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FICOIDE^. I. MESEMBRYANTHEMUM. 



mucrone, full of scattered, rather elevated whitish dots. If. 

 D. G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers yellow. 

 White-marked Fig-marigold. Fl. Sept. Clt. 1824. PL ft. 



25 M. ALBIPUNCTA'TUM (Haw. 1. c.) leaves semi-terete, beset 

 with white tubercular dots. If.. D. G. Native of the Cape of 

 Good Hope. Flowers yellow. Very like M. albinotum, but 

 the leaves are twice or thrice smaller, and more numerous. 

 There is also a larger variety of this species mentioned by 

 Haworth. 



White-dotted Fig-marigold. Fl. Sept. Clt. 1824. PI. -J ft. 



6. Ringentia (from ringens, gaping; appearance of the two 

 upper leaves of the plants). Ham. syn. p. 216. phll. mag. 64. 

 p. 110. Spreng. syst. p. 515. D. C. prod. 3. p. 419. Ringentia 

 ciliata, Salm-Dyck. Ringentia et Scapigera, Ham. rev. p. 87, 

 88. Plants stemless. Leaves triquetrous, gradually thickening 

 to the top or gibbous, usually ciliately toothed, without papulce. 

 Flowers yellow, opening after meridian. Calyx 4,-5 -cleft. Stig- 

 mas 4-5. 



26 M. MUSTELLI'NUM (Salm-Dyck and Haw. suppl. p. 87. 

 rev. p. 89.) plant almost stemless, green, full of pellucid dots ; 

 leaves triquetrous, gradually thickening towards the apex, cili- 

 ately toothed, pustulately gibbous on the inside at the base ; 

 flowers on short pedicels ; calyx 4-cleft. I/. . D. G. Native of 

 the Cape of Good Hope. Salm-Dyck, obs. 1820. p. 9. Flowers 

 yellow, expanding in the evening, sweet-scented. 



Weasel-chop Fig-marigold. Clt. 1820. PI. i foot. 



27 M. ERMININUM (Haw. in phil. mag. Aug. 1826. p. 126.) 

 plant almost stemless, glaucous ; leaves wrinkled from large 

 dots ; margins with short teeth at the apex. If. . D. G. Native 

 of the Cape of Good Hope. Herb densely tufted. Flowers 

 solitary, terminal, yellow, opening in the evening. Nearest 

 allied to M. murinum. 



Far. ft, magus (Haw. 1. c.) corolla yellow, red at the apex. 

 Ermine-chop Fig-marigold. Fl. May, Jul. Clt. 1824. Pl.|ft. 



28 M. AGNINUM (Haw. in phil. mag. Aug. 1826. p. 126.) 

 plant almost stemless, canescent, wrinkled from dots ; leaves 

 semi-terete, serrulated from elevated dots, and hence somewhat 

 toothed, pustulate on the inside at the base. I/ . D. G. Native 

 of the Cape of Good Hope. Leaves with a large white pustule 

 on the inside at the base. Flowers sessile, solitary, central, ex- 

 panding in the evening. 



Far. ft ; plant a little smaller ; teeth of leaves more obscure. 



Far. y ; leaves more erect, entire. 



7,am6-chop Fig-marigold. Fl. May, June. Clt. 1824. Pl.|ft. 



29 M. MURINUM (Haw. obs. p. 165. misc. p. SO. syn. 217. 

 rev. 90. phil. mag. 64. p. 111.) plant almost stemless, glaucous; 

 leaves ciliately denticulated, 3 rows on each side, and full of 

 tubercular dots, with the margins and keel ciliately denticulated 

 at the apex ; flower sessile. I/. D. G. Native of the Cape of 

 Good Hope. Flowers small, yellow. Styles 5, very short, erect, 

 green, a little thickened towards the apex. 



Mouse-chop Fig-marigold. Fl. Sept. Clt. 1790. PL | ft. 



30 M. FELINUM (Haw. obs. p. 161. misc. p. 31. syn. p. 216. 

 rev. p. 89.) plant stemless, glaucescent ; leaves ciliated with long 

 teeth, obsoletely dotted, cartilaginously keeled at the apex, 

 full of pellucid dots when examined by the light ; flowers sessile. 

 It . D. G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. D. C. pi. grass. 

 t. 158. Dill. hort. elth. f. 220. M. ringens ft, Lin. spec. p. 

 698. Flowers yellow, expanding after meridian. Styles 5, fili- 

 form, equal in length to the stamens. 



Cai-chop Fig-marigold. Fl. Aug. Nov. Clt. 1730. PI. ft. 



