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MESEMBRYANTHEMUM maximum. 
Moon-leaved Fig-marygold. 
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ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Ficoiwnm. Jussieu gen. 315. Div. I. Germen inferum. 
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM. Supra vol. 3. fol. 260. 
Div. VIT. Rubicunda, ramis suffrutescentibus glabris, folits ( divisione prima 
catered compresso-triquetris nudis: apicibus rectis, petalis (M. edule, 
M. heteropetalo, ef M. dilatato exceptis ) rubicundis. : 
M. maximum, foliis acinaciformi-lunatis pellucido-punctatis subconnatis, 
caule recto. Willd. enum. 1. 539. 
Mesembryanthemum maximum. Haworth mesemb. 402. n. 182. Hjusd. — 
misc. nat. 66. 2.121. Ejusd. succ. 292. n. 183. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3.— 
933. : , 
Radix lignosa. Caulis lignosus, robustus, striclus, arborem quasi in com- 
pendio mentiens, subregulariter ramosus, & majoribus generis. Rami patentes, 
numer ost, subpyramidate dispositt, robusti, jirmi, juniores ancipites glauco- 
virentes conferte Soliosi, seniores teretiores, lignosi.. Fol. lunulata, v. compres- 
sissimé triquetra, incurvescentia carina acuta ventricosa subcartilagineo-margi- 
natd obtusiusculd, opposita, subamplexicaulia potiis quam connata, versus 
basin plurimim crassiora presertim & parte interiori, majora subbiuncialia, 
latitudine superiore feré % partis uncie, laterali subunciali, superné versis 
sensim in aciem extenuata, glabra, puncticulis minutis semipellucidis irregula- 
_ritér conspersa, pulvisculo albo canescentia. (Ex anglico D. Haworth vers.) 
_ Flores (forte imperfecti, ob frigorem anni tempestatis ) semel tantum vidi, ter- 
_ minales ternali (quinati) parvt. Pedunculi angulati bracteis 2 magnis folit 
Sormibus instructt. Cal. 5-fidus laciniis ineequalibus, 2 exterioribus (ut sepiis 
in ceteris) majoribus. Cor. rubicunda, petalis linearibus, numerosis, Germ, 
5-angulatum. Haworth in misc. nat. ad. loc. cit. 
We are obliged to Mr. William Ross, of the Eden Nur- 
sery at Stoke Newington, for the sample of the, till now 
unfigured, species which has afforded the drawing. It was 
introduced from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Masson in 
1787; and is one of those that are peculiarly shy in pro- 
ducing bloom with us, though marked in the Hortus 
Kewensis as blossoming from March to December. The 
specific title was adopted by Mr. Haworth in allusion to the 
general size of the plant, not of the flower, which is rather 
small in proportion. 
It belongs to the division that expand their flowers in 
the forenoon. ‘The following description is taken chiefly 
from Mr. Haworth’s work on this genus. 
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