324 LV. FICOIDEX. [ Mesembryanthemum. 
Leaves — flat 
Flowers rather small, sessile or shortly pedicellate, terminal or 
xri white or pink. Leaves undulate, covered with 
sparent vesicles . 9. M. crystallinum. ` ` 
Flowers rather SC yellow, on n long pedicels. Leaves lanceo- | 
2.0. s. s. 4 M. pomeridiamm. — 
late or spathulate 
1. M. zquilaterale, Haw.; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 146. Perennial, 
with robust prostrate stems, extending sometimes to a considerable 
ER short ascending flowering besnches, or sometimes more ascending from — 
Leaves opposite, stem-clasping, thickly feele equal- 
3 
sided or “laterally compressed, attaining 2 in. 
red, pedicellate or nearly. sessile within the last small pair of es Calyx- 
t rbinate, } in. long or rather more; lobes unequal, the 2 larger ones 
often as long as the tube, with prominent angles decurrent on the calyx 
pedicel, or the calyx quite terete. Petals spreading to about 1} in. 
Styles and ovary-cells varying from 6 to 10. Fruit ger 
size of a good gooseberry.—M. aquilaterale, M. glaucescens, ns, M. Rossi 
M. nigrescens, Haw.; DC. Prod. iii. 429; Salm-Dyck, Mono: § 19.61, 
; M. precoz, F. Muell. in Linnea, xxv. SCH 
ege Plains of the E — q 
qute. Mk the gator in vari aces, P. pt r, Robertson. , 1 
undant on the Se SÉ ascending the Sort as far as their waters — 
are init, ca cae P Pig's fus," J. D. Hooker. : 
S. alia. Murray river, Holdfast Bay, Salt plains on the W. side of Flint — 
e F. P. Mueller. 1 
. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, Oldfield ; Marché river, Oldfield. 
SS same pan n is also found on the coasts of Chile and DUE and searedy dif te 1 
fers from the S. African M. acinaciforme, Linn., except in the | so thick and be ` 
flowers smaller a 
. 187. Perennial, - 
ery sho, — 
or reduced to clusters of leaves surrounding the Pedals Leav Gent 
site, triquetrous or somewhat flattened and oblong, obtuse or rarely almo, ` 
te, $ to $ in. long. Flowers Bor solitary | in the i gege? 
leaves, or terminating very short lea y branches, the de fo ras 
shorter than the leaves to twice Tni (e . Calyx Rm turbinate, Jonger 1 
lines long; lobes unequal, the 2 larger ones s or rarely m 
han the tube, and rar y forming slightly prominent lines decurrent 0t 
Petals spreading to about 1 in. diameter. Style 1 ovary-cells Fl Tas — 
. Prod. iii. 428; Salm Dyck Monogr. § 18. f. : Monogt. 1 
i 147; M. clavellatum, Haw.; DC. Prod. iii. 438; Salm-Dyck, referred H ` 
§ 18. f 1; M. demissum, Willd. Enum. Suppl. 36 (name only, Te 
M. australe in Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. ii. 51). wegl 
` N. S. Wales. Darling river, Ei — Expedition (a bad doubtful pem 
Victoria. Phillips island, F. Mue J.D. Hooke 
ia. Woolnorth, Cireular [ue and banks of the Tamar, Guan, ***7 
er Ai Island, y Mueller 
ustralia. Seacoast, F. Mueller ; Murray river, Blandowskt. EZ wäi 
wea Australia. Bald Island, Oldfield, Me SCH Senn River, Drum Drumm 
n. 59 (leaves A to A1 in. and pedicels 1 to 2 in. 
