and thick stem scarred below with the fallen leaves, and, as well as 
the rest of the plant, singularly glaucous. Leaves large, thick, 
fleshy, spreading, clothing the upper part of the stem, rosulate, 
obovate, obtuse or with only an obtuse point, slightly concave 
above, convex beneath, the base, where set upon the stem, di- 
lated: the scars formed by the fallen leaves, orbicular. Peduncles 
lateral, from among the leaves, erect, a foot or more long, sparingly 
leafy : its dracteal-leaves oblong or tongue-shaped, subsemiam- 
plexicaul, often tinged with red, the base on each side prolonged 
into a spur. Speke four to six inches or more long, singularly 
drooping in flower, eventually erect. Flowers secund, large, sub- 
tended by large imbricating cordate bracteas, but in the op- 
posite direction to the bracts: these dracteas are also bicalcarate 
at the base. Pedicels very short, thick. Calya ample, almost an 
inch long, campanulate, deeply cut into five, ovate-oblong, glau- 
cous, fleshy, subfoliaceous unequal segments. Pe/als five, erecto- 
patent, oblong, acuminate: at the summit of the broad claw are 
two obtuse, conspicuous auricles. Zimdé of the corolla red. Sta- 
mens: five free, alternating with the petals; five smaller ones, 
with short filaments, adnate with the petals. Authers ovate. 
Ovaries five, oblong, with a fleshy disc at their base. Styles 
short, subulate. Stigmas capitate. 
Fig. 1. Flower from which the calyx is removed. 2. Petal and two stamens: 
—magnified. 
