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glabrous, rather glaucous, densely red-dotted when old, sessile, spathulate- 

 acuminate to oblong-acuminate, tapered below, broadest J way up, ending in a 

 spine ^ inch long, i J to 2 J inch long, f to f inch broad, flat above, convex below ; 



Fig. 168. — S. indicum Hamet. 



stem-leaves similar or narrower, longer than the intemodes, very fleshy, upper 

 bracts Unear. Buds ovoid. Flowers roughly globular, -^^ to ^ inch long and 

 broad. Calyx in outline hemispherical, ^\ inch long, very fleshy, smooth or 

 finely papillose, green dotted with purple, segments 5, triangular to oblong, 

 blunt, much exceeding the tube. Petals erect, i^ times the sepals, oblong, 

 broadest at base, bluntly pointed, inserted almost horizontally, tips recurved, flat j 

 almost S-shaped in vertical section, concave inwards in cross-section, very fleshy 



