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on face, with minute pimples. Cymes terminal, small, few-flowered. Buds 

 bright red. Flowers \ inch across, shorter than the pedicels. Sepals spreading, 



Fig. 69. — 5. alamosanum S. Watson. 



lanceolate, blunt, papillose like the leaves, very fleshy, equalling the petals. 

 Petals broadly lanceolate or elliptic, acute, wide-spreading, ultimately sharply 

 reflexed in upper half, reddish-white with a silvery sheen. Stamens f the petals, 

 spreading, filaments white, anthers purple. Scales rather large, thrice as long 

 as broad, whitish, linear, truncate, emarginate. Carpels short, reddish-white, 

 erect. 



