144 lcosandria. Pentagynia, Mesembryanthemum. 
€ M. (slender, early, bracteate) foliis glaucescenti- 
: us gracilibus scabriculis, bracteis ovato-acutis 
caen fere omplectentibus ramis gracillimis 
n. iliis Nob. in Syn. succ. 290, ct Horto- 
um. 
a. foin saturate rubicundis. 
B gracilius (pale flat-bracted mp ) 
nium affinium floribus pallidioribus, roseisve: 
foliolis ealyeinis Ese aut pracompressis an- 
gustioribus. 
Propria species - —I calyces bracteasque 
magis compre 
Oss. As the M. itellafum of other authors (well 
figured by Decandolle in Plant. grass. 29.) does 
not belong even to the present section of the 
Genus ; I have relinquished that name (a garden 
one merely when I adopted it) for the present 
species, and applied to it that of gracile, which 
is peculiarly applicable. 
redia- — M. (large-flowered, bracteate) foliis glaucescenti- 
tum. us; bracteis late ovatis, pedunculis superne am- 
172. plectentibus ; ; ramulis subconfertis, eortice ca- 
* EU Nob. in Syn. succ. 289.— Dill. elt. 
f. 24 
Oss. Corolla major quam in affinibus toto satu- 
rate rubicunda, |. Rami confertiores. 
um. céscentibus exquilateri-tri quetris scaberrimis, 
173. |. bracteis ovato-acutis pedunculos superne am- 
* Plesistübon. Nob. in Syn. succ. 289, &c. 
Oss. Ramuli maxime compressi, floribus medio- 
cribus saturatissime rubicundis. 
