426 MESEMBRYACEZ (Sond.) [Aesembryanthemum. 
erect, rigid ; leaves about as long as the internodes, green, spreading, 
linear-triquetrous, hamate-recurved at the apex, smooth, but the angles 
roughish near the top. Salm Dyck, l.c. t. 14. M. curtum, y. minus. 
M. hamatam, Willd. Haw. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope (v.v.) = . 
Shrub 2 feet. Leaves sheathing-connate, 6 lines long, equal-sided-triquetrous. 
sometimes quite smooth. Peduncle very short, compressed. Petals 3-4 lines long. 
Styles 5, erect, subulate. 
158. M. acutangula (Haw. Phil. Mag. 64. p. 424); branches erect, 
spreading, rigid ; leaves about as long as the internodes, glaucous-green, 
incurvate-erect, triquetrous, compressed near the apex, carinal angle a 
little dilated, scabrous. Salm Dyck, fasc. 5. t. 21. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Distinguished from M. vaginatum by the incurvate-erect, not recurved, more 
scabrous leaves. Internodes and leaves 6 lines long. Petals 4 lines long. 
159. M. curtum (Haw. Rev. 126. Syn. 334); branches somewhat 
spreading, rigid; leaves longer than the internodes, glaucous-green, 
spreading, triquetrous, attenuate, acute, carinal angle scabrous. Salm 
Dyck, 1. c. t. 22. M. imbricatum, E. § Z.! 2925. 
- ‘Has. Stony places Saldanhabay, Aug.Sept. (Herb. Sd. 
Stem 2 feet. Leaves 6-8 lines Tote, pith a ttle Sear d, the apex ; the 
internodes 3-4 lines long, a little dilated upwards. Peduncle compressed. Flowers 
g-10 lines in diameter. 
§. 37. ZUMIDULA Haw., Salm Dyck, (Paniculata DC.) Stem fruti- 
cose, erect, with the branches rigid. Leaves subdistant, sheathing- 
connate, the sheaths tumid, abbreviate ; limb elongate, triquetrous, 
with smooth angles. Flowers at the top of the flowering branches, sub- 
cymose, small, white or pale rose-coloured ; pedwneles bracteate. Calyx 
5-clsft. Stigmas 5. (Sp. 160-162.) 
160. M. multifloruam (Haw. Mise. 96. Syn. 285); leaves distant, 
longer than the internodes, smooth, glaucous-green, subtriquetrous, linear- 
elongate ; sheaths scarcely tumid ; flowers white ; cyme many-flowered. 
M. imbricatum, Haw. Salm Dyck, fase. 5, t. 23. et fase. 6. t. 3 5. Meapa- 
tens, Willd. M. foliosum, E. d& Z.1 2027. 
lines wide near the sheath, bluntish, mucronulate. Cyme bearing often more than 
20 flowers ; pedicels short, thick. Flowers half an inch in diameter. 
161. M. tumidulum (Haw. Syn. 286); leaves distant, shorter or equal- 
ling the internodes, smooth, glaucous-green, subtriquetrous, Linear-elon- 
gate, erect-recurved ; sheaths very tumid, abbreviate; flowers rose- 
coloured, cymose, Salm Dyck, fase. 5. 24. 
Var. 8. foliosum ; leaves longer, more crowded. WM. foliosum, Haw. Syn. 130. 
Has. Driefonteyn, Zeyher / 698. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
Branches when young often purplish. Leaves 1~2 inches long, 2 lines wide near 
the sheaths, minutely eae poe Lower pedicels of the cyme elongate, slender, 
bracteate in the middle, very large, white-margined. Calyx scarcely turbi- 
nate. Petals longer than in the preceding and following. si 
