Hefagiiun Botanicum,] 
[September, 1870. 
TAB. 234. 
Natural Order Liliace^. 
Tribe Aloine.e. 
Genus Haworthia, Duval. 
H. PiLiFEEA (Baker). Acaulis, foliis 20 — 30 crassissimis in rosulam 
dense confertis, exterioribus patentibus oblongis vix uncialibus 
pilifero-aristatis e medio sursum ad basin aristae cite angustatis 
pallide viridibus facie pauUulum convexis, dorso rotundatis, utrinque 
per tertiam superiorem pellucido-vittatis, apice pellucido, ad mar- 
ginem, carinam et precipue ad aristam setis pellucidis patentibus 
ciliatis, pedunculo semipedali, racemo 10 — 12-floro, bracteis parvis 
lanceolatis, pedicellis perbrevibus vel subnullis, perianthio albido 
viridi vittato, limbo distincte bilabiato tubo duplo breviore. 
A native of Cape Colony, discovered by Mr. Cooper. 
Leaves twenty to thirty in a dense sessile rosette v^^hich is 
more than two inches broad but more than an inch deep, oblong, 
narrowed a little between the middle and the base, and suddenly 
from above the middle to the base of a long decidedly hair-like 
point, three to three and a half lines thick in the centre, the face 
slightly convex, the back round, the colour pale green, the upper 
third on both sides densely marked with pellucid ribs, the tip 
and awn (which is three to four lines long) entirely pellucid, the 
edge, keel, and especially the awn, ciliated with spreading pel- 
lucid setse half a line long. Inner leaves erect, outer patent. 
Peduncle six to eight inches long exclusive of the raceme. 
Flowers ten to twelve, the upper sessile, the lower nearly so. 
Bracts lanceolate, three to four lines long. Perianth eight to 
nine lines long, white striped with green, the distinctly bilabiate 
limb half as long as the tube. 
Closely allied to the last, but very different in the texture of 
the leaves. 
Tab. 234. — 1, leaf viewed in front ; 2, the same from the back ; 
3, tbe same from the side : natural size. 4, flower complete, magnified. 
-J. G. B. 
Another of Mr. Cooper's discoveries in South Africa, and 
received from him in the living state. It requires the same 
careful treatment mentioned Tab. 232. — W. W. S. 
