many, rosulate on the top of the stem, four to six inches long 

 by one and a half broad, narrowly spathulate, cuspidate, 

 very thick, fleshy, smooth, pale green, nerveless, margins 

 erosely serrulate, sessile, or base contracted into a short, 

 stout petiole. Panicle very large, pyramidal, three feet 

 high, and nearly as broad ; branches very many, close-set, 

 spreading and decurved, with fleshy, oblong bracts at the 

 base, naked below, bearing towards the terminal cymosely 

 branched inflorescence a few small, ovate, sessile, fleshy 

 leaves. Flowers shortly pedicelled, three-quarters of an 

 inch broad. Calyx cupular, shortly eight- to many-toothed, 

 glabrous, green. Petals lanceolate, acute, pale yellow. 

 Filaments slender, dilated at the base ; anthers small, 

 oblong, apiculate. Disk-glands quadrate. Carpels ten ; 

 styles slender, erect, as long as the narrowly oblong ovary. 

 —J. B. H. 



Fig. 1, flower with the petals removed ; 2, petals and stamens ; 3, carpel :— 

 all enlarged; 4, reduced view of whole plant. 



