green, with copious lines and oblong confluent whitish 
blotches, much paler on the convex back, furnished on the 
margin with large deltoid-cuspidate spreading prickles 
which are brown and horny in the upper half. Pedunele 
flattened, purplish, glaucous, simple or forked, above a foot 
long. Inflorescence a dense corymb about four inches in 
diameter ; pedicels erecto-patent, an inch or an inch anda 
half long; bracts lanceolate, shorter than the pedicels. 
Perianth bright yellow, with a tinge of red, nearly two 
inches long; tube distinctly constricted above the globose 
base; segments oblong-lanceolate, half as long as the tube. 
Stamens and style just reaching to the tip of the perianth- 
segments ; pollen bright red.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Whole plant,—muech reduced; 2, front and back view of anthers,— 
magnified ; 3, pistil,—natural size. 
