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MESEMBRYANTHEMUM elongatum. ¢. 
Dwarf tuberous Fig-Marygold. 
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ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Ficorprm. Jussiew gen. 315. Div. II. Germen inferum. 
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM. Supra vol. 8. fol. 260. 
Div. IV. Capitata. Foliis dense alternéque imbricato-capitatis longissimis, 
impunctatis; caudice pre foliorum pondere decumbente, petalis angustis- 
simis deorsim plus minus ciliatis; stylis numerosis, germinibus depressis. 
Haworth MSS. : . 
M. elongatum, foliis subspithameis obtusé triquetris semiteretibusve, canali- 
culatis, glauciusculis, radice tuberosa carnosd. Haworth MSS. 
Mesembryanthemum elongatum. Haworth mesembr. 236. HEjusd. misc. nat. 
40. et synops. pl. suce. 228. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 228. 
(«) corolla 5-unciali, odore hircino, petalis subcapillaceis pube long’ flexuos4 
ciliatis. Haw. MSS. 
(8) corolla 4-unciali, odore subhircino, petalis exterioribus deorsim pilis 
rectis brevibus paucissimis nudo oculo vix manifestis ciliatis. Haw. MSS- 
Radix deformis, crassa, sublobata, magnitudine fere ovi anatini: (é sicco 
a var.«. in tabulé. delineata). Caudex simplicissimus, debilis, flexuosus, 
erecto-procumbens, simul cum pedunculo terminali dodrantalis v. ultra, viridi- 
lutescens, deorstm foliorum vestigtis subarticulato-circinatus. Folia termi- 
nalia, ante florescentiam in fasciculum laxius congregata, dodrantalia, sepinrs 
semiteretia, supra plis minus canaliculato-concava, supertora sensim mi- 
nora semipedalia aliquantwmque distantiora: omnia erecto-patentia, de- 
Sflexo-emarcescentia, neque decidua. Pedunculus terminalis, teres equa- 
bilis, debilis, 4-uncialis, purpurascens, bast bracteis 3 foliiformibus ver- 
ticillato-stipatus. Cal. subhemisphericus segmentis 5 subequalibus, semi- 
teretibus, subuncialibus, deorsim latescentibus, 2 simplicibus, 2 basi mem- 
brané diaphané utrinque auctis, quinto ailtero tantim latere membra- 
noso. Pet. lutea, nitidissima, numerosissima, multiserialia, calycem 
longé superantia, sudo caelo post meridiem expandentia, lineart-acumi- 
nata, interiora gradatim decrescentia subconniventia, intima forma fere 
filamentorum @ quibus pauca antheré incompleta terminata. Stamina vera 
numerosissima, incurvo-conniventia, filamentis tenuissimis, antheris exiguis, 
polline stramineo-pallido. Styli duodenis plures, saturate flavescentes tor- 
tuoso-congesti. Germen supra planum, pellucido-virescens, radiato-striatu- 
lum (radit loculos capsule Waid denotantes). Haworth MSS. (phraseologia 
aliquantuldm mutata). 
We have to thank Mr. Haworth for the above descrip- 
tion of this rare plant, which he considers a variety of 
elongatum, a species seldom known to blossom with us. 
The sample was communicated to him from Kew Gar- 
dens, where it had been raised in 1819, from seed from 
the Cape of Good Hope. It flowered this summer, and bids 
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