Mesembryanthemum.| MESEMBRYACEZ (Sond.) 437 
duncles smooth at the base ; petals variable, yellow, at length becoming 
reddish. Salm Dyck, l.c. t.34. #.& Z./ 2049. Zeyh. 2612. 
Has. Sandy places near the sea shore, Saldanhabay. Oct. (Herb. Thunb. 8d.) 
From the foregoing it is only distinct by more spreading or effuse branches and a 
different colour of the petals. 
203. M. bicolorum (Linn. Spec. 95) ; stem and branches erect ; leaves 
subtriquetrous, erect, acute, green ; peduncles and caleyes papulose-scabrous ; 
petals yellow inside and scarlet outside. Dull. Hlth. t. 202. f. 288. 
Sali Dyck, fase. 4.t. 18. E. &Z.! 2046. M. coccineum and emarginatum, 
E. § Z.! 2047 and 2057. M. tenuifolium, Thund.! herb. ex pte. 
Has. Sandy places in Cape Flats and on the sides of Tablemountain, near 
Brackfontein. May-Sept. (Herb. Thunb., D., Sd.) 
Distinguished from M. coceinewm by the scabrous-papulose peduncle and calyx, 
and yellow flowers ; the dots on the leaves are also more evident. Calyx-lobes 
unequal. : 
204. M. inequale (Haw. Syn. 266); stem and branches slender, 
effusely decumbent ; leaves semicylindrical-triquetrous, green ; fructife- 
rous peduncles compressedly clavate ; petals croccous with a red line on 
the outside, Salm Dyck, lc. t. 19. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Very near M. bicolorum, and perhaps a variety. Branches decumbent, peduncle 
longer and more slender, flowers paler on the outside. Calyx-lobes longer than 
the membrane ; in M. bicolorwm not longer. 
205. M. tenuifolium (Linn. Spec. 693); stem and branches effuse- 
procumbent; leaves linear-semiterete, subulate, punctate, as well as the 
peduncles smooth ; flowers scarlet. Dill. Hlth. t. 201. f. 256. DC. Pi. 
Grass. t. 82. Salm Dyck, l. c. t. 21. 
Var, B. minus; stem and branches elongate, prostrate, often creeping or root- 
ing ; branches erect, short ; leaves 4-1 inch long. 
Has. Near Capetown, var. B., in the Cape Flats. (Herb. Sd.) 
Branches numerous, decumbent, Leaves longer than the internodes, 13-2 inches 
long, 1 line wide, pellucid-punctate. Flowers solitary ; peduncle 1-2 inches long. 
Calyx a little scabrous, lobes acute. It varies with suberect stem, and very rarely 
with 4-cleft calyx and 4-valved capsule. 
206. M, stenum (Haw. Phil. Mag. 1831. 420) ; stem and branches 
slender, effuse, flexuous ; leaves incurvate-erect, subterete, mucronate, 
attenuate at the base, glaucescent, without dots ; peduncles compressed ; 
petals rose-coloured. Sulm Dyck, l. ¢. t. 20. 
Has, Cape of Good Hope. 
Much branched. Leaves numerous, 6-15 lines long, 1 line wide. Flowers ter- 
nate, by abortion solitary, about an inch in diameter. Peduncles 1 inch long, the 
lateral bracteate. Different from the other species of the section by the rosy flowers 
and not punctate leaves. 
§. 47. ADUNGA, Salm Dyck, Haw. DC. Stem suffruticose, dwarf, 
branches flexuous, suberect or prostrate. Leaves crowded at the top ‘of 
the branches, subcylindraceous, subulate, patent, usually incurved, 
hooked at the apex. Flowers solitary, small, reddish, pedunculate ; 
peduncles bracteate. Calya 5-cleft, in one species 4-cleft, Stgmas 5, 
very rarely 4. (Sp. 207-211.) 
