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pustulata, turgide triquetra, apicem versus divergentia attenuata 
apiculata, apiculo recurvo, supra plaua ; flores solitarii, ad 2-4 cm. diam., 
pedunculo circa 1-2 cm. longo, parte exserta 0-5 cm. longa, 0-3 cm. 
diam. ; calyx disciformis, segmentis 4, acutis, duobus elongatis cariuatis 
compressis, ad 0-8 cm. longis, duobus ovatis, 0-5 cm. longis; petala 
pauciora 1-seriata linearia obtusa roseo-purpurea, 1 cm. longa; stamina 
numerosa, filamentis incurvis, deinde e medio patente-recurvis, bar- 
batis roseo-purpureis, ad 0-6 cm. longis; discus annularis, irregulariter 
crenulatus ; ovarium supra globose convexum, stylis 6, basi per tertiam 
partem longitudinis coalitis, linearibus acuminatis, apicem staminum 
attingentibus, 0-5 cm. longis. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; N. S. Pillans (National 
Botanic Gardens, No. -ff-). 
Described from a specimen which flowered at Kirstenbosch in April 
1917. The species is quite unlike any other known to me. The plant 
consisted of some 6 or 7 subaerial branchlets, each of which comprised 
the withered remains of a pair of leaves with the hardened remains of 
a peduncle and flower between them, and from the axil of each withered 
leaf sprang the year’s growth, viz. the ultimate branchlet of two leaves 
ensheathing the stem and a solitary flower, as described above. 
M. Peersii, L. Bolus. Fruticulus erectus epapulosus glaberrimus, circa 30 cm. 
altus, rarnis adscendentibus, 15 — 20 cm. longis, internodiis 2 — 4 cm. 
longis; folia patenti-erecta vel alterum paris adscendentia, triquetra 
acuta glauco-viridia, apice purpurascentia, 2 — 4 cm. longa, 0-4 cm. lata 
diametroque, omnia ramulifera, ramulis 2 — 2’5 cm. longis; flores ternati 
5-meri, 3-5 — 4-4 cm. diam., pedunculis omnibus medio 2-bracteatis, 
4 — 4-5 cm. longis vel lateralibus ad 6 cm. longis; calyx turbinatus, seg- 
mentis inter se subaequilongis, ovatis vel ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, 
0*9 — 1 cm. longis, duobus late brunneo membranaceo-marginatis , 
petala adscendenti-recurva numerosissima multi-seriata, primo satuiate 
aurantiaca, deinde rubicunda, demum roseo-purpurea, 0-5 l - 8 cm. 
longa; staminodia flliformia, petalis concoloria; stamina conico-collecta, 
ad 0-6 cm. longa, filamentis pallidis, antheris aureis ; glandulae nectari- 
ferae semi-lunatae contiguae; ovarium supra planum, stylis 0-5 cm. 
longis, basi viridibus, dense papillatis, in caudam glabram setaceo- 
acuminatam purpuream 0-35 cm. longam abeuntibus. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Clanwilliam Div., Giaa.fi 
Water, V. S. Peers (National Botanic Gardens, No. 
Described from specimens which flowered at Kirstenbosch during 
September 1917-1919. 
M. Kolbei, L. Bolus. Fruticulus erectus, rarnis visis ad 24 cm. longis, 0-5 cm. 
diam., rigidis, vaginis foliorum delapsorum notatis, internodus saepms 
