MESEJIBE.I ANTHEMUM . 
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** Suffrutescent , perennial. 
ff3. M. CORDIFOLIUM L. fil. 
Evenly and finely papulose ; st. mucli branched prostrate or 
pendulous; 1. opposite fleshy flat cordate stalked; fl. small 
axillary stalked; sep. 4 unequal, 2 larger opposite flat and 
leafy, 2 smaller conical or horn-like ; pet. shorter than sep. 
— Jacq. Ic. Rar. iii. t. 487 ; Sm. Spicil. Bot. t. 6 ; DC. PL Gr. 
t. 102; Haw. Syn. 248, Rev. 159; DC. iii. 449; Spr. ii. 516. — 
Sufir. per. Mad. reg. 1, J. Waste spots and hanging down walls 
in the neighbourhood of Funchal, at Ponta do Sol, Magdalena, 
Calheta, &c., and in the north at Porto de S. Jorge. Apr.- 
Aug., but at most seasons. — Whole pi. quite smooth, of a pecu- 
liar bright fresh gr., shining but scarcely or inconspicuously and 
very minutely frosted. St. thickly cespitose either quite pro- 
strate or hanging down walls in thick close leafy masses 2-3 
feet long, round hard and woody, but gr. L. opposite distinctly 
stalked |-about 1 in. long and broad flat but firm and thick- 
ish or fleshy and brittle, cordate acute a little decurrent into 
the broad flattened petioles which are \ in. long. Fl. rather 
small 4 or 5 lines in diam. very double with many rows of pet., 
bright rose-purple, solitary axillary stalked ; stalks erect sub- 
quadrangular thickened upwards. Sep. 4; 2 larger leaf-like, 
2 alternate shorter horn-like. Pet. numerous crowded imbricate 
in many rows, shorter than any of sep. Stam. about 12 in a 
single row. Styles 5 short. Fr. rather large erect turbinate 
quadrangular half-immersed in the gr. persistent sep. smooth 
4-celled. — Papillce of whole pi. very minute and crowded equal 
round, not oblong prominent or watery. 
ft 4. M. EDULE L. 
Quite smooth and even, not papulose; st. stout creeping 
sparingly branched, the ends ascending, compressed 2-angular ; 
1. opposite connate at the base fleshy sharply triquetrous and 
acuminate, slightly concave above, the edges and more distinctly 
the keel subserrulate ; fl. large terminal stalked ; sep. 5 very un- 
equal horn-like or triquetrous like the 1., pet. shorter only* than 
the outermost sep. — ITaw. Syn. 234, Rev. 119; Spr. ii. 524; 
DC. iii. 428. M. falcatum majus Dill. Ilort. Elth. ii. 284. t. 212. 
f. 272. Ficoides , sen Ficus Aizoides Africana, Sfc., Ficus Ilot- 
tentottorum vulgo Seba Thes. i. t. 19. f. 6. — Sufl'r. per. Mad. reg. 
1,2, ^ ; PS. reg. 1-4, ccc. Mad. at the Mount, the Palheiro, 
Camacha, &c. ; 3 or 4 miles up the Machico valley by the road- 
side, &c. PS. in vast beds along the beach to the* E. of the 
town, and a little below the top of Pico do Castello. Fl. at va- 
rious seasons, properly Sum. ; up the Machico valley, 1500 ft. 
above the sea, early in March ; in PS., at the back of the hot 
sandy beach, not in fl. at the end of May. — Whole pi. smooth 
