lcosandria. Pentag. Mesembryanthemum. 231 
-species appears to differ from M. acutum in no- 
thing butin being three.or four times. smaller, 
and its name was given in allusion thereto. A 
placed in a Hothouse along with £M. acut 
the latter remains without branches; while 
the present article acquires short im 
ones, 30 extremely according with the present 
section, that its admittance into it can no 
longer be denied, notwithstanding its rubi- 
- eund flower, and now less applicable specific. 
name. Prior to the publication. of the Mis- 
cellanea, it even went currently, in our best 
rdeas, by the name of M. loreum, which 
still it is very disce from. Iis calyx, mode 
of flowering, and nine styles, are all i in con- 
- $onance also with this section. 
M. (Dubious Horn-leav'd) foliis iabonolus is dubium. 
63 
longiusculis e uei MATER adscen- 
dentibus viridibus s, caulibus terettusculis - * 
teo-rubris. Mni in misc. nat. p. 39.— 
kew. ed. 9 . p. 222.— Ficoides vem 
epit folio Peine crasso, ipi iei 
tus luteo, extus aurantiaco. —Bradl. 
RAE E p.18. t. 4 
HanarTAT C. B. S. 1 H. M. 
Feu Me —Nov. . 
Curr. 
Oss. Folia. breviora minus conferta, minusque 
miner s equalia quam in ultimis. 
"Eae quinquefidus foliolis inzequalibus. Pe- 
taía speciosa iios eoe mra: extus aurantio- 
motata.  Síyli circiter du 
ig Horn-leav* d) ace sibeonferia tri- rornicu- 
indricis án- latum. 
