acaulescent, perennial, cæspitose, with a stout rootstock of firm texture; leaves 12–20 in a dense rosette, oblong-lanceolate, thick, fleshy, glaucescent on the rounded back, a foot long, 2–3 in. broad low down, tapering gradually to a point, the outer flat, the inner concave on the face; peduncle above a foot long, ancipitous towards the base; raceme dense upwards, a foot long, 1 1/2 in. diam.; pedicels 1/3– 1/2 in. long; bracts small, deltoid-cuspidate; perianth bright yellow, 1/3 in. long; stamens more than half as long as the perianth-segments. null