long. Petals purplish with a dark dorsal 
line. 
§. 34. MICROPHYLLA, Salm Dyck, Haw. DC. Stem suffrutescent, 
short, much branched, as well as the branchlets divaricate. Leaves 
minute, connate, triquetrous, aristate, with large and pellucid dots. 
Flowers on the tops of the branches solitary, small, reddish. Calyx 
5-cleft. Stigmas 5. (Sp. 148-152.) 
148. M. pulchellum (Haw. Misc. 72. Syn. 298) ; stems and branches 
decumbent, tortuous, terete ; leaves minute, triquetrous, with equal 
convex sides, somewhat boat-shaped, aristate-mucronate, glaucous, ciliated 
with pubescence on the angles, especially on the keel. Salm Dyck, 
Jase. 2. 17. M. canescens, Haw. Rev. 135. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Stem 1 foot. Branches retroflex. Leaves crowded on the tops of the branches, 
erecto-spreading, 4 lines long, 14 lines wide. Peduncle 4-3 inch, thickened upwards. 
Calyx turbinate, lobes subequal. Petals about 4 inch long, acute, pale rose-coloured. 
Styles 5, erect, filiform, longer than the stamens. 
149. M. microphyllum (Haw. Obs. 417. Syn. 297); stem short, as 
well as the branches slender, crowded ; leaves minute, subconnate, 
triquetrous, bluntish, mucronulate, green, shining, pustulate at the base 
on the inside, carinal angle subconvex and very entire beneath. Salm 
Dyck, fase. 6. t. 12. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Branches 3-4 inches high, Leaves very spreading, 2 lines long, 1 line wide. 
Peduncles 4-6 lines long. Calyx obconical, lobes subequal. Petals twice longer 
than the calyx, rose-coloured, whitish at the base. Styles 5, filiform, shorter than 
the stamens. 
150. M. aristulatum (Sond.) ; stem very short or none; branches 
long, prostrate, compressed, flowering branchlets very short, leafy ; leaves 
much crowded, connate, erectish, triquetrous, equal-sided, (when dry 
somewhat canaliculate above), glaucous, acute, mucronate-aristate, angles 
acute, very thinly ciliate. M. forficatum, E. & Z.! 2023. 
Has. Stony places on the sides of Lionsmountain. August. (Herb. Sd.) 
Branches 1 foot or more long, creeping, somewhat rooting at the nodes, glabrous. 
Flowering branchlets half an inch long. Leaves much crowded in the axils, 3-4 
lines long, t line wide, acute, dotted, mucro recurved. Peduncle shorter than the 
leafy bracts, about 2-3 lines long. Calyx dotted, lobes subequal, aristate, 24 lines 
long, with a small membranous in. Petals pale red (when dry) scarcely longer 
than the calyx. Styles 5, subulate, as long as the stamens. Distinguished by the 
et branches, acute angles, and very small flowers. In habit is like M. Ros- 
um, 
151. M. mucronatum (Haw. Misc. 73. Syn. 297); stem very short, 
erect, much branched ; leaves oblong-ovate, triquetrous at the apex, 
Sora at the base, glaucescent, terminated in a white mucro, coarsely 
otted. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Stem 1-3 inches, Leaves 3 lines long. Flowers unknown. 
