Mesembryanthemum.| MESEMBRYACE (Sond.) 451 
Has. Karro-like hills near Zwartkopsriver, Feb. Zey./ 2614. (Herb. Sd.) 
Root fleshy, somewhat tuberous. Branches 2-4 incheshigh. Leaves subdistant, 
10-12 lines long, 1 line wide. Peduncle short, thickened upwards. Calyx 4, rarely 
5-cleft, 7-8 lines long, lobes unequal. Petals uniseriate, as long as the longest 
calyx lobe. Styles 5, erect, subulate. 
260. M. salmoneum (Haw. Rev.176); stem and branches very 
slender, somewhat creeping ; leaves crowded, spreading, narrow-lanceo- 
late, obtuse, convex beneath, flattish, sulcate above, green, glittering from 
minute papule ; peduncle subtrichotomous ; flowers yellowish, rose- 
coloured at the apex; calyx subglobose, 5-cleft, Salm Dyck, fase. 2. t. 23. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. 
- Very similar to M, canaliculatum, but differing by its shorter (6-8 lines long) on 
both ends attenuated minute papillose leaves, globose calyx, and pluriseriate, dif- 
ferently coloured petals. Branches some inches long. Peduncle trichotomous, 
dichotomous or rarely 1-flowered. Calyx-lobes short, subequal, three times shorter 
than the petals. 
261. M. crassulinum (DC. 1. c. 445); stem and branches filiform, 
prostrate ; leaves distant, spreading, narrow-lanceolate, subacute, con- 
vex beneath, subsulcate above, scarcely papillate ; peduncles subsolitary ; 
calyx subglobose, 5-cleft ; petals white. Salm Dyck, l. c.t. 34. M. cras- 
suloides, Haw. Rev. 170. 
Has. Karro-like hills in Hassaquaskloof, Sept. Zeyher / 2611. (Herb. Sd.) 
It differs from M. salmoneum by more distant, scarcely papillate leaves and 
smaller white flowers, not 1 inch, but only 4 inch in diameter. Peduncles filiform, 
without bracts. Petals subuniseriate. 
262, M. incomptum (Haw. Suppl. 96); stem and branches very 
slender, suberect, with elongated internodes; leaves erect, spreading, 
subulate, subacute, convex on both surfaces, subglaucescent, minutely 
papillate ; peduncles ternate, bracteate ; petals white. Salm Dyck, l. c. 
ti 35, 
2 gB. Ecklonis (Salm Dyck, fase. 6. t. 33) ; stem and branches more diffuse, 
ae ; petals at the base and stamens rose-coloured. M. incomptum, E. § Z.! 
2087. 
Has. Hills near Adow, Uitenhage, Aug.-Sept. (Herb. Sd.) 
4-14 foot, weak, very distantly nodulose on the nodes with fasciculate leaves ; 
young branches a little papulose. Leaves 6-10 lines long, 1-14 line wide, semi- 
terete, subulate. Peduncles by abortion 2 or I, subpapillate, 1-2 inches long. 
Flowers 4 inch in diameter. Calyx campanulate with acute lobes, a little shorter 
than the petals. 
§. 57. GENICULIFLORA, DC. (Cylindracea, Haw.) Stem erect, 
as well as the branches herbaceous, but woody at the base. Leaves 
distinct, semiterete, papulose, marcescent-deciduous. Flowers ternate, 
by abortion often solitary in the forks of the branches, yellowish. Calyx 
4-cleft. Stigmas 4. (Sp. 263.) 
263, M. geniculiflorum (Linn. Spec. 688) ; stem frutescent ; branches 
subarticulate, divaricate, papillose ; leaves remote, spreading, linear- 
semicylindrical ; flowers mostly solitary and axillary in the forks of 
the branches. Dill. Hlth. t. 205. f. 261. DO. Pl. Grass. t. 17, Salm 
Dyck, fase. 5. t. 34. £.& Z./ 2089. 
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