Icosandiia Pentag. Mesembryanthemum. 
Tf AxirLAnRrA. Floribus axillaribus solitariis 
rul'icundis. 
M. (great Perfoliáte) foliis valde connatis plau- 
cis acuminatis punctatis apice subtus triacan- 
this. 
- (triacanthum) foliis glaucis subtus triacan- 
this.— M. per fuliatum. Mill. dict. ed. 8. 
n0. 19.— Nol'is xs musc. mat. p. 92.— Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2. v. 3. p. 247. — M. uncinatum, B. 
Wild. sp. pl. - 1030.— M. uncinatum,' Q. 
— foliis subtus triacanthis. — Plant. grass. 
p. 54.—M. fecu foliis major.bus tria- 
ginis Dill seem t. uh 240.— Ficoides 
africana frutesce s perfoliata, D iius E 
lari glauco Pinctats zem lignoso candido, 
tenut..— Bradl. CpctS. t. nec 96, 
que mihi alm, » incognita est, ut olim 
Cel. Dillenio. 
Bs. Flores pauci parvuli, petalis angustissimis 
rubicundis. à 
£. (monacanthum) wajus, folis preglaucis, 
subtus unidentatis. — [Noois in misc. nat. p.92. 
— Ficoides africana frutescens, perfotiuta, .fo- 
lio triangulari, glauco, punctato, cortice a 
xw etndido, tena. — Bradl. succ. 8. p, B. 
t. 96. firura dextra. 
Qns. Bradlev gives the same name (from Boer- 
haave's Ind. alt. 290. no. 16.) to this as to a, 
but still. describes them as distinct species ; 
which, if his figure is trne, most really be 
the case : for it appears three times the size 
of the other, more glaucous, and far less 
tootbed. — But, alibough one species (M. gra- 
niforme) is adm itted above, on thc sole au- 
thority of this Pocón author, I ain not in- 
n 
[-) 
perfolia- 
tum. 
161. 
