ripe capsule; but seeing that the agreement between the 
two is in all other respects complete, we have thought it 
safest not to originate another species upon so slight (and 
perhaps uncertain) a difference. In the Lambertian Her- 
barium there is a sample collected in South America clearly 
belonging to the same species with our plant, and there 
the germen is furred. 
Drawn at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's 
Road. Lately introduced from the Berlin Botanic Garden. 
Continues in successive bloom for three or four months 
together in the greenhouse. 
A fibrous-rooted perennial plant. Leaves narrowly en- 
siform, with rough edges. Stem a foot and a half high or 
more, linearly foliaceous, one-jointed ; branches (two? or 
more) rising parallelly from the sheath at the joint of the 
stem. Spathes terminal, lanceolate, compressed, many- 
flowered, outer valves herbaceous, inner membranous; pe- 
duncles of the flower even with the spathe, of the fruit much 
longer. Corolla hexapetaloidly parted, hypocrateriform, 
segments of one length, cuneately ligulate, flat, mucronate, 
3 outer ones the broadest and villous below on the outside ; 
urceolus about one third shorter than the rotately expanded 
limb, which decays by rolling inwards long before the 
urceolate portion. Stamens nearly three times shorter than 
the urceolus of the corolla, monadelphous ; filamentous 
shaft tubular, bright yellow, densely bearded at the lower 
part, nearly naked at the upper, 3-toothed, teeth subulate, 
spreading, short, anther-bearing : anthers incumbent. Stig- 
mas 3, subulate, spreading, convolutely channelled and 
eroded at the top, alternating with the anthers, three times 
shorter than the green filiform style. Germen small, ob- 
ovate, hairy. Capsule round, nearly smooth, many-seeded. 
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