sterile branches very short, floriferous ones elongated; leaves crowded, subdistinct, incurved-patent, triquetrous, elongated, bluntish, mucronulate, green; petals purplish; filaments white. Differs from M. amoenum by the prostrate flowering branches, carinate-triquetrous, thicker leaves, and short peduncles; from M. spectabile by the green, not glaucous, leaves, ternate, short peduncled, much smaller flowers. Leaves 2 inches long, 3 lines wide. Peduncles rigid, 1–1 1/2 inch long. Petals bidentate. Styles 5, erect-spreading, thick, acute, ramentaceous.