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LXXIV. Decas tertia novarum Plantarum Succulentarum; 

 Aittore A. H. Ha worth, Soc. Linn. Lo?id. — Soc. Horticult. 

 Loud. — necnon Soc. C<vsar. Nat. Curios. Moscoviensis Socio, 

 Sec. Sfc. 



To the Editors of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal. 

 Gentlemen, 

 A THIRD Decade of New Succulent Plants, I have here- 

 ■*"*- under the satisfaction of forwarding to you, which, it is 

 hoped, will find an early admission into your valuable Maga- 

 zine. This Decade is composed of minute descriptions of un- 

 recorded species of the genus Mesembryanthemum ; forming, 

 indeed, a splendid addition to that extensive and interesting 

 group — all pretty recently discovered in the Cape countries 

 of Southern Africa, by the enterprising zeal of Mr. Bowie ; 

 and all sent safe to the Royal Gardens of Kew, through his 

 skilful management in the packing and transmittal of succu- 

 lent seeds and roots. 



In those well-conducted gardens, these fine plants seem 

 really to be quite at home; and have (except three) already 

 produced their fructifications ; and many of them, as Mr. Bowie 

 himself assured me while we were examining them, have al- 

 most exactly the face or appearance which they usually as- 

 sume in their own remote and native land. 



The descriptions, therefore, which here follow, ought at 

 least to be tolerably good ; although the writer, ever diffidently 

 fearful of his own powers, barely hopes that they may be suf- 

 ficient to enter upon the records of the science which he loves, 

 and only there remain, till others shall appear from abler 

 hands. I remain, gentlemen, 



Your most obedient servant, 

 Queen's Elm, Chelsea, Nov. 19, 1824. A. H. Haworth. 



Classis et Ordo. Icosandria Pentagynia. 

 Genus, Mesembryanthemum. 

 Sectio, Carinantia. 

 Acaulia : foliis dense decussatis erecto-incurvis acute 

 triquetria carinatis acinacifonnibusve, subtuberculatim 

 magnipunctatis : scapis ramosis conspicuis: corollis 

 luteis. 



Species, 

 scapiger. M. (The great scaped), foliis carinato-triquetris vi- 

 1. ridibus margine punctisque asperiusculis : scapavalido 

 Bubpaniculato ancipiti. 



Floret Auo. Sept. G. II. V-. 



Descriptio. 



