ftom the Cape of Good Hope, and is one of those whose 
flowers do not expand till after midday. 
A perennial stemless plant. Leaves fleshy and very 
thick, radical, about 8, closely decussated, spreading, ovate, 
cymbiform or shaped like a boat, glaucous, elegantly marked 
with small white irregular spots, in our specimen about an 
inch long, two thirds of one broad and about one third 
of one thick, convex underneath, narrowing towards the 
‘end like the head of a boat, fiat above, high up the sides 
‘faintly and transversely grooved below the base of the teeth, 
beset at the inside of the edge with a single row of white 
cartilaginous long-awned slender teeth, inclining towards 
the base of the leaf; the awns, nearly as fine as the thread 
of a silkworm, are villous when viewed through a magnifying 
‘glass. Flower central, sessile, large in proportion to the 
plant, yellow, becoming saffron-coloured as it goes off. 
All these plants belong to the dry stove; and their treat- 
-ment is too familiar to every one to require notice in this 
place. 
. The drawing was made in September, at the nursery of 
Messrs. Whitley and Co. Fulham. 
