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MESEMBRYANTHEMUM tigrinum. 
Tiger-chap Fig-Marygold. 
ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Ficorpem. Jussieu gen. 315. Div. IT. Germen inferum.. 
MLESEMBRYANTHEMUM. | Cal. superus 5-fidus persistens. . Pet. 
numerosa serie multiplici, linearia basi levitér connata. Styli 5, rariis 4 
aut 10. Caps. carnosa umbilicata umbilico radiis notato, multilocularis 
loculis numero stylorum, Suffrutices aut herbe; folia opposita aut rarits 
alterna, incrassata, forma plurimim varia; flores solitarii, azillares aut extra 
azillares aut sepiis terminales; fructus interdim ficiformis. Juss. 1. c. 317. 
Div, II. Subacaulia, caulibus nullis vel brevissimis, radice perenni. Voort. 
4 Kew. ed. 2. 3. 213. . 
M. tigrinum acaule, foliis glaucescentibus albo-maculatis rarids tubercu- 
latis: marginibus profundé ciliatis. Haworth misc. nat. 31. = 
Mesembryanthemum tigrinum. Haworth mesemb. 164. Ejusd. succ. 216. 
Willd. sp. pl. 2.1029. Thompson’s bot. displ. 9, Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 
218. 
Plantula acaulis, pinguissima, perennis. Folia radicalia, suboctona?, 
decussato-congesta, patentia, cymbiformi-ovata, glauca, pruinosa, maculis 
parvis albis irregularibus picta, subuncialia, latitudine % uncie, crassitudine 
Jere § unciea, subliis convexa, superne versus prore cymbuli ad instar attenu- 
ata, supra plana, summis lateribus externé sub dentibus a sulcis vel canaliculis 
obsoletioribus transverse rugata, interno margine dentato-ciliata dentibus albis 
cartilagineis setaceo-aristatis, aristis tenuitate feré fili serici ad lentem villosis, 
uno versit introrsim inclinantibus. Flos centralis, sessilis, magnus, luteus, 
croceo-emarcescens, non nisi post meridiem expandens. 
Of the 211 species of this genus enumerated by Mr. Ha- 
worth, all are indigenous of the Cape of Good Hope, except 
about five or six. Only one species has a station in Europe, 
and that. at an extreme part, viz. the shores of Naples. Two 
or three belong to the Levant, one of which is the well- 
known Ice-Plant, found near Athens. Not a single Ame- 
rican species has been observed. The name of Fig-Mary- 
gold, by which these plants are known in our gardens, has 
been suggested by a twofold resemblance, on one hand by 
that of the fruit to the form of a fig, and on the other by 
that of the flower to the common Marygold, like which it 
shuts itself up in cloudy weather: The genus forms the 
principal group in the gardener’s tribe of succulent plants. 
The present diminutive species was intraduced in 1790 
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