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MR. N. E. BROWN : NEW AND OLD 



Cape Div. The locality from ^vLicll this plant was origmiiUy introdiiceJ 

 by Bowie Is unknown, but Scldethters no. Toil), collected on Lion Mountain 

 near Cape Town, appears to be this species. 



§ TUMIDULA. 



M. FESTIVUM, N. E, Br. Frutex ultra 30 cm. alius. Caules erectly 



Folia axillaria fantuiu vidi 



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iiljiuca ? 



3-4 mil], cras^i, internodiis 3-8 cm, longis. 



suberectuj 3 cm. longa, semiteretiaj aentnj apico recurva^ glabra, 



Cymai 5-7 cm. diainetroj 10-20-flora53 ramis 4-8 cm. longis subercctis. 



Bractefc 7-15 mm. lougse, late deltoidea^j acuta?, sid»patul[0^ cupulato-connahc. 



Fedicelli 10-12 nnn. longi. Calyx 0-lobus ; lobi 5-7 mm. longi, 4-5 mm. 



lati, deltoideo-ovati, acuti vol dorso apiculati, membranaceo-marginati. 



Petal 



a numerosissima^ 6-10 mm. longa, h-\ nnn. lata, lineta-iaj acuta^ 



interioria filiformia. 



Stamina 30-40 ?, circa 2-3 mm. longa. Stigmata 5^ 



parvUj cra.ssaj acuta, 1 mm. longa, 



A shrub over 30 cm. hio'h. Main stems or brancbes with Internodes 

 3-8 cm. loDg and 3-4 mm. thickj branching into cymes at the top^ brown^ 

 gland-dotted on the young parts. Leaves of the main stems fallen^ only 



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seen in the axillary tults, erect or suberect, 3 cm. Icng and li mm. thick 

 (dried);, apparently scmiterete and oE about the same breadth and thickness 

 throughout^ flat or concave above and rounded or obtusely keeled on the 

 baek, acute and recurved at the tips^ probably smooth and glaucous-green. 

 Cymes 5-7 cm. in diameter, 10-20-fluwei*edj Avith the flowers all nearly at 

 the same level, its branches 4-8 cnu long, suberect. Bracts 7-15 mm. long, 



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broadly deltoid-ovatcj acute, ascending, spreading, unitetl at the base into a 

 cup-like sheath, the upper with membranous margins. Pedicels 10-13 mm* 

 long* Calyx G^lobed, glabrous, gland-dotted in the dried state ; tube at the 

 base of the lobes ^i-^ mm. in diameter ; lobes 5-7 mm. long, 4-5 nun. broad, 

 deltoid-ovate or ovate, with jnembranous margins, acute or with a dorsal 

 point 1-2 mm. long just below the apex. Corolla probably 25 nun. or more 



in diameter ; petals very 



numerous, G-10 mm. long, 



^—\ nun. 



broad. 



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narrowly linear, acute, the inner (or possibly these nuiy be barren stamens) 

 filiform, all gland-dotted (dried). Stamens apparently- about 30-40, not very 

 numerous in proportion to the number of petals (unless the supposed inner 

 petals are antherless stamensj, about 2-3 mm, long. Stigmas 5 in the only 

 flower examined, 1 mm. long, stout^ erect, with recurved acute tips. 

 M. tumiduhim^ Sonder i]i FL Cap, vol, ii. p. 42(5 ; Berger, I\Iesemb. p. 114 

 (partly)j not of Hawortb.* 



Van lillYNSDOlir Div. Driefontein, Zeijher^ (598 ! 



This is the plant Sonder lias described as being M, tundduhun^ but it is 

 entirely different from that species in habit, number of flowers in a cyme, 



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