236 Jcosandria. Pentag.:. Mesembryanthemum. 
rious, in different, and distant years j it is at 
ledst a presumptive proof, that they.are original 
and distinct ones. But itis nevertheless a 
fact, which must not be kept back, that not 
.. balf the seedlings of this vast Genus which 
— are raised from Cape seeds prove to belong to 
species. 
quainted with half the species in existence ; 
or, those which do exist vary in a manner 
- we have no example of in other genera 
When the great botanic traveller Masson (who 
traversed the Cape countries for twenty years) 
was asked whether he had sent all the Mesem- 
— to England, .his emphatic answer 
** No; nor half of them- 
sdb M; iGHaceiemp foliis siltierih Lf tri- 
cens. uetris glaucescentibus : caulibus dec umben- 
12. ti-prostratis ; floribus solitariis ecsitiba es stylis 
* tem. 
HanBrraT in c Hollandia: G. H. 5. 
FrongT Jul. A. M 
"INTROD. circa 1804. 
Comminicavit Reverend. Dom. Kiby, cum 
ces 
A scquente vix differt nisi in petalis pal- 
 Rdtóribus; ; calyce quinquefido fere sessili abs- 
que pelunculo alato ; ; Roribis et foliis paulo 
Rilenutue glaucioribus : caulibusque 
us. 
keine E | ) foliis subequilaerdier | trque- 
73. Vie recentibus caulibus. decumbenti- pro- 
* Neu Ra die ": pe rei. solitariis ala- 
in Nova. » landi. | | Re 
oem f. Fia $c. E Hen 
