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Original Articles. 
ON AN UNDESCRIBED SPECIES OF 
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM FROM THE SOUTH OF PORTUGAL. 
By tae tate Frrepricn Wenwirscn, M.D., F.L.S. 
(Tas. 136.) 
flora of Algarvia. Dr. Welwitsch had been struck with some 
however, here printed, with this explanatory note, is complete as it 
stands.— id. Journ. Bot. ] 
Neither was it amo e numerous species of Cape Mesembryanthe- 
mums which I had formerly had under cultivation when superintendent 
of the botanical gardens at Lisbon. On a careful comparison of the 
Specimens collected with the species describ Candolle’s 
ee Prodr omu ” o* 
not be identified with any. I therefore felt myself justified in con- 
hd . . . * to Al 
the year 1851 I distributed specimens to several public herbaria 
(British Museum, Kew, Jardin des Plantes), and to a few private 
* The plant is alluded to in a short note by Dr. Welwitsch, printed in the 
Regensburg ‘‘ Flora” for 1849, p. 628, but no name is there given to it.—[ Ed. 
Journ, Bot.] 
N.s. vot. 2. [ocroser, 1873.] ag 
