Descr.—A stemless plant. Leaves in a dense rosette, 
erecto-patent, linear-lanceolate, tapering into a long point, 
about 14 in. long, 25-3 in. wide, and ¢ in. thick, bicon- 
vex in section, dull green above and marbled with long, 
whitish marks, and nerved with similar lines, especially 
near the margin, pale green and unspotted beneath; © 
margins sinuate and armed with brown, deltoid, horny, 
sharp spines as much astin.long. Inflorescence from 24—4ft. 
high; scape glaucous, branched from below the middle; 
branches 8-13, erecto-patent, the terminal one the shortest ; 
pedicels about 2 in. long; bracts scarious, deltoid, subulate, - 
3-nerved, about 1 in. long. Perianth pale flesh-colour, 
yellowish inside, 1} in. long; tube slightly constricted 
above the ovary, curved and slightly swollen near the 
throat, somewhat hexagonal; lobes not quite as long as 
the tube, with whitish margins and central striped area, 
slightly recurved at the apex. Filaments scarcely ex- 
serted ; anthers oblong, orange.—ALWIN BerGer. 
Figs. 1 and 2, stamens; 3, pistil :—all enlarged. 
