are hairy. Possibly this great difference in the anthers 
may be sufficient to establish sectional characters in the 
genus of more importance than the foliage. 
S. Dunnii is a native of Spitzkop, in the mountains of 
the Transvaal goldfields, at elevations of 3600 to 6000 ft., 
whence seeds were sent to Kew by Mr. H. G. Dunn, of 
Oaklands, Claremont, Cape Town, in 1884, From these a 
profusion of plants have been raised at Kew, which in 
1886 formed a conspicuous ornamental border in the 
Succulent House, flowering in May and June, and fruiting 
in August. The leaves have attained the extraordinary 
dimensions of over three feet long, by sixteen inches broad, 
and are still growing. 
Dusor. Base of the very short stem as thick as the 
thumb, villous, as are the young scapes, inflorescence, and 
midrib beneath, with soft subglandular hairs that turn 
rufous when dry. Leaf solitary, eighteen to thirty-six 
inches long, sessile, horizontal and decurved, broadly 
oblong, obtuse, base rounded, contracted or subcordate, 
margin lobulate and coarsely irregularly crenate, upper 
surface reticulate and bullate between the nerves, finely 
pubescent, under surface tomentose, except the very broad 
villous costa. Scapes numerous (six to eight or more), 
uniseriate from the very base of the leaf, stout, erect, a 
foot high, bearing much-branched panicles of unilateral 
glandular-pubescent or tomentose racemes. Flowers one 
and a half inch long or more, at length drooping ; pedicels 
short. Sepals one-third of an inch long, linear-oblong. 
Corolla curved, between tubular and _ funnel-shaped, 
variable in brightness of tint, pale or bright rose-coloured 
with a bright red tinge, puberulous externally; lobes 
rounded, subciliate, two upper smallest. Stamens small, 
included, quite glabrous; filaments rather slender, in- 
curved, contracted near the base; anthers orbicular; 
rudimentary stamens very minute. Capsule one inch long, 
tomentose; style pubescent.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Reduced figure of whole plant ; 2, plant of the natural size; 3, calyx and 
style; 4, corolla laid open; 5 and 6, anthers; 7, ovary, disk and pedicel ; 8, fruit 
—all enlarged, 
