in the works of Jacquin, so rich in the Ensatee of those 
regions, nor һауе we ever heard of its being in any garden, 
although enumerated in the Kew Catalogue. 
The present species is a fibrons-rooted evergreen peren- 
nial. Leaves edgewisely-distich, linearly ensiform, narrow, 
slightly glaucous, a foot or much more in length, slightly 
convex at one of the sides. Scape ancipital, flat, linear, 
leafless, without joint or knot, streaked, inclined edgeways, 
equal to or longer than the leaves, stiffish as the whole 
plant is, except the flower. General spathe terminal, bi- 
valved, compound, equitant, several-flowered, valves lan- 
ceolate and folded, the outer one appearing like a continu- 
ation of the scape, and is sometimes carried on a con- 
siderable Iength beyond the flowers, when these appear like 
lateral ones; but it is also often not much longer than the 
inner divergent one: partial spathes about 3, several-valved, 
with 1 or 2 flowers. Peduncles even with the partial spathes, 
villous, white, somewhat robust. Germen green, smooth, 
several times shorter than the corolla, oblong, obsoletely 
three-cornered, unfurrowed, many-seeded : corolla imbri- 
cately stellate, yellow, thinly sprinkled with purple dots 
round the centte, about two inches over, nearly equal; seg- 
ments ovally lanceolate, exterior ones of a reddish brown at 
the back, interior one scarcely broader but more bluntly 
pointed with a short brown streak at the lower part of the 
middle of the back. Stamens about twice shorter than the 
corolla, upright; filaments fixed in the thicker centre, quite 
separate, thickish, ancipitally compressed, subulate, firm, 
yellowish, inore than twice shorter than the anthers: an- 
thers uprightly connivent, sagittately linear, inserted at the 
notch ia the base, stiff, + of an inch long; pollen deep yel- 
low or orange. Style more than twice shorter than the 
filaments, robust, triquetral, tapered downwards: stigmas 
three times longer than the style or more, divaricate, com- 
pressedly subulate, whitish, straight, stiff, with a short 
pubescent fissure at the end of the inner edge. 
We had an opportunity of inspecting a considerable 
number of the native specimens of this species in Mr. 
Burchell’s Herbarium. 
