Found in northern South Africa and southern Namibia, Gasteria batesiana is a rare Gasteria threatened in the wild by native medicinal users. Popular with local healers it is thought to transfer it's qualities of camouflage to humans who wash with the leaves. It has rough leaves spotted in white and sometimes with bands of alternating color. It is a small species and a ready clumper.
      I got this one in spring 2007 at a Tucson Botanical Garden plant sale. Hopefully it will produce lots of offsets I can then share.