428 MESEMBRYACEZ (Sond.) [Alesembryanthemum. 
peduneles bracteate. Calyx 5, rarely 4-cleft. Stigmas 5, 4 or 8. (Sp. 
166-168.) 
166, M. veruculatum (Linn. Spec. 696) ; leaves fasciculate, incur- 
vate, subsebaceous, mealy-pruinose, subtrigonous, cylindrical, mucro- 
nate ; flowers yellow, mostly ternate, subsessile ; calyx 5-cleft ; stigmas 
5. Dill. Hlth. t. 203. f.259. DC. Pl. Grass. t. 36. Salm Dyck, fase. 
3. t. 28. EB. & Z./ 2030. 
Has. Mountain sides near Brackfonteyn, Clanwilliam, Oct._Nov. (Herb Sd.) 
Stem 1 foot or more, branches tortuose. Leaves connate, 1-1} inches long, 3-4 
lines wide, arcuate-incurvate, when young erect, obsoletely trigonous, with an 
evident, purplish mucro. Pedicels 2-4 lines long, at the base and in the middle 
with 2 leafy bracts. Calyx hemispherical, lobes subequal, with broadly membrana- 
crous margins. Petals yellow, scarcely longer than the calyx. 
167. M. monticolum (Sond.) ; leaves fasciculate incurvate, subseba- 
ceous, mealy-pruinose, obtusely trigonous, mucronate ; flowers croceous, 
ternate, pedunculate, lateral peduncles enclosed by 2 connate bracts, 
the intermediate bractless; calyx 4-cleft ; stigmas 8. 
Has. Stoofkraal, Zeyh.! Mar. ((Herb. Sd.) 
Shrub with woody, tortuous, short branches. Leaves connate, a little sheathing, 
1 inch long, 3 lines wide, when dry evidently trigonous. Flowers the size of those 
of M, veruculatum, or a little larger. Peduncles 5-6 lines long, compressed ; bracts 
ofthe two lateral peduncles sheathing from the base to the middle, the upper or 
free part leafy, trigonal, acute, equalling the flowers. Calyx-lobes subequal, keeled. 
Styles subyMMte, longer than the stamens. 
_ 168. M. veruculoides (Sond) ; leaves fasciculate, erectish, scarcely 
incurvate, soft, mealy-pruinose, cylindrical, flattish above, obtuse, with 
a very short mucro ; flowers croceous, ternate, rarely solitary, peduncu- 
late ; lateral peduncles bracteate at the middle, the intermediate bract- 
less ; calyx 4-5-cleft ; stigmas 5. M. veruculatum, 8. Herb. Thunb. ! 
Var. minus; leaves smaller, flowers mostly solitary. M. pruinosum, E. § Z.! 
2110. non Thunb. / 
Has. In Hantum, Thunberg ; "Kamus, Feb.; Droogekraal, Hartveld, June, 
Zeyher! var. B. fields near Zwartkopsriver, Zey. / 2585 ; Rhinosterkop, dist. Beau- 
fort, Zeyher ! 684 ; Roggeveld, A. Wyley. (Herb. Thunb., D., Sond.) 
_ Stem procumbent, terete, soft, glabrous. Leaves connate, 1-1} inches long, 3 
lines in diameter, obsoletely trigonous. Peduncles subequal, 1 inch long, com- 
pressed, thickened above. vaginate, limb leafy, as long as the peduncle. 
easy unequal, 2 longer and blunt. Petals a little longer than the calyx, 
near, obtuse. Capsule turbinate, subangulate, 8-10 valved. QyVar. 8. is smaller, 
more depressed, leaves 3—1 inch 2 lines wide, the flowé i . 
Very aimaiie ts ie hank? long, wide, flowers are not different 
§. 40. HAWORTHIANA, DC. (Corallina, Haw.) Stem fruticose, 
erect, branches decussate. eaves subcylindrical, elongate, more or 
less subulate, glaucous, punctate. Flowers solitary (or in M. productum 
ternate), showy, reddish, long peduncled ; peduncles bracteate. Calyx 
5-cleft. Stigmas 5. (Sp. 169-173.) 
169. M. Haworthii (Don. Hort. Cantab. 66); stem and branches 
erect ; leaves somewhat crowded, subdistinct, incrassate, semicylindri- 
cal, subcompressed at the top, attenuated on both ends, subincurved, 
