a bea 
Mesembryanthemum.| MESEMBRYACEZ (S id) 449 x 
Stem 2 feet. Branches opposite, erect-spreading, subfastigiate, terete, greyish, 
papulose. Leaves 1 inch long, 1 line wide, upper ones gradually shorter. Flowers 
smaller than in the preceding. Peduncle 1-2 lines long. Calyx subturbinate, pa- 
pulose, glittering, 5-cleft, 3 lines long ; lobes erect, two longer and more obtuse. 
Petals equalling the calyx, or a little longer. Styles filiform, as long as the stamens. 
252, M. auratum (Sond.); stem substrumose, with the branches 
erect, crystalline-papillose ; leaves connate, terete, subcanaliculate above, 
very obtuse, papulose ; flowers terminal, ternate or solitary, yellow ; 
lobes of calyx unequal, three of them longer, cylindraceous, obtuse ; 
styles long. M. aureum, Thunb.! Fl. Cap. 425. non Linn. nec Haw. 
Has. Karro, between Olifantsriver and Bocklandsberg, Thunberg ; Springbokkeel 
and Kamos, Zeyher. Oct.-Feb. (Herb. Thunb. Sd.) 
Near the preceding. Stem more robust, 2-3 feet high ; colour of the branches 
not greyish but yellowish. Leaves shorter and thicker (6-8 lines long, 13 line wide), 
the rudiments of old remaining leaves very spinous, in M. decussatum wanting or not 
spinous. Peduncles longer, intermediate 4-1 inch long without bracts, lateral ones 
longer, bibracteate. Flowers golden-yellow. Calyx 5-cleft, 6 lines long or longer ; 
lobes thicker, as long as the petals. Capsule turbinate, 5-valved, } inch long. 
253. M. spinuliferam (Haw, Rev. 176. Syn.252); stem very thick, 
strumose ; branches incrassate, tortuose-erect ; leaves connate, semicylin- 
drical, canaliculate, attenuate, acute, green, erystalline-papulose ; flowers 
ternate, pedunculate, pale-straw-coloured ; calyx 4-cleft ; styles very short. 
Salm Dyck, fase. 4. t. 30. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope (v. v.) 
Stem 1 foot high ; old branches smooth. Leaves 1-14 inch long, 2-3 lines wide 
at the base, gradually attenuate, not persistent and spinous. Peduncles 6-9 lines 
long, thick, ebracteate. Calyx about } inch long ; lobes unequal or subequal. Petals 
somewhat longer. Capsule 4-valved. 
253, M. grossum (Haw. Syn. 252); stem strumose, as well as the 
branches ascending; leaves connate, semicylindrical, canaliculate at the 
base, flattish near the attenuate bluntish apex, green, crystalline-papu- 
lose ; flowers ternate, pale-reddish ; calyx 5-cleft, lobes unequal, two 
longer, cylindraceous; styles very short. Salm Dyck, lc, t. 31. M. rapa- 
ceum, E. & Z.! 2086. 
Has. Fields near Zwartkopsriver. Oct. (Hb. Sd.) 
It differs from the very similar M. spinuliferum by much shorter stem and branches, 
subspinous as mer rudiments of leaves, bracteate lateral peduncles, and rosy 
flowers. M. grossum, E. § Z.! 2085, comes very near, but differs in several points. 
The specimen is insufficient. 
255. M. longispinulum (Haw. Phil. Mag. Dec. 1824. p. 426) ; stem 
and branches elongate, filiform, prostrate or creeping; leaves connate, 
in the flowering, upper branches mostly alternate, semicylindrical, sub- 
canaliculate, attenuate, acute, greenish, as well as the branches and pe- 
duncles, crystalline-papulose ; peduncles 1-flowered, but often irregularly 
branched, and then 3-7 flowered ; flowers pale-yellow ; calyx 5-cleft, 
lobes elongated, acute, nearly as long as the petals ; styles shorter than 
the stamens. Salm Dyck, l.c. t. 32. M. calycinum, E. § 2.2077. 
Has. Sandy places in Cape Flats near Rietvalley, Sept.—Nov. (Herb. Sd.) 
Stem and branches often several feet long, filiform ; young branches short, with 
very crowded leaves. Remnants of leaves only on the higher branches, flexible, not 
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