Descr. — A small, very stout, fleshy shrub, seven to eight 

 inches high (in the specimen figured), branching below and 

 upwards, sometimes from the root ; covered densely with 

 a silvery, velvety tomentum, which becomes rusty on the 

 stems, and retrorse on the foliage. Leaves two to three 

 inches long, sessile, sub-rosulate towards the tips of the 

 spreading branches, spathulately obovate or oblong, obtuse, 

 thickly fleshy, convex on both surfaces, nerveless, pale 

 green. Flowers three-fourths of an inch long, erect or 

 inclined, disposed in a spiciform raceme terminating an 

 elongate, ascending, stout, leafy branch, orange^red. 

 Bracts leaf-like, the lower an inch long, the upper gradually 

 smaller. Pedicels very short and stout. Calyx about half 

 as long as the corolla, green ; segments ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, erect. Corolla urceolately campanulate, tube short; 

 segments oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, dorsally velvety 

 and obtusely keeled, margins nearly glabrous, pale, tip's 

 spreading or recurved. Stamens about one-third shorter 

 than the corolla-segments ; anthers linear-oblong, apicu- 

 late. Dish-glands lunate. Carpels narrowly ovoid, terete, 

 narrowed into short, subulate styles ; stigmas capitellate.^ 

 */. i), 11. 



«lSfi 7 fl ;° We / r; 2 ' 8C S me ? t of corolla and stamens; 3, glands of disk and 

 pistil :— all enlarged ; i, reduced view of whole plant. 