31 M. LUPINUM (Haw. in phil. mag. 64. p. 111.) plant stem- 

 less ; leaves glaucescent, marginal ciliae very long, and very 

 numerous. I/ . D. G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 

 Very like M.fellnum, but differs according to Salm-Dyck in the 



leaves being narrower, more attenuated, and in the ciliae being 

 longer and more numerous, but probably it is only a mere 

 variety of it. 



Wolf-chop Fig-marigold. PI. foot. 



32 M. TIOR'INUM (Haw. obs. p. 164. misc. p. 21. syn. 216. 

 rev. p. 89.) plant stemless, greenish ; leaves stem-clasping, ovate- 

 cordate, expanded, marbled with white, flat above, ciliated with 

 long hairs, cartilaginously keeled at the apex ; flowers sessile. Tf. . 

 D. G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Ker. bot. reg. t. 

 280. Flowers yellow, expanding after meridian, large, central. 

 Styles 4, filiform, equal in length to the stamens. 



Tiger-chop Fig-marigold. Fl. Sept. Nov. Clt. 1790. PI. 

 i foot. 



33 M. CANINUM (Haw. obs. p. 159. syn. 217. rev. p. 87.) 

 plant almost stemless ; leaves glaucous, carinately triquetrous, 

 rather club-shaped, incurved towards the apex, and somewhat 

 toothed, as well as the bracteas ; peduncles longer than the leaves. 

 %. D. G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. D. C. pi. 

 grass, t. 95. Dill. elth. f. 231. Bradl. succ. t. 17. M. rin- 

 gens a, Lin. spec. 698. Flowers of a yellowish orange-colour, 

 opening after meridian. 



Z)og-chop Fig-marigold. Fl. Aug. Oct. Clt. 1717. PI. | ft. 



34 M. VULPINUM (Haw. syn. p. 417. rev. p. 88.) plant almost 

 stemless ; leaves glaucous, carinately triquetrous, rather club- 

 shaped, with large teeth at the apex or entire ; old leaves hori- 

 zontal ; bracteas entire ; peduncles longer than the leaves. If. , 

 D. G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. M. caninum ft, 

 Haw. misc. p. 32. Very like M. caninum, but taller, and the 

 leaves are longer and greener, with fewer teeth. It is, however, 

 perhaps only a variety of it. Flowers yellow. 



jRw-chop Fig-marigold. Fl. May, Oct. Clt. 1795. PI. J ft. 



35 M. HY'BRIDUM (Haw. syn. 218. rev. p. 88.) plant stemless, 

 smooth, white ; leaves semi-terete, entire, carinately triquetrous 

 above, and a little thickened, ending in a recurved mucrone 

 each. If. D. G. Raised in the gardens from the seeds of M. 

 dlbidum, impregnated by the pollen of M. caninum. 



Hybrid Fig-marigold. Fl. May, Oct. PI. ^ foot. 



36 M. MUSCULINUM (Haw. in phil. mag. nov. 1826. p. 328.) 

 margins and keel of leaves usually bearing but one tooth each ; 

 branches prostrate, half afoot long. If . D. G. Native of the 

 Cape of Good Hope. Flowers yellow, opening in the morning, 

 scentless. This plant is very like M. murinum, but differs in the 

 prostrate branches, and in the teeth of the leaves being fewer. 

 It comes perhaps nearest in habit to M. ermimnum, but differs 

 in the petals being a line broad, not capillaceous. 



Little-mouse-c\w]> Fig-marigold. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1824. 

 PI. prostrate. 



7. Rostrata (from rostrum, a beak). Haw. syn. p. 211. Salm- 

 Dyck, obs. bot. 1820. p. 20. Plants stemless or nearly so. 

 Leaves 4-6, erectish, connate, semi-terete, attenuated, rather 

 keeled, and somewhat denticulated at the apex. Floners solitary, 

 pedunculate, yellow. Calyx 4-8-cleft. Stigmas 8-12. 



37 M. A'LBIDUM (Lin. spec. p. 699.) plant stemless, smooth, 

 whitish ; leaves thick, subulate, triquetrous, obtuse, with an 

 acumen, but semi-terete at the base : all quite entire. If. . D. G. 

 Native of the Cape of Good Hope Dill. hort. elth. f. 232. 

 Bradl. succ. t. 43. Sims, bot. mag. t. 1824. Haw. rev. p. 88. 

 Flowers large, yellow, opening early in the morning, but after- 

 wards remaining expanded through the whole day, sweet- 

 scented. Stigmas 11. This plant is intermediate between the 

 section Ringentia and Rostrata. 



White Fig-marigold. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1714. PI. | foot. 



38 M. DENTICULA V TUM (Haw. obs. 149. misc. 30. syn. p. 215. 

 rev. 91.) plant stemless; leaves very glaucous, subulately tri- 

 quetrous, compressed, dilately keeled at the apex ; keel usually 



