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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. — S. 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. 
