from the coast. From M. albipunctatum, however, the 

 species now figured is readily distinguished by its more 

 spreading leaves, its larger, differently coloured flowers 

 and its more distinctly clavate styles. 



Description.— Herb, small and stemless. Leaves 8-11, 

 spreading or somewhat reflexed, linear-oblong, subacute, 

 entire, thick, shining green, closely and finely warted, 

 1-lf in. long, i-i in. wide, £-J in. thick, flattish or 

 somewhat concave above, convex, but hardly keeled 

 beneath, slightly incurved at the tip, compressed tri- 

 angular. Flowers nearly sessile, 1-1^ in. across. Calyx 

 wide campanulate; lobes wide deltoid-ovate, acute, 

 about i in. long, finely warted, margin membranous. 

 Petals very many, spreading or somewhat reflexed, about 

 i in. long, yellow, with a red central line. Stamens 

 numerous, erect; filaments whitish; anthers yellowish. 

 Styles 10, erect, spreading and somewhat clavate at the 

 tip. 



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