432 MESEMBRYACE (Sond.) [Mesembryanthemum. 
nate-cymose, fragrant ; peduncles long, thickened above ; ovarium 
Var. a. pheniceum (Haw. Rev. 179) ; flowers white inside, and scarlet outside. 
Dill. Elth. t. 206. f. 262. Salm Dyck, fase. 4, t. 17. DC. Pl. Grass. t. 10. 
Var. 8. stramineum (Haw. Rev. 179) ; flowers white inside, and straw-coloured 
outside. Dill. Elth. t. 206. f. 263. 
Var. y. fulvum (Salm Dyck, fasc. 6. t. 17) ; flowers mostly ternate, white inside 
and fulvous outside. MU. fulvum, DC. I. c. 445. 
Has. Springbokkeel, Zeyher! 700. (Herb. Sd.) 
Distinguished from M. defoliatum by somewhat thicker leaves, long peduncled 
flowers, obtuse calyx-lobes and a sweet-scented, twice larger flower. Stem 2~3 feet 
high. Leaves 1-14 inch long, 3 lines wide. Peduncles and pedicels t inch long, 
terete, intermediate without bracts, lateral ones with two leafy bracts in the middle. 
Flower 14 inch in diameter. Calyx subturbinate, 2 lobes longer, obtuse. Styles 
4 subulate. 
183, M. tetragonum (Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. 426); stem erect as well as 
the branches subtetragonal ; leaves spreading subcylindrical, obtuse, 
deciduous ; flowers ternate or biternate-cymose ; peduncles longish 
compressed, thickened above ; ovarium fetragonal. M. fasciculatum, 
Th. fl. 
Has. in Hantam, Thunberg ; Springbokkeel, Komseep, Zeyher 2955, 702. Mart. 
(Herb. Thunb. Sd.) 
Stem t foot high, more branched than the foregoing, branches patent, pale green 
straw-coloured. Leaves subincurved, 6-12 lines long, 2-3 lines wide, very obtuse, 
flattish above. Peduncles about 1 inch long or shorter, intermediate bractless, 
lateral ones near the middle, with 2 leafy bracts. Flowers as large as those of M. 
defoliatum, yellowish (Thunberg). Calyx lobes obtuse, 2 longer. Styles 4 subulate. 
Ripe capsule angulate, turbinate. 
§. 44. SPLENDENTTA, Salm Dyck, DC. (Digitiflora, Haw.) Stem 
suffruticose, erect, branched. eaves crowded, distinct, subcylindrical, 
spreading-recurved, without dots, when young sulcate above. Flowers 
solitary, or rarely ternate, white, middle-sized. Calyx 4-5 cleft, lobes 
leafy. Stigmas 4-5. (Sp. 184-191.) 
184. M. sulcatum (Haw. Rev. 173); stem and branches erect, straight ; 
_ leaves crowded, linear-subulate, bluntish, green, when young erecto- 
incurvate, canaliculate, when old expanded, subterete ; calyx lobes un- 
equal ; flowers very pale rose-coloured. Salm Dyck, fase. 3. f. 30. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Shrub 2 feet. Leaves 4-1 inch long, 1 line wide, mucronulate. Peduncles about 
1 inch long, very minutely papillate. Calyx lobes 5, subulate, three of them shorter. 
Petals 8-10 lines long. Styles 5, subulate. Perhaps a variety of the following. 
185. M. splendens (Linn. Spec. 689) ; stem and branches fleauous- 
erect ; leaves crowded, semiterete, glaucous-green, when young erect, re- 
curved at the apex, when old very patent, bluntish ; calyx lobes equal, 
abbreviate, subulate ; flowers white. Dill. Hlth. t. 204. f. 260. DC. 
Pl. Grass. t. 35. Salm Dyck, fase. 6. t. 4. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope (v. v.) 
Leaves 6-12 lines long, 2 lines wide, the axils very proliferous. Peduncle short, 
thickened above, a little papillate as well as the subclavate calyx. Petals bidentate, 
6 lines long. Styles 5. 
