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HAWORTHIA XIPHIOPHYLLA. 
Native of Cape Colony. 
Nat. Ord. Liniacra.—Tribe ALoINEs, 
Genus Hawortuia, Duval; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 777.) 
Hawortnta wiphiophylia; acaulis, foliis 40-50 dense rosulatis lanceolatis 
pallide viridibus facie planis dorso distincte carinatis e basi ad aristam 
terminalem pellucidam sensim attenuatis, aculeis marginalibus magnis 
pellucidis, carind dorsali aculeis consimilibus predita, pedunculo semi- 
pedali bracteis vacuis paucis ovatis pallidis preedito, racemo laxo 10-12- 
floro, pedicellis brevibus ascendentibus, bracteis ovatis parvis, perianthii 
albi tubo oblongo-cylindrico lobis lineari-oblongis tubo brevioribus 3 
inferioribus quam superioribus magis recurvatis, genitalibus tubo inclusis, 
antheris subglobosis parvis, ovario oblongo, stylo brevissimo, stigmate 
capitato. 
This pretty ‘little new Haworthia belongs to the small 
section Arachnoidea. Of the old well-known species of the 
same section it differs from H. setata, Haw., by its narrower, 
thinner leaves, and from H. arachnoidea, Haw. (Aloe 
arachnoidea, Haw. (Bot. Mag. tab. 756) by the leaves not 
being at all pellucid or lineate. Like the other species of 
the genus it requires protection in winter. It was sent to 
the Royal Gardens, Kew, from the neighbourhood of 
Uitenhage, by Mr. C. Howlett, late a member of the 
garden staff at Kew, and now foreman in the nursery of 
Messrs. Smith Brothers, of Uitenhage. It flowered for 
the first time in April, 1896. 
Descr.—Leaves forty or fifty in a dense sessile rosette, 
lanceolate, two inches long, one-third of an inch broad 
low down, tapering gradually to a large pellucid terminal 
awn, fleshy, pale green, not at all pellucid or lineate on 
either surface, flat on the face, acutely keeled on the back, 
margined with large pellucid prickles, which extend to the 
upper part of the keel. Pedunele terete, half a foot long, 
furnished with a few small scariose ovate empty bracts. 
Perianth white, three-quarters of an inch long; tube 
oblong-cylindrical ; lobes linear-oblong, rather shorter than 
the tube, the three lower more reflexed than. the three 
November Isr, 1896, 
