FLORA OF SOUTH AFRICA. 473- 
cicatrices, to which the leaves were attached; by its some- 
what larger (not filiform) and less curved leaves, which are 
generally not more than three in a fascicle, and sometimes 
even solitary, and by its shorter spikes (commonly one inch 
long), the bracts of which are but slightly broader than the 
common leaves (scarcely exceeding half a line in breadth), 
and consequently distinctly narrower than in M. Candol- 
leana. 
6. M. Kraussiana, nob.; fruticosa, ramis virgatis, pube- 
scentibus, dense foliosis, inferne tuberculato-cicatrisais : 
folis fasciculatis, semierectis, glabris, linearibus, obtusis, 
mucronulatis, basi attenuatis, dorso convexis, supra subcon- 
cavis; floribus sparsis, folia vix equantibus; sepalis brevibus, 
acutis, muticis ; capsula late ovata, stylis 4 equilonga. 
In solo calcareo planitiei Zcetendalsvaley, prov. Caledon 
(IV. C, a.) Dec. 1838. Krauss n. 807. 
A pretty shrub, easily distinguished from all other species 
by its foliage, which so densely covers the branches, as to 
conceal them almost completely. Leaves from 3 to 7 
(usually 5) in each fascicle, coriaceous or somewhat fleshy, 
and therefore slightly wrinkled when dry, of a light yellowish 
green, all nearly of the same length (about 3 lines), almost 
spathulate or cuneate, broadest (about half a line) near the 
top, which is rounded and terminated by a minute sharp 
point, more visible and longer on the youngest leaves, ge- 
nerally obsolete or wanting on the lower ones; the upper 
surface is flat or slightly concave, the inferior obtusely convex 
(not carinate) with mo distinct nerves, and the margins are 
sharp, without cilia or asperities. Flowers seattered along 
the extremity of the branchlets, half concealed by the leaves, 
considerably smaller than those of M. Heisteria; sepals very 
short (about one-third of the length of the whole flower), 
acute, the upper one a little longer than the rest; petals 
pink, with the top of the carina dark purple, the upper ones 
narrow, obtuse, half as long as the inferior: capsule ovate, 
almost as broad as long, didymous, smooth, crowned with 4 
thin styles of its own length, and EON. -— 
