depicted, for with age the stem thickens, and the branches 
become more numerous and longer. Burman’s figure is 
an excellent representation of the plant as I saw it between 
thirty and forty years ago in Mr. Cooper’s collection. 
Descr.—A dwarf, glabrous succulent, three to six inches 
high, with a spread of from five to twelve inches. Stem 
very thick, cylindric, tuberculate, truncate, and forming a 
disk two to four inches in diameter at the top, from which 
spring stellately spreading or slightly deflexed branches in 
few or many series according to age. Branches slightly 
curved, up to six inches long, one-third to one-half of an 
inch thick, terete, tuberculate, bright green; tubercles 
rhomboid, decurrent. Leaves one-eighth to one-third of an 
inch long, spreading, fleshy, narrowly linear, slightly con- 
cave above, convex beneath, green. Flowers (inflorescences) 
very numerous, covering the disk-like top of the stem and 
tips of the short, inner branches, pedunculate. Pedunecles 
up to half an inch long, bracteate, with a few oblong or 
elliptic obtuse fimbriate scales at the top, green. Involucre 
cup-shaped, including the glands, about one-third of 
an inch in diameter, five-lobed; lobes erect, broadly 
rounded, fimbriate ; glands spreading, transversely oblong, 
obtuse, entire, yellow, changing ‘to orange and bright red. 
Male flowers (stamens) numerous, pedicels pubescent on 
the upper half. Female flower (ovary) three-angled, pubes- 
cent; styles connate; stigma three-lobed, lobes broadly 
cuneate-obcordate, recurved at the apex at maturity.— 
N. KE. Browy. 
Fig. 1, an inflorescence; 2, the same in section; 3, part of the involucre 
with glands and lobes (the latter should be erect) ; 4, pedicel of a male flower 
from which the stamen has fallen; 5, male flower; 6, sketch of the whole 
plant, reduced:—figs. 1-5 enlarged. 
