very compact clusters. The neat habit and the markedly 
glaucous green with scattered darker dots of the half- 
connate leaves give it a pleasing appearance. The 
flowers are bright yellow, expanding in full sunshine and 
closing at night. 
Description.—Herb, succulent, dwarf; root descending. Leaves 2, connate 
to their middle to form a fleshy corpuscle. Corpuscles densely tufted, 2-1 in. 
long, 4- in. thick, somewhat obovoid, much compressed at the apex with erect 
keeled lobes, glabrous, bluish-green, indistinctly marked with darker dots. 
Flowers shortly pedicelled, ¢ in. across. Calyx 3-5-lobed, somewhat mem- 
branous, pale green with the lobes becoming reddish. Petals 35-45, — 
8-seriate, linear, 2-fid or obtuse at the tip, connate below in a tube, bright 
ellow. Stamens many, yellow. Stigmas 5-6, filiform, pale yellow, connate 
elow in a columnar style. 
Tas, 87763,.—Fig. 4 and 5, stamens ; 6, pistil :— all enlarged. 
