1732 



* MESEMBRYANTHEMUM rubroc'inctum. 



Red-edged Fig Marigold. 



ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 



Nat. Old. FicoiDE^. {Introduction to the Natural System of Botany, 

 p. 160.) 



MESEMBRYANTHEMUM. Supra, vol. 3,fol. 260. 



§ 30. CONFERTA. 



Caules fruticosi, ramis confertis ascendentlbus. Folia opposita, subconnata 

 conferta triquetra acuta, angulis Isevibus. Flores pedunculati solitarii aut ternati 

 speciosi sole expansi rubicund! aut pallida rosei. De C. prodr. v. 3. 436. 



M, rubrocinctum ; caulibus humilibus ascendentibus ramosissimis, floriferis 

 unifloris, foliis Isete viridibus rubrocinctis acinaciformibus lasvibus, bracteis 

 connatis, floribus maximis. 



M. rubrocinctum. Haworth. 



A species which may perhaps be considered the finest of 

 this very extensive genus. It is nearly related to W. spec- 

 tabile, from which it differs in its larger flowers and leaves, 

 and in its connate bracts. 



It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and is said to 

 have been described by the late Mr. Haworth in some of his 

 papers, but we have not been so fortunate as to light upon 

 the place. 



For our specimen we are indebted to the Hon. W. F. 

 Strangways, in whose garden in Dorsetshire it blows in the 

 greatest profusion upon an old wall. 



Independently of its extraordinary beauty, this has the 

 great merit of being able to resist as much cold as a Pelar- 



* From pt(rt]pftpia noontide, and av^iw to flower ; in allusion to the time of 

 the day at which its blossoms usually expand. 



