from the Cape of Good Hope, and is one of those whose 
flowers do not expand till after midday. [28 
A perennial stemless plant. Leaves fleshy and very 
thick, radical, about 8, closely decussated, spreading, ovate, 
cymbiform or shaped like a boat, glaucous, elegantly marked 
with small white irregular’spots; in our specimen about an 
inch long, two thirds of one broad and. about’ one third 
of one thick, convex underneath, narrowing towards the 
end like the head of a boat, flat above, high up the sides 
faintly and transversely grooved below the base of the teeth 
beset at the inside of the edge with a single row of white 
‘cartilaginous long-awned slender. teeth, inclining towards 
the base of the leaf; the awns, nearly as fine as the thread 
of a silkworm, are villous when viewed through a magnifying 
glass. Flower central, sessile, large in proportion to the 
plant, yellow, becoming saflron-coloured as it goes off. 
All these plants belong to the dry stove; and their treat- 
pe is too familiar to every oné to require notice in this 
place. evens, faa 
The drawing was made in September, at’ the’ nursery of 
Messrs. Whitley and Co. Fulham. 
