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appearance of M, scalpratum^ but mucli smaller, yet mucli lartjjer than the 

 rest of its allies. It floAvers in the autumn. 



The above is a translation of llaworth's descriptions combined. The 

 following is a description made from a coloured drawing of the type jdant 

 preserved at Kew : — Leaves apparently about 6-8 to a growth, spreading 

 right and left in two rows close to the ground, turned edgeways to the sliy, 

 5-7^ cm. long, 2-2^ cm. broad, straight, strap-shaped or tongue-shaped, very 

 obtusely rounded at the af)cx and not hooked or curved there, flat above, 

 convex on the back, deep greeiK Peduncles erect, 10-15 mm. long, 5 mm. 

 thick, acutely angular as is evidently the calyx, green. Calyx-lobes about 

 15-18 mm, long and 10 mm. broad, broadly oblong or ovate-oblong, 



with the apex apparently broadly rounded and abruptly contracted into a 

 short point. Corolla large, represented as only partly open, but probably 

 7-8 cm. in diameter when expanded ; petals apparently 40-45, about 

 4 cm, long and 1^ mm. broad, linear, obtuse, bright yellow, perhaps tinted 



with red on the back. Burchell in his MSS. Kphemeris, p. 111, describes the 

 flow^er as follows : — ^*. Calyx acutely triquetrous, with unequal sides; lobes 4, 

 with membranous margins, 3 of them kee*led. Stamens numerous. Stigmas 

 12, depressed-spreading, papillose, purplish. Ovary 12-celled." — M, medium^ 

 Haw, Supph p. 88 (1819) ; & Rev. p. 95 : DC. Prodr, vol. iii. p. 421, 



MossEL Bay Div. On the eastern side of Little Brak Biver, Oct. 10, 

 1814, Burcliell, G197-7 (the type). Somerset Div. at Commadagga, July 5, 



Un, Bar dell, 3309. 



Seeds only were collected of both the numbers quoted, and no specimen of 

 the cultivated plant was preserved by Burchell, but there is a good coloured 

 drawing of it at Kew, from which I have made the description given above. 



This species is placed as a synonym of AL cultratrum var. perviride by 

 Salm-Dyck, and Sender and Berger have followed him in this view, but it is 

 quite distinct from ]\L cultratum and undoubtedly identical with M. latinn^ 

 Haw. (see p. G9), which may well liave been obtained from the Mossel Bay 

 region, where, as I have pointed out {p. 1^9)^ the true M. Idsphlumj Linn. 

 may also have been procured. Although Burchell has also entered the name 

 M. medium under no. 3309, the type, as noted above, is no. G197-7, and 

 I doubt if the Commadagga plant is really identical with it. 



i^L MULTiFLOKor var. kubhum, TTaiv. This is M. tumuhdum^ Haw. 

 under M. imhricatum var. rid)riun^ Haw. 



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M. rUSTULATUM, IlciW. (§ 



This species appears to be 



correctly understood, and is well figured by Salm-Dyck. — M, puslulatum, 



Haw. Suppl. p. 88 (1819) 



Rev. p. 9G: DC, Prodr. vol. iii. p. 422: 



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