in a dense rosette, lanceolate, half a foot long, one and a 
half or two inches broad at the base, narrowed gradually to 
an acute point, half an inch thick in the middle, rounded on 
the back, slightly turgid in the upper half of the face, dead 
green, marked on both faces with copious irregular transverse 
bands of small crowded oblong or roundish whitish spots, 
the edge armed with crowded deltoid cuspidate spreading or 
deflected prickles, a sixteenth or a twelfth of an inch long, 
which have a horny brown tip, the leaves bordered before 
they fade with purplish-brown, and at the flowering time all 
more or less recurved. Scape a foot and a half long, purplish, 
glaucous. Panicle deltoid, six or eight inches long, with an 
end raceme three or four inches long and two or three short 
erecto-patent branches ; pedicels three or four lines long ; 
bracts lanceolate, about as long as the pedicels. Perianth an 
inch long, bright coral-red on the outside ; tube twice as long 
as the segments, constricted at the middle ; segments oblong, 
yellow inside. Stamens falling slightly short of the tip of 
the perianth-segments ; oblong anthers a sixteenth of an 
inch long. — J. G. Baker . 
Fig. 1, A single flower; 2, perianth, cut open — both magnified. 
