Icosandria Fei : Bunee- 3 
anilac alu dicata end Mr.John H 1 
now of Elstead in an in 1813 communicated 
to me a dead branch eight inches long, with a 
ripe capsule, and three bracteal leaves several 
ipee beneath the calyx, and each two or three 
ches ong: His letter which accompanied it 
s a new species allied to M. tore: 
| Dow id alifizred like .M. micans. To m 
appears so closely like M. pugioniforme in ever 
respect, in i/s dry state; that but for his letter 
. I should have thought it the same. Tt lives and 
flowers several years, and is yet living. **Its 
flower exactly resembled that of M. pomeri- 
dianum of Bot. Magaz. with the rounded caly- 
cinal leaves, and shining like the pisuk; ^ Mr. 
Howard's In 
HanziraT C. B. S G. H. 5. 
M. (Dwarf — caudice 2-3-unciali; 
foliis triquetris 2-3-uncialibus .pugioniformibus 
viridibus, ramorum loriferum patulis. 
Hasse DB. s. ? ubi legit Dom. Burchell, et 
communicavit. —— G.H. X. 
Oss. Nimis affinis Mesem. 2ioniformi, at minu us 
91 
brevi- 
caule. 
13 
pu 
omni parte, foliis toto viridibus, neque basi pur- 
» purascentibus, ramorum patulis, non adseenden- 
"tibus ut in Mesem, pugioniforme. A semine non 
variat,secundum Dom. Burchell, neque inhabitat 
in iisdem locis cum Mesem. pugioniforme. Inde 
- propria species appareat. 
M. (Diamond fig- marygold) foliis amplissimis 
ovato-acutis subundulatis, alatim decurrenter 
petiolatis, supra erystallino-papulosis ; subtus 
puloso so-crystallinis triplinerviis, nervo prin- 
cipe superne triplicato : radice bienni. 
Mesembr, . crystallinum. |. Liza. sp. pé. 1. 688.— 
crystal- 
linum. 
