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M. edule, Thunb., ` Fl. Cap..” p..426. 
One sheet, containing two ds branches. ‘Thunberg Seaton that this pen 
which is M. edule, Linn., grows near Capetown. Zwartland, and elsewhere. 
M. emarcidum, Thunh.. “ Fl. Cap,” .p. 415. 
Two sheets, marked 1 and 2, stated to have been AE on the Bokkeveld Ed 
elsewhere in the Karroo. 
Sheet 1 contains two species, a branch (which | have marked “A” on the sheet) 
and four pieces (which I have marked ` B”). hr aa 
‘A is the plant described by Thunberg as M. emarcidum, Thunb., in“ Nov. Act. 
Acad. Leop.-Car. Ephem..” Vol. VI. Append., p. 9 (1791); M. anatomiewm, Haw., 
** Mise.,”’ p. 50 (1803). ae 
This specimen appears to me to be the same as Pearson No. 6434. from Khoms Ravine, 
in the Khamiesberg. At the original place of publication, Thunberg states that this species 
has 4 erect stigmas, and grows in the Bokkeveld mountain region, ‘without mention of any 
other locality. There is a good specimen of it at the British Museum, collected by Masson 
when travelling with Thunbe TY. 
PH 16 MM, EU aa, Linn. 
Sheet 2 contains one good specimen of M. expansum, Linn. 
M. emarginatum, Thunb., ` Fl. Cap..” p. 421. 
One specimen from Upsala Botanic Garden, The specimen is a poor one, but probably 
M. emarginatum, Linn. 
M. expansum, Thusb., ` Fl. Cap.,” p. 415. 
Two sheets marked 1 and 2. Sheet 1 contains a very fine flowering specimen from 
Upsala Botanic Garden and sheet 2 a good specimen in fruit. The locality oiven for this 
species is near Dutoits Kloof. Both specimens are 
M. tripolium, Vin. 
M. expansum, 'Thunb., ` Prodr..” p. 88 (1800), not of Linnaeus. 
Thunberg’s specimens agree with those of Bolus No. 7930, from Orange Kloof on 
Table Mountain. 
M. falcatum, Thunb.. ` Fl. Cap.,” p. 422. 
One specimen. No locality is quoted for it. The plant is M. lacerum, Haw., “ Obs.,” 
p. 383 (1795). M. faleatum, Thunb., `` Prodr.,” p. 90 (1800), not of Linnaeus, 
M. fasciculatum, 'Thuub., ` Fl. Cap.” p. 417. 
One specimen, collected near Sandays River, in the Uitenhage Division, 
This species has been wrongly quoted by Sonder in ` FI. Cap.,” Vol. IL, p. 482, as 
a synonym of M. tetragoman. Thunb.. which is an utterly different plant of erect bushy 
habit, whilst J. fascicelatum is prostrate. 
| have been unable to match M. fasciculatwm, Thunb., with any specimen in the Kew 
Herbarium, but it is evidently alhed to M. crassifolium, Linn. , which grows in the region 
of Capetown (Wolley Dod No. 1625), and is probably the eastern representative of that 
species, but seems to root much more freely at the nodes than M. crassifolium does. The 
following is a description of Thunberg’s plant : i 
M. fasciculatum. Thunb., in `` Nov. Act. Acad. Leop.-Car. Ephem.,” Vol. VII. 
Append., p. 1] (1791). | Er 
Stem prostrate, rooting at the nodes, about 14 line thick, with arching internodes — 
11-9 inches long, glabrous, smooth. of a pale CS colour, bearing at the nodes short, 
ereet. leafy-flowering shoots 1—2 inches high. including the flower, each with 4-5 pairs of 
