PLATE DLXXX.
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM ACINACIFORME.
Scimitar-leaved Mesembryanthemum.
CLASS XII. ORDER IV.
ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Twenty Chives. Five Pointals.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
Petala valde numerosa, linearia, basi cohærentia.
Petals very numerous, linear, cohering at the base.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Mesembryanthemum foliis acinaciformibus: floribus amplissimis, lætè purpureis.