and plants raised in this way reach a flowering condition 
in about two years; it may also be propagated by offsets 
which develop round the base of the plant after it has 
flowered, Our figure has been prepared from a plant which 
blossomed at Kew in June 1910. 
Description.—Lerb, almost stemless. Leaves rosulate, 
spreading, oblanceolate, acute, 4-5 in. long, 1-1} in. wide, 
gradually smaller upwards, glabrous, margin undulate 
but quite entire, with a narrow white border; nerves 
numerous, very slender. J/nflorescence at first cone-like, 
at length shortly racemose, many-flowered ; bracts green, 
ovate; bracteoles oblong, milky white or pale yellow, their 
tips tinged with red, about 1 in. long. Sepals 2 in. long, 
oblong, acuminate, yellowish-white. Petals 2 in. long, 
linear ligulate, bright orange, with basal scales. Stamens 
shortly included; anthers somewhat sagittate. Ovary 
conical, trigonous; style shortly exserted; stigma 3-lobed, 
spirally twisted. 
Fig. 1, petal and stamen; 2, anther; 3, pistil:—al/ enlarged. 
