tinguished as OC. devensis from Deva, the Roman name of 
Chester. 
Descv.—A succulent perennial, with a simple stem 
fifteen inches high, and one inch and a half thick, marked 
with the transverse scars of fallen leaves, glaucous-green 
above, becoming brown with age. Leaves laxly rosulate, 
eight to ten inches long, three to three and a half inches 
broad, oblanceolate or elongate-obovate, tapering into a 
broad, short petiole, light green, tinged with light rosy 
purple at the base, slightly glaucous. Flower-stems two, 
one on either side of the plant, five to seven feet long, 
half to three-quarters of an inch thick, erect, somewhat 
flexuose, purplish or reddish on the upper part, green 
below, glaucous, the lower half laxly covered with elongate, 
oblanceolate, acute leaves, three and a half to four and a 
half inches long, and three-quarters to one and a quarter 
of an inch broad, tapering to the shortly spurred base, 
light green, tinged with rosy-purple at the base, slightly 
glaucous. Panicle about nine inches long, of several re- 
curving racemes two to four and a half inches long. 
Flowers pedicellate, bracteate. Sepals one-quarter to one- 
third of an inch long, very spreading, fleshy, linear- 
lanceolate, acute, whitish-glaucous, slightly rosy-tinted. 
Corolla six to seven lines long, five-angled, with lanceolate, 
acute segments, scarlet-red, paler towards the base, very 
glaucous. Stamens included. Hypogynous glands trans- 
verse, emarginate. Carpels whitish, tapering into short, 
purple styles.—N. E. Brown. 
Fig. 1, flower, with the corolla and stamens removed, showing the hypo- 
gynous glands and carpels; 2, petal and stamen; 3, anther, side view; 
4, whole plant :—tigs. 1—3, enlarged; fig. 4, greatly reduced. 
