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



Fig. 168. — 5. indicum Hamet. 



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

 bracts linear. Buds ovoid. Flowers roughly globular, -^ to tV i'^ch 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, ij times the sepals, oblong, 

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

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



