succulent plants received from Professor Pearson as part 
of the fruits of his journey. It has thriven well in the 
Tropical Succulent House at Kew and flowered here for 
the first time in June, 1912. 
Description.—ferb; stem subglobose or cylindric- 
oblong, very blunt, simple or sparingly branched at the 
very base, 13-3 in. long, 1}-2 in. thick, irregularly 
tessellately tubercled, glabrous ; tubercles 1-1 in. wide, 
very blunt, at first minutely apiculate. //vwers fascicled, 
erect ; fascicles 2-4-flowered. Pedicels 5 in. long, glab- 
rous. Sepals small, wide-ovate, acute, glabrous. Corolla 
4 in. across, smooth externally, minutely rugulose within, 
glabrous, whitish but marked with many close-set purple 
dots and short streaks; tube wide-patelliform or almost 
flat ; lobes spreading, '; in. long, over +}, in. wide, broadly 
deltoid-ovate, acute. Outer corona 5-lobed ; lobes short, 
trifid or bifid with a short intermediate tooth, almost 
reaching the sinuses between the corolla lobes, pale 
yellowish blotched with purple. Inner corona with short, 
linear, acute lobes rather larger than the anthers, their 
tips erect-connivent, yellowish with purple margins. 
Fig. 1, calyx from which the corolla has fallen; 2, a flower; 3, corona; 
4, pollen-masses :—all enlarged, 
