Description:—A succulent plant. Branches glabrous, angled and somewhat winged. Leaves connate 2·8-4 cm. long, ovate, acute, flat above, acutely keeled beneath, with the margins somewhat scarious. Flowers terminal, about 4 cm. in diameter when expanded. Sepals unequal, ovate, acuminate, acute, two of the sepals have membranous appendages on the inner face. Petals 1·7 cm. long, obovate, produced into a long claw. Stamens bending over into cavity of receptacle; filaments linear. Stigmas sessile on floor of receptacle. (National Herb. Pretoria, No. 2646.)
[Plate 110.]—Fig. 1, median longitudinal section of flower with sepals and petals removed; 2, sepals; 3, petal enlarged; 4, stamen; 5, cross section of ovary; 6, fruit; 7, section of leaf.
F.P.S.A., 1923.
S. Gower del.