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inembranous margins. Corolla probably about 5 lines in diameter, with petals about 
2 lines long. Stamens numerous, stigmas 5, erect, 1 line long, stout at the base, tapering 
to an awn-like point. 
Drége’s specimen was collected in the Nieuweveld, between Rhenoster Kop and Ganze 
Fontein, in the Beaufort West Division. The above description, however, is made entirely 
from Thunberg’s specimen. 
Sheet 3 contains two specimens of a very distinct spiny species that 1 cannot match 
with any specimen at Kew, but it is too imperfect to describe. 
Sheet 7 contains a specimen of a species allied to the true M. spinoswm, Linn., but 
is apparently distinct. Masson also collected it ; his specimens are at the British Museum. 
In Herbaria and books several species are included under the name M. spinosum. 
M. splendens, Thunb., ` FI. Cap. p. 414. 
One specimen from Upsala Botanic Garden of M. splendens, Linn. 
M. stipulaceum, Thun., ` Fl. Cap..” p. 422. 
One sheet so named, containing a specimen from Upsala Botanic Garden, which is 
M. faleatum, Linn., and not at all like M. stipulacewm, Linn. 
M. subincanum, Haw., in “ Phil. Mag.,” Vol. LXIV. p. 427 (1824). 
Two sheets thus named by Sonder, and apparently correctly. The specimens on 
one sheet match those of Zevher No. 2604. 
M. tenuifolium, Thunb., ` Fl. Cap., p. 421. 
Four sheets, marked 1, 2, 3, and 4 (but the 4 is written very like a 2). No indication 
of locality is given, 
Sheet 1 contains two specimens of a new species allied to M. gracile, Haw., but is 
more slender. and is identical with Rogers No. 16826 (from near Clanwilliam), and Stephens 
No. 5170 (from Boontjes River). 
Sheet 2 contains a specimen of M. polyanthon, Haw.. ps SYNOp..” p. 270 (1812), of 
which M. glomeratum, Salm Dyck. ` Mesemb.,” § 48, fig. 1 (not of Linnaeus) is a synonym. 
It is quite distinct from the plant wrongly figured by Salm Dyck as being M. polyanthon, 
Salm Dyck’s plant being M. vrolacenm, D. ©. 
Sheet 3 contains a specimen of M. productum, Haw. 
Sheet 4 contains two species. The right-hand specimen is M. productum, Haw., 
in ` Phil. Mag.,” Vol. LXIV, p. 425 (1824). The left-hand specimen may possibly be a 
weak branch of M. tennifolium, Linn., but is not determinable with any certainty. 
M. testiculare, Thunb., ` Fl. Cap..” p. 412. 
One sheet. containing two specimens in fruit of M. testiculare, Ait., `` Hort. Kew.,” 
ed. 1, Vol. Il, p. 181 (1789) : Thunb. in ` Nov. Act. Acad, Leop.-Car. Ephem.,” Vol. VII, 
Append., p. 6 (1791). 
Collected in the Karroo between Olifants River and the Bokkeveld Mountains. 
M. tetragonum, 'Thunb., ~ Fl. Cap.,” p. 426. 
One specimen collected at Hantam, the type of M. tetragonum, Thunb.. ~ Prodr.,” 
p. 91 (1800). Thunberg’s specimen is the same as Zeyher No. 702 and Pearson Nos. 3066, 
3391, and 3688, which have incorrectly been distributed under the name of M. defoliatum, 
Haw. That species. however, differs in habit, has less connate leaves and shorter pedicels. 
Possibly a plant collected by Pearson at Plaatklip, Namaqualand, and distributed under 
the same name without a number, mav be the true M. defoliatum, Haw. (M. clavatum, 
Jacg., not of Haw.). 
Thunberg describes the stems of M. tetragouum as “* subtetragonous,” bat his specimen . 
has terete stems with a slight compression at the nodes, where alone they can be called 
subtetragonous, and they are in no way different from the stems of the specimens of Zeyher 
and Pearson. . 
