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sensim angusUores, lanceolatae, linear! -lanceolatae et lineares, acutae, 

 mucronulatae, carnosac albidae subhyalinae, nervo medio croceo per- 

 cursae, exteriores pilis siinplicibus longioribus, interiores glandulis 

 breviter stipitatis capitatis eleganter ciliatae. Squamas vel rectius 

 perulas has sequuntur folia 3 — 6» quae basi lineari hyalina 3 — 5 -nervi 

 apice (Slipulis petiolo adnalis) biauriculata gemmam oblegunt anni 

 sequentia pari modo e perulis plurimis, quarunn exteriores latiores, 

 interiores angusliores, composilam. Discus bulbi brevissimus planus 

 radices emittit 1—3 simplices albas, superne conicas carnosas 10 — 12'" 

 crassas , tela cellulosa succo limpido acidulo replcta farctas et per- 

 cursas fasciculo vasorum central! tenui, qui fibrilla semitlit regulariter 

 in eeries 4 — 5 verlicillalim vel spiraliter dispositas, patentes, deorsum 

 attenuatas tenues fibrillosas 8 — 12'" longas. Folia omnia radicalia; 

 petioli erecto- patentes, leretes, supra stipulas articulali, pilosi, ruben- 

 tes, 4 — 8-pollicares; yb/i'o/« 3 sessilia, basi articulata, pilosa, superne 

 profunde ac sordide viridia subtus pulclierrime (ut in Sanseviera 

 C&rnea) purpureo- violacca, in plantis junioribus e basi late cuneata 

 obcordata lobis ovalis rotundatis, 2 — 3'" longa, 4 — G'" lata, in plan- 

 tis adullioribus e basi cuneata longe biloba, lobis lineari -oblongis 

 obtusiusculis binerviis reclangulariter hiantibus^ 3 — 4'" longa, 18 — 20'" 

 lata. Scapi foliorum longitudine, teretes, pilosi, rubentes, multi- 

 (11 — 31-)flori, dichotomo-umbellati, flore central! praecociorij 

 bracteae dichotomiae divisiones fulcientes duae, ovatae, acutae, cili- 

 atae, subhyalinae; bracteolae parliales evanidae. Calyx hypogynus, 

 pentasepalus; sepala inter se subinaequalia, lanceolata, acuminata, in- 

 tegerrima, glabra, viridia niargine albida, apice glandulis duabus ini- 

 nulis linearibus . convergentibus croceis nolata. Pctala calyce plu« 

 quam duplo longiora, e basi longe cuneata virenti obovato- oblonge, 

 obtusa, parum obliqua, pallide violaceo- vel roseo- albida, glabra, ra- 

 diatim venosa, medio inier se subcoalita. Slamina monadelpha; lon- 

 giora sepalis opposila ad medium usque glabra ibique dente acutius- 

 cula aucla, inde apicem versus pilis albis rigidis dense barbata, sub- 



