Descr. Whole plant very glaucous and more or less cob- 

 webby. Stem, in our plant, rather short, succulent, suffruticose, 

 copiously leafy below, very sparsely so above. Leaves three to 

 four to five inches long, terete, thicker than a writing-pen, 

 straight or slightly curved, acute at the apex, scarcely attenu- 

 ated at the base. Flowers large, full yellow, two inches in dia- 

 meter, numerous, forming an elongated, compound, thyrsoid ra- 

 ceme or panicle. Pedicels bracteated, with small woolly scales. 

 Florets of the disk and the ray as is common to the genus. 

 Achcenia glabrous. 



Fig. 1. Floret of the ray. 2. Floret of the disk:— magnified. 



