450 JMESEMBRYACEZ (Sond.) [ Mesembryanthemum. 
i . Leaves about ! inch long, 1-14 lines wide at the base. Short branches 
setts 1 flowered, larger ones with 2-7, often panicled flowers. Calyx turbinate, 
Jobes subequal or unequal, often as long as the tube. 
956. M. viridiflorum (Ait. Kew. ed. 1. v. 2. 196); stem incrassate ; 
branches nodulose, erect-decumbent ; leaves opposite, connate, seml- 
terete, bluntish, glittering, papulose hairy ; flowers solitary or subternate ; 
calyx 5-cleft, hairy, lobes subequal, leafy ; petals narrow-linear, subfili- 
form, green or greenish-red ; styles very short. Bot. Cab. t. 326. DC. 
Pl. Grass. t. 159. Jacq. Fragm. t. 52. f. 2. Salm Dyck, fase. 5, t. 32- 
M. tenuiflorum, Jacq. Fragm. t. 32. f 3. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Branches 1 foot or longer. Leaves distant, erect-recurved, 1-14 inch long, 2-3 
lines wide, subcanaliculate or flattish above: subspinous remnant on the old 
branches not frequent. Peduncles thick, papillate, 4-6 lines long. Petals as long 
as the longer. cylindrical calyx-lobes. 
§. 55. MONILIFORMIA, Haw. DC. Stem very short, branches 
nodose-moniliform, leafless in the summer. Zeaves produced in autumn, 
2, connate at the base in a green globule, elongate, semiterete, glittering- 
papulose, marcescent and deciduous. Flowers solitary, whitish. Calyx 
4-6-cleft. Stigmas 7-8. (Sp. 257-258.) 
257. M. moniliforme (Thunb. ! Nov. Oct. Nat. Cur. v. 8p. 7. App.) ; 
stem very short, as well as the branches articulate-moniliform, articles 
depressed-globose ; terminal pair of leaves joined into a spherical form ; 
the following ones half-terete, subulate, very long, green, and somewhat 
recurved, 1. Cap. 413. 
Has. Hills near Olifantsriver, Sept. (Herb. Thunb.) 
Branches in Herb. Thunberg woody, 3-4 inches long, branchlets opposite or al- 
ternate, subdistichous, 2-1 inch long, upper ones shorter, consisting of terete 
articles about 4-6 lines in diameter, and 1 line long. Leaves and flowers are 
wanting. Peduncle, as described, angulate, one flowered, erect, terminal, 2 inches 
long. Calyx 4-cleft. Petals snow-white. Styles 7, ex Haw. 
258. M. pusiforme (Haw. Misc. 23. Syn. 207); leaves full of crys- 
talline papule ; the first two united into the form ofa pea ; the follow- 
ing 2 semiterete ; stem much branched and very dwarf. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers unknown. The first leaves are produced in Autumn, and the second in 
winter. 
§. 56. CRASSULINA, Salm Dyck, Haw. (Spinulifera, DC.) Stem 
suberect or prostrate, branches effuse, filiform. eaves linear-semiterete, 
acute, often canaliculate, papulose. lowers solitary or ternate, whitish 
or pale rose-coloured. Calyx 4~5-cleft, lobes elongated. Stigmas 4-5- 
(Sp. 259-262.) 
259. M. canaliculatum (Haw. Misc. 77. Syn. 253); stem and 
branches prostrate, very slender; leaves linear-elongate, spreading oT 
reflexed, convex beneath, canaliculate above, green, crystalline-papulose ; 
flowers solitary, flesh-coloured ; calyx 4-cleft, turbinate. Salm Dyck, 
fase. 5, t. 33. M. reflecum, Willd. 
