Mesembryanthemum.] MESEMBRYACEZ (Sond.) 455 
terminal, sessile, 1-3 together, white; calyx 5-cleft. MM. fastigiatum, 
ee 
Thunb.! Fl. Cap. 413. non Haw. 
Has. On hills in very dry places near Olifantsriver, Oct. Thuwnberg! 
Root annual. Branches some inches high ; branchlets very short. Leaves 4-1 
inch long. Calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse, purplish. The plant is now wanting in herb, 
Thunberg. 2 : 
. rt 
275. M. lanceolatum (Haw. Misc. 45. Rev. 159); stems decumbent ; 
leaves alternate, lanceolate, bluntish, papulose ; calyx and peduncles 
beset with crystalline dots; flowers white. J. Volkameri, Haw. Obs. 
426. é 
‘ Var. 8. roseum (Haw. Rev. 159) ; flowers reddish ; leaves lanceolate-spath 
ate. | ee i 
Has, Cape of Good Hope. 
276. M. clandestinum (Haw. Phil. Mag. 1826, 129); stem very 
short, prostrate, subwoody ; branches ascendent, terete, herbaceous ; 
leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, papillose-shining ; flowers terminal, 
paniculate or subsolitary, small ; petals very minute, white. Salm 
Dyck, fase. 6. t. 36. M. sessiliflorum, 8. album, Haw. Rev. 158. 
Has, Cape of Good Hope. 
Branches 4-1 foot, green, minutely papillose. Leaves distant, thickish, 4-10 
lines long, 2-5 lines wide, attenuated in a short petiole. Peduncles short, mostly 
cymose or dichotomously panicled. Calyx 2 lines long, 2 lobes longer, obtuse. 
Petals uniseriate, scarcely conspicuous. Styles 5, short, acute. 
277. M. lanceum (Thunb.! Fl. Cap. 417); stem erect, subtetrago- 
nal, subpapulose ; leaves sessile, lanceolate, acutish, flat, papulose, erect- 
spreading ; flowers terminal, subternate, middle-sized, white. 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. (Herb. Thunberg.) : 
There ports stems ? pig in herb. Thand. ! about 1 foot high, subflexu- 
ose erect, a little branched at the top. Leaves opposite, subconnate and larger at 
the base, gradually attenuated, about 14 inch long, 4 lines wide, somewhat longer 
than the internodes, upper ones shorter, acute. Intermediate flower short-peduncled, 
without bracts, lateral ones 8-12 lines long, ey to feta gar i ate’ ao 
lose, 3 inch long, lobes acute, subequal, about as long or sho’ than narro 
mae It pce very near M. Cone, L. which has the leaves attenuated at the 
ase. 
278. M. pinnatifidum (Linn. f. Suppl. 260); stems diffuse ; leaves a 
obovate, lyrate pinnatifid, lobes obtuse ; flowers axillary, solitary, pe- Moa cle 
dunculate; petals as long as the calyx, yellow. Bot. Mag. t. 67. DC.” 
Pl. Grass, t. 142. Salm Dyck, fase. 6. t. 35- Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. a7: a 
E.& Z.1 2101, Ryne 
Has. Sandy places in mountains near the cataract of Tulbagh, Sept-Oct, (Herb...) 
. Sd. 
Nw 
Root’ annual. Stem dichotomous, branched from the base, terete, papillose. 9.) 
Leaves 1-2 inches , terminal lobe the minutely as dunele in 
the forks of the branches, $-1 inch long. 5-cleft, 
ate. Styles 5. 
§ G1. CORDIFOLIA, DC. (Platyphylla, Haw.) Stem suffruticose, 
branches herbaceous, prostrate. Leaves petiolate, flat, ot 
