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| MESEMBRYANTHEMUM INCLAUDENS 
Unclosing-flowered lig-Marygold. — - 
CLASS ZU. - OR DP FR Iv. 
ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. ‘Twenty Chives. Five Pointals. 
: ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
PrTaLa valde numerosa, linearia, basi cohe- ‘| 
PeTALs very numerous, linear, cohering at 
rentia. | 
the base. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM, foliis triquetris levi- Fic-MaryGorp, with triquetrous smooth deep 
bus perviridibus, carina gibbos4, corollis green leaves, with a gibbous keel, unclos- 
= inclandentibus, petalis interioribus valde ing flowers, and interior petals extremely 
abbreviatis imbricatisque. abbreviated and imbricated. 
Descrirtio. M. mutabili nobis affinis, sed species valde distincta: differt in his, foliis levioribus, et 
longe viridioribus, minusque mucronatis, marginibus sepius plus minusve purpureis: floribus 
speciosis semper apertis ; nec inconspicuis, nocteque clausis ; saturatissime et vivacissime rubicun- 
dis, petalis cuneato-linearibus, latis in hoc genere, apicibus erosis ; interioribus (petalis) maxime 
cS abbreviatis, imbricatisque quasi in stellam. . Calyx subanceps, 5-fidus, membranis rubro punctatis, 
Filamenta recondita, brevissima omnium (vix linearia), alba, basi purpurea. Anthere albide, 
ne circiter longitudinem filamentorum. Styli 5, erecti, pergrossi; virides, altitudine antherarum, 
. Capsulam non vidi. HH.  . eS =e 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
~~ : 1. The empalement, seed-bud, chives and pointals, 
& 2. The same cut perpendicularly, to show the insertion of the chives and pointal, 
Our figure represents a perfectly new and nondescript, and at the same time very ornamental species 
ee of Mesembryanthemum : each flower possesses the valuable property of lasting about ten days in beauty, 
and never closes after being once expanded : a circumstance of exceeding rare occurrence in this very 
extensive genus ; no fewer than 214 distinct species of which we have now a knowledge of *. 
M. inclaudens rises with a branched, shrubby stem, to the height of 10 or 12 inches, and is culti- 
_ Yatéd in the same manner, and propagated with the same facility, that is common and well known in 
“ee this tribe: they are all very hardy green-house plants ; require in winter as much air as possible, if 
frost is but avoided ; strike freely from cuttings ; are great Jovers of hot, sunny and sheltered situa- 
tions, when out for the summer ; and are better not watered over their heads, but at the roots only. 
The present species was raised from Cape seeds last season, in the collection of G. Hibbert, esq. 
where our drawing was made in July. Mr. Ross, Nurseryman at Stoke Newington, has also raised it 
_ from Cape seeds, and flowered it in J uly ; and he likewise very fortunately flowered at the same time 
several fine specimens of M, rostratum ; the fructifications of which have not been produced before in 
_ Europe, that we know of, although the plant has been common in the English gardens ever since the 
ear 1732, and is one of the very few which Dillenius thought proper to figure without flowers, in his 
celebrated Hortus Elthamensis. 
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