Driekoppen, Zwaanepoetsport berge, and Gamka river, all 
in the South-western region of the Cape Colony. 
CO. pyramidalis has been long in cultivation at Kew, 
where it flowers in the Succulent House in May and June, 
Descr.—Stems two to three inches high, entirely hidden 
from base to tip by the leaves, which are most densely 
quadrifariously imbricate, together forming a rather 
acutely four-angled, green column. Leaves spreading 
almost horizontally, nearly half an inch broad, those 
of each series being closely appressed to one another, 
broadly triangular, with rounded sides, thinly fleshy, 
green, margins puberulous in a young state, base con- 
tracted and semi-amplexicaul, with a semi-lunar insertion. 
Plowers capitately corymbose, forming a sessile head an — 
inch in diameter or less, pentamerous, very shortly pedi- 
celled, white. Sepals very small, narrowly spathulate, 
with ciliate margins. Petals united below into a tube 
twice as long as the sepals; free portions as long as the 
tube, linear, obtuse, sub-flexuously spreading. Stamens in- 
serted in the corolla-tube, filaments very short, anthers 
large, ovate-oblong. Hypogynous scales dilated upwards 
from a very narrow base, truncate. Carpels narrowed into 
short styles—J. D. H. — 
Fig. 1, Top of stem and leaves; 2, flower: 3 ; J cei 
5, hypogynous glands and carpels :—All one p oy corolla Tr 
