Leaves spirally arranged in a stemless rosette which offsets somewhat from the base and is about 60 mm in diam., thick-erect elongated-lanceolate, sometimes a little broadened at the base, 35-50 mm long, 8-12 mm wide, almost yellow-green except for the end surface, on the underside often tinted reddish and here often red during the dormant period on the face towards the base almost flat, sharply inclined at an angle of about 30°, at the apex often still more bent back, strongly convex underneath, and from the middle onwards bluntly and obliquely keeled, and carrying rarther numerous paler, low, blunt tubercles which very rarely bear a white tooth. The small teeth on the margin and keel are white and toward the apex of the leaf barely 1-2 mm long. The retuse end surface is dull, semi-pellucid, smooth, sometimes bent a little to one side, triangular widened at the base to a somewhat ovate shape, tapers gradually to a point, 20 mm long or Ionger, 6-10 mm wide at the base, somewhat convex, but toward the apex usually flat or in-distinctly concave, with a long, comparatively thick, middle stripe which, however, hardly reaches the apex, with two shorter side stripes and, occasionally between the latter and the margins, with two still shorter stripes, very rarely with 1 (-2) minute teeth.
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