RinuSj here each sinus is quite entire and even ; the limb is 

 there so far undulated or curled as to have suggested the 

 specific name, but is clearly not so here; the leaves are 

 there of the dimensions of 6 inches in length and 4 

 in breadth, affording very different proportions to those 

 found in the leaves of the present plant, where they are 

 about 8 inches in length, and scarcely 3 in breadth. Both 

 however have thia peculiarity in common, viz. that the dried 

 foliage bears a great resemblance to that of Hemerocallis 

 japonica, not merely in point of contour, but also in the ap- 

 pearance of the nerves, which are barred or latticed: a cha- 

 racter hardly to be perceived in the fresh state in this species, 

 nor probably in the other. 



The plant now represented is the produce of seed re- 

 ceived by Mr. Lambert from Demerara; was reared in his 

 hothouse at Boyton, and blossomed in November. The 

 specimen in the Banksian Herbarium (unquestionably of the 

 same species) had been obtained from a bulb that flowered 

 several years ago at Kew; and which came out of a vessel 

 captured in the late war, having on board a collection of 

 plants of Cayenne for the Botanic Garden at Paris. 



I eaves deep green, petioled ; hlade elongatedly oval, 

 tapered at each end, abruptly pointed ; petiole 3-4 inches 

 long, channelled, narrow. Scape ancipital or two-edged. 

 Spathe 4-valved, valves green inclining to white, oblong, 

 the longest about 3 inches high, decussatedly opposite. 

 Upright: umbel sessile, about 8-flowered; flowers white, 7 

 surrounding a central one, when extended about 11 inches 

 long ; tube greenish white, half a foot high or more, round, 

 straightish, faintly angular, streakless, about twice the 

 thickness of a crow-quill, narrowed above and more con- 

 spicuously triangular: limb radiated, widespread, segments 

 linear, about 2 or 3 lines broad, from 4 to 5 inches long, 

 tapered to a point from far below, at the lower part nar- 

 rowed and channelled, inner ones broadest, sometimes 

 slightly curled at the lower edges. Crown naiTow, scarcely 

 wider than the tube, 4 times shorter than the segments of 

 the limb, from which it is entirely detached. Filaments ex- 

 tremely slender. Anthers orange-yellow, very slender. 

 ^/igTna a small head. Germen short, elliptical, triangular: 

 ovula 8-10 in each cell, oblong, pointing upwards, attached 

 to the lower angle of the cells in two ranks. 



