The specimen here figured of C. Purpusii was sent to 
me by Mr. R. J. Lynch, for figuring in this work from the 
Botanic Gardens of the University of Cambridge, where 
it flowered in the open air in June, 1899, having been 
subjected, without injury, to at least 12° below the 
freezing point in the previous winter. 
Descr.— Quite glabrous. Leaves crowded in a sessile 
rosette, four inches in diameter, thickly fleshy, of a dull, 
rather pale, more or less glaucous-green colour, tinged 
with dull red towards the margins and tips, outer one and 
a half to two inches long, ovate or elliptic-ovate, acumi- 
nate, tip pungent, inner densely crowded, narrower, paler, 
more glaucous. Peduncle four inches high, ascending 
from the base of the rosette, stout, and, as well as the 
cyme-branches and pedicels, pale, rose-coloured, bearing 
below the middle scattered, ovate, acuminate leaves like the 
radical, of which the lower are an inch long, the upper 
gradually smaller. Cyme twice dichotomous, branches 
divaricate, primary two and a half inches long, spreading 
and recurved ; bracts small, obtuse, fleshy. Flowers erect, 
pedicelled, three-fourths of an inch long. Sepals short, 
broadly ovate, obtuse. Corolla conical-tubular ; tube very 
short; segments linear, scarlet, with spreading, acute, 
golden-yellow tips. Stamens included; filaments sub- 
equal; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary ovoid-oblong, nar- 
rowed into a short style with five minute stigmas.— 
J.D. H. 
Fig. 1, portion of corolla and stamens; 2, tip of pedicel and ovary :—Both 
enlarged. 
