the inspection of the public. It flowered in July of this 
year. He informs me that it was sent with several others 
from Graham’s Town, and that the flower opens by five 
o'clock. 
Desor. A stemless dwarf succulent plant, consisting at 
maturity of two fully-formed leaves, placed at right angles 
to a pair of small withered ones at their bases, and one or 
two sessile flowers between them. Leaves trigonously 
hemispherical, two inches in diameter, of a dull grey green, 
covered with minute green pustular spots; face or upper 
surface nearly flat, back obscurely bluntly keeled and 
slightly laterally compressed, margins rounded. lowers 
sessile between the leaves, two to three inches in diameter, 
with two fleshy oblong trigonous bracts at the base 
placed at right angles to the leaves. Calyzx-tube half an 
inch in diameter, turbinate; lobes six, oblong, revolute. 
Petals very numerous, two-thirds to one and a quarter inch 
long, in several series, very narrowly linear, almost filiform, 
spreading and recurved, free at the base, yellow below the 
middle, dull red beyond it. Stamens very numerous, in 
many series, twice as long as the calyx-lobes. Ovary with 
a low ten-grooved conical crown, ending in a short thick 
style; stigmas ten, filiform and rugose.—J. D. H. 
Fiz. 1, Bracts; 2, vertical section of flower with the petals removed; 3 and 4, 
anthers ; 5, top of ovary ; 6, ovules; 7, single ovule :—all enlarged. 
