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Leaves nearly tetrahedral in shape, 80-40 mm. long and broad, flat 
or slightly rounded below, with a blunt keel on the upper side and a 
very obtuse apex. Surface finely granulated from the numerous idio- 
blasts embedded in the green tissue. Colour of old leaves brownish-red, 
of the young pair, which appears in winter, glaucous. Flowers opposite, 
pedunculate ; peduncle 25-40 mm. long, bringing the flower just above 
MesoiLbriantkemuiii lajndifornie, Marl, 
Entire plant, consisting of one pair of old leaves (brownish-red), one pair of young 
leaves in the centre (glaucous), and 2 flowers, the front flower showing the peduncle 
with its 2 fleshy bracts. Nat. size. 
the surface of the soil. Calyx 6-lobed, the sepals 12 mm. long, the 3 
innermost with a hyaline margin and a gibbous apex. Petals linear, 
15-18 mm. long, white, spreading or erect. Stamens in several rows, 
spreading, the filaments pink, the pollen yellowish-white. Stigmas six. 
Discovered by Capt. E. Alston, in the Ceres Karoo, flowering 
September, 1913. Herb. Marloth, No. 5277. 
