Mesembryanthemum.] MESEMBRYACEZ (Sond.) 429 
spreading, glaucous, smooth ; flowers large, purplish. Salm Dyck, fase. 
I. t. 27. : 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Stem 2 feet high ; branches decussate. Leaves 1-1} inches long, 2-3 lines wide, 
bluntish, mucronulate. Flowers about 3 inches in diameter. Peduncles 1-1} 
inches long, thickened upwards ; bracts leafy. Calyx turbinate. Petals subtri- 
seriate, broad-lanceolate. Styles 5, very short, roundish. 
170. M. coralliflorum (Salm Dyck, l.c. t. 28); stem and branches 
erect ; leaves distant, subconnate, clavate-elongate, subcylindrical, spread- 
ing, in- or re-curvate, glaucous, smooth ; flowers on very long pe- 
duncles. M. corallinum, Haw. Rev. 154. excl. syn. Thunb. M. laeve, 
Haw. misc. 64 ? 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Distinct from the preceding by the more slender and branched stems ; subclavate, 
at the apex not attenuated leaves ; longer peduncled, somewhat smaller flowers and 
uniseriate petals. Leaves about 2 inches long, 1} lines wide. Peduncle 4-6 inches 
long. Styles 5 or 4, acutish. 
171. M. stipulaceum (Linn. Spec. 693) ; stem and branches erect ; 
leaves crowded, subdistinct, linear-elongate, semiterete, spreading, recurved, 
very glaucous, smooth ; axils very proliferous ; flowers purplish. Dill. 
Elth. t. 209. f. 267, 268. Salm Dyck, 1. ¢. t. 29. E. &. Z.1 2031. M. 
laeve, E. & Z.! 2033. ea pte. 
Haz. Near Gauritzriver, Swellendam, and in dist. Uitenhage, Dec. (Herb. D. 
-) 
Distinct from M. coralliflorum by a shorter stem, more crowded, at the apex not 
incrassate leaves, smaller flowers and effuse stamens. Stem 1—14 inches high. 
Leaves 1}-2 inches long, 1-2 lines wide. Peduncles solitary, rarely subternate, 
172. M. productum (Haw. Phil. Mag. Dec. 1834. p. 425); stem and 
branches erect ; leaves crowded, subdistinct, elongate, semiterete, erect- 
incurved, glaucous, smooth ; flowers bigeminate or ternate, pale rose- 
coloured ; calyx-lobes elongate, 2 longer equalling the petals. Salm 
Dyck, fase. 2. t. 19. Ad. tetragonum, E.&Z.! 2035. M. tenuifolium, 
Thunb.! herb. 3. 
Van. B. lepidum (Salm Dyck, 1. c.) ; stem higher ; flowers whitish. 
Has. Karro hills near Zwartkopsriver ; Winterhoeksberg and near Bethelsdorp, 
Zeyher | 2594; Albany, Williamson. Var. B. in the Capeflats, Nov. (Herb. Thunb. 
D 
lindrical, bluntish mucronulate. Peduncles 1-14 inches long, thickened above, 
as long or a ittle than the lanceolate petals. Styles 5, clavate, acute. By 
the inflorescence, the elongated calyx-lobes and smaller flowers it is easily dis- 
inguished from the preceding. 
173. M. Zeyheri (Salm Dyck, fase. 5. t. 2 5); stem and branches 
erect, subflexuous, leaves much crowded, subdistinct, elongate, terete, 
incurved, erect, attenuated on both ends, acute, very smooth and green ; 
flowers solitary, purplish ; calyx-lobes broad, much shorter than the 
petals, M. Haworthi, E. & Z, | 2032. 
