S. spathulatum is a native of South-western Australia, 
which is the head-quarters of the genus, and was raised at 
Kew from seeds sent home by Mr. Maxwell, a well-known — 
horticulturist in that colony, and valued correspondent of — 
the Royal Gardens. 
Descr. ootstock short, with many tufted fibres, pro- 
ducing a solitary rosette, rarely proliferous. Leaves very 
variable in size, forming a dense crowded rosette two to four — 
inches in diameter, three quarters of an inch to two inches 
long, obovate or elliptic-spathulate, acute or obtuse, narrowed 
into a petiole, glandular-pubescent or pilose, quite entire, coria- 
ceous. MScapes few or many, four to ten inches high, very 
slender, flexuous, more or less glandular-pubescent, scales 
or scape-bracts few, scattered, erect, subulate. Raceme — 
simple, two to ten inches long, lax-flowered. Vower half — 
an inch in diameter, pale straw-coloured with an orange-red 
spot in the centre; pedicels very slender, a quarter to half an 
inch long, with a minute basal bract and two alternate 
equally small bracteoles. Calyx-tube clavate, terete, twice as 
long as the ovate-lanceolate acute lobes. Corolla-lobes five ; 
four of them linear-oblong, tips rounded, each with a small 
2-lobed .gland at the very base; the fifth very small, 
subulate, recurved. Column about as long as the petals, 
slender; anthers purple; stigma naked. Capsule narrowly 
obovoid-oblong.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, front and back view of flower :—all magnified. 
