Monanthes
(from monos, one, and anthos, a flower; the flowers are often solitary). SYN. Petrophyes. ORD. Crassulaceae. A small genus (three species) of exceedingly dwarf and pretty, greenhouse, perennial, tufted herbs, natives of the Canary Islands and Morocco. Flowers purple or orange, small, on slender pedicels; petals six to twelve, linear or lanceolate; peduncles slender, erect, one to many-flowered, cymose or racemose. Leaves fleshy, rosulate, at the tips of the branchlets, or on elongated branches, opposite or alternate, clavate or cylindrical-ovoid. Stems filiform, dichotomous, creeping. For culture, see Crassula.
M. atlantica (Atlantic). fl. sub-solitary, and in short, few-flowered, terminal cymes; petals six, golden-yellow, speckled with red on the back, ovate-elliptic; anthers dark red. April. l. sub-sessile, 1/6in. long, succulent. Stem branched from the base; branches prostrate, 1in. to 3in. long, naked below, bearing a densely imbricated rosette of twenty to thirty leaves towards the apex. Mount Atlas, 1871. (B. M. 5988, under name of M. muralis.) M. muralis (wall), of Hooker. A synonym of M. atlantica.