Icosandria. Pentag.. Mesembryanthemum. 
M. (Bull $-horn) foliis bifariis oblique cruciatis 
-semiterctibus obtusis crassissimis lutescente- 
viridibus incurvatis: caudice basi ramoso se- 
mi i. 
HazrrAT C. B.S. G.H. 5h. 
FronET Sept.—Nov. 
INTROD. circa 1795. 
Ons. Facies M. cruciati, atlongé majus. folia 
minus cruciata, pallidiora, et eerto situ quasi 
pallido-maeulata, szepe subdipgitiformia, et 
fere maepitudine digiti, at supra magis pla- 
lu:eus sessilis. Calya: veré bi fidus ! laciniis 
Anzequaliter em- 
branis plus minusve-extstis," | S/j yli octo fa- 
mentacei. — Ceetera ut in affinibus. 
Zommunicavit amicus Dom. Howard. 
M. (Cruciate- tongue) foliis lineari- linguzformi- 
, bus P P ARM ER mollissimis cruciatis, caule 
-senecto trientali — M. cruciatum. — Nobis in 
"misc. nat. p. 35.— Hort. kew. ed. 9. v. 3. 
: * 220. : 
BanrraT C. B: S. - G. H. 5. 
ITROD. 1792. 
Os. E rconinK to the second edition of the 
s Kewensis, this species was introduced 
"i "nto. acte English gardeus i in 1792. But as it 
has. been: a very old inhabitant of Cities 
Phys Garden, | conceive its introduction 
mus have been .müch earlier: and as it i$ 
described by Boerhaave, it was probably sent 
by bim to Miller above half a century since, 
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