has lately received young plants from his collector Mr. Cooper, 
found in Algoa Bay. 
Descr. The stem forms a cylindrical truzk two and a half 
feet high, and stout. Leaves few, spreading, a foot to eighteen 
inches long, and six inches wide, almost an inch thick at the 
base, quite entire at the margin, and there cartilagmous and 
white or tinged with red. The green of a glaucous hue, faintly 
striated, and marked with obscure, whitish, elongated spots. 
Scape or peduncle elongated, compressed, panicled at the top, 
bearing numerous racemes, arranged in a broad, flattened cyme, 
of drooping flowers, an inch and a quarter long clavate, and sin- 
gularly inflato-globose at the base. Stamens scarcely exserted. 
Ovary oblong ; style as long as the stamens ; stigma obtuse. 
Fig. 1. Flowering plant, much reduced. 2. Apex of a leaf. 3. Portion of a 
panicle :—nat. size. 4. Flower. 5. Pistil :—magnified. 
