in April of the present year. In the Canary Islands this 
species has been found in the Isles of Ferro and Teneriffe, 
usually on walls but sometimes on rocks. 
Descr. A small tufted nearly glabrous shining succulent 
perennial. Stems branched from the base ; branches prostrate, 
one to three inches long, cylindric, naked below, bearing a 
densely imbricate rosette of twenty to thirty leaves towards the 
apex. Leaves about one-sixth of an inch long, subsessile, spathu- 
late, quite entire, obtuse or emarginate or retuse, succulent, dark 
green and shining. Yowers subsolitary and in short few- 
flowered subterminal peduncled glandular cymes, a quarter 
to one-third of an inch in diameter, shortly pedicelled. 
Calyx-tube broadly hemispherical; lobes six, triangular- 
ovate, acute. Petals six, elliptic-ovate, acuminate, golden 
yellow, speckled with red on the back beneath the tip, 
which is keeled, twice as long as the calyx, recurved.  Sta- 
mens twelve, filaments dilated; anthers dark-red. Scales 
spathulate, fleshy, yellow, limb recurved, notched. Carpels 
semi-ovoid, turgid at the base, narrowed into short slender 
red erect styles. Ovules three to four in each carpel, 
ascending from the ventral suture near the base—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of stem and leaf; 2, flower; 3, ditto open ; 4, base of 
calyx, scales, and carpels; 5, petal; 6, stamen; 7, scale and transverse 
section of carpel ; 8, vertical section of carpel :—all magnified. 
