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NOVITATES AFRICANAE 
3 — 5 cm. longis; folia patenti-erecta vel adscendentia, connata, vagina 
ad 0-5 cm. longa, fere teretia vel supra subplana, obtusa vel subacuta, 
cum pedunculo calyceque minute denseque papillosa, laete viridia vel 
seniora pallidiora, 2 — 3-5 cm. longa, 0-8 — 0-9 cm. diam.; flores solitarii 
lateralia 5-meri, ad 6 cm. diam., pedunculis ad 2-5 cm. longis, 0-5 cm. 
diam., in calycem gradatim abeuntibus; calyx turbinatus, segmentis 
valde inaequalibus, duo longioribus ad 2-3 cm. longis, ceteris 1-1 — 2 cm. 
longis, tribus latissime membranaceo-marginatis; petala flaccida pluri- 
seriata, anguste linearia, albis, ad 2-5 cm. longa, circa 0-1 cm. lata; 
stamina diffusa, ad 0-5 cm. longa, filamentis albidis barbatis, antheris 
pallidis; nectarium forsitan e fossis minutis intra lobos ovarii com- 
positum; ovarium supra convexum, stylis tomentosis subulatis acumi- 
riatis, 0-3 cm. longis. 
Cape Province; near Vanrhynsdorp, 11. Oct. 1917, F. C. Kolbe 
(National Botanic Gardens, No. -ff 8 ). 
Described from fresh material consisting of four branches given by 
Monsignor Kolbe. 
M. Britteniae, L. Bolus, epapulosum glaberrimum, ramis rigidis elongatis, 
20 — 30 cm. longis, 0-3 cm. diam., internodiis 2 — : 2-5 cm. longis, patenti- 
bus, apicem versus ad terrain decurvis, latere superiore ramulos 
floriferos 4 — 5-nodosos, 4 — 9 cm. longos emittentibus, ramulis saepius 
defolia tis, ramulis ultimis 2 — 4-foliatis; folia adscendentia, basi vix 
connata, turgide triquetra, abrupte acuta, minute apiculata, glauco- 
viridia, saturate viridi-punctata, 1 — 1-6 cm. longa, medio 0-4 cm. lata 
diametroque; flores ternati, ad 2-8 cm. diam., pedunculis omnibus infra 
medium 2-bracteatis, 1-3 — 1-7 cm. longis, fructiferis ad 4 cm. longis; 
calyx globose turbinatus, segmentis 5, inter se subaequalibus, ovatis 
vel ovato-lanceolatis, 0-6 cm. longis, 3 vel etiam 4 membranaceo-mar- 
ginatis; petala 2 — 3-seriata spathulata saepius emarginata, roseo- 
purpurea, ultra medium purpureo-vittata, 0-7 — 1-2 cm. longa, apice 
0-2 cm. lata; stamina subdiffusa, filamentis barbatis, superne purpureis, 
0-4 — 0-5 cm. longis, antheris pallidis; discus annularis crenulatus; 
ovarium supra conico-convexum, stylis 10, lineari-subulatis acuminatis, 
0-5 cm. longis; capsula subglobosa 10-sulcata, medio 0-9 cm. diam. 
Cape Province: South-Eastern Region; near Grahamstown, L. 
Britten (Botanical Survey, No. 1802; Bolus Herbarium, No. 17142). 
C. F. Juritz, 77. 
Described from living specimens received from the Director of the 
Botanical Survey, and from specimens from a plant which flowered in 
Dr Juritz’s garden, Three Anchor Bay, in September 1921. 
M. sociorum, L. Bolus, epapulosum glaberrimum, ramis elongatis reptantibus, 
25 cm. longis vel ultra, 0-2 cm. diam., internodiis curvatis, 2 — 3 cm. 
