It flowered both in the Royal Gardens and at Benthall Hall 
from plants brought from the greater Atlas by Mr. Maw and 
myself in 187]. 
Drscr. Tufted, perennial, glaucous, glandular-pubescent. 
Stems prostrate and ascending, one to three inches long, the 
flowerless shoots short, densely clothed with imbricating 
leaves, and forming club-shaped masses. Leaves a quarter to 
one-third of an inch long, succulent, sessile, ovoid or ellipsoid, 
obtuse, terete, hardly flattened on the upper surface; those on 
the flower-bearing stems remote, often larger and more 
obovate or spathulate. Cymes 5—8-flowered ; flowers very 
shortly pedicelled, one-third of an inch in diameter, white 
with rose-coloured tips and dorsal keel of the petals. Sepals 
_ green, oblong, obtuse, glandular, half as long as the corolla. 
Petals elliptic-ovate, acute obtuse or shortly acuminate, 
glandular-pubescent at the back. Anthers brown. Glands 
short, small, clavate. Ovaries turgid, hispid, abruptly con- 
tracted into short somewhat recurved styles.—/. _D. H. 
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Figs. 1 and 2, Leaves ; 3, bud; 4, flower expanded ; 5, ovaries and hypo- 
gynous glands :—all magnified. 
