1832. It is very handsome, and flowered, for the first time, 
ae stove of the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in June, 
1835. 
Descr. Stem short, stout. Leaves (seven inches long, 
four to six lines broad at the base) crowded, subulate, spread- 
ing, deflexed in the upper half, rigid; above, when young, 
channelled, afterwards flat, of an uniform dark-green colour, 
shining ; below rounded, glaucous, striated ; teeth aristato- 
spinous, distant, spreading, straight or hooked backwards 
or forwards, dark brown. Flower-stalk (two feet high) 
elongated, erect, somewhat woolly at the top, scaly, the 
scales woolly, adpressed, and clasping, below resembling 
reduced, suberect leaves, above less acuminated : membra- 
nous, and marcescent. Flowers (about twelve) scattered 
loosely near the top of the stalk, without pedicels, arising in 
the axils of the scales, spreading, orange-coloured. Calyx 
three-parted, segments rigid, concave, ovate, overlapping 
at the base, adpressed, twice as long as the scales. Corolla 
twice as long as the calyx, trifid, triquetrous when fully ex- 
panded, nectariferous at the base ; segments slightly une- 
qual in breadth, rhomboid, elongated at the base, spread- 
ing along the centre, compressed on the sides, somewhat 
undulate, united at the base with the calyx into a fleshy 
mass. Stamens six, inserted into the corolla, but alternately 
in the centre of the segments, and towards the edge so as to 
be opposite to the sepals, subexserted ; filaments broad, 
flattened, slightly tapering at the apex ; anthers bilocular, 
sagittato-oblong, bursting along the front, attached at the 
bottom of the sinus to the filament, and placed on the face 
of a broad connective; pollen granules minute, yellow, ob- 
long. Pistils shorter than the stamens ; style trifid, seg- 
ments twisted together, and towards the apex each on its 
own axis, so as to give the linear stigma a spiral form. 
Germen oblong, three-lobed, lobes cohering in the centre ; 
ovules numerous, rounded, flattened from being crowded 
above each other, attached in two rows within each locula- _ 
ment to a central receptacle. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Stamens. 2. Pistil: magnified. 
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