Jcosandria. Pentagynia. Mesembryauthemum. 
M. scabrum. — Linn. sp. pl. 692. — Dill. elth. 
. 251. : ; 
a pallidum ; floribus pallidioribus s. pallide roseis. 
B purpureum ; floribus saturaté purpureo-rubicun- 
dis pulchris 
M. AU c rough) foliis subpriquetcis glau- 
ve ibus verrucoso-praescabris :- foliolis caly- 
vato-acuminatis: petalis apice sübbiden- 
; iiie vartabiitibus. Nob. in Syn. succ. 268. 
'M. (reflex-flowered) foliis subtriquetris. preglau- 
139 
versico- 
lor. 
57. 
— 
* 
retro- 
cis scabris, laciniis calycinis petalisque rubieun- Jlexum. 
dis distantiusculis retroflexis : staminibus col- 
lectis, cortice dealbato. Nob; in Syn. : succ. 269. 
F8, 
M. (iüibrieste:leaved) "— erectum : ligno- imLi- 
sum : foliis linearibus obsolete triquetris glabri- cazs. 
E 
usculis glauco-albis, i in summis ramorum senec- 
x orum imbricatim confertis. Nob. in Suppl. pl. 
c. 94. 
Oxs. "This description was made from a plant in 
Chelseà Garden in the winter of 1818, which 
afterwards perished ; cw until recently, the au- 
thor has not been able to find another of the 
same kind, or to distinguish it from its nearest 
affinities. At length, however, he has found in 
: "Chelsea € den, what is, in all probability, the 
very same in a young state, and its nearest affi- 
iT in flower and habit appears to ve M. re- 
iroflexum. 
Me (smooth deflexing) foliis — n" du 
i deorsum a caulibus su 
, petalis s muneris valde imbri- 
éthtibus; scudo supeudiovi 
"160, 
