Aloe; and the subject of this article had pale green flowers 

 with little colouring, either of scarlet or blue, in bracteoe, 

 calyx^ or corolla. In foliage and /*orw of parts it resembles I 



perfectly the wild specimens of T.Jiexuosa preserved in the | 



Banksian Ilerbarinm. • 



Our drawing was made from Mr. Colvill's collection. 

 Native of the West Indies and South America. 



Parasitical. Roots filiform, long, rigid. Leaves chiefly 

 radical, linear-lanceolate, broader at the base, sessile, in- 

 flated, embracing, entire at the edge, loose, bent back at 

 the point, striated, membranous, greenish white beneath, 

 somewhat tomentose or mealy, with very minute peltate hol- 

 lowed scales which are surrounded with a striated hyaline 

 edge and may be distinctly seen with a lens. Stem or Scape 

 longer than the leaves, two or three feet high, feeble, round, 

 with alternate, lanceolate, acute, red edges, the lowermost 

 ending in a linear leaflet ; somewhat divided at the top, and 

 terminated by the spikes. Spikes 2 or 3, solitary, long, 

 feeble, with a three-cornered flexuose rachis ; the florets 

 alternate, distichous, and remote. Bractece or Spathcc of 

 one leaf, lanceolate, concave, striate. * Calyx 3-parted, tri- 

 angular at the base, persistent, with erect coloured lacinioe. 

 Petals 3, linear, longer than the calyx, reflexed at the 

 point, scarlet, or blue (or pale green)' Filaments 6, the 

 alternate ones a little shorter than the others, inserted into 

 the receptacle, filiform, nearly the length of the petals. 

 Anthers ovate, bifid at the base, whitish. Germcn ovate, 

 triangular. Style filiform. Stigma trifid. Capsule elon- 

 gate, cylindrical, drawn off* to a point, 3-cornered, with 

 each angle a lUtle dilated, 3-celliid, 3-valved, inside shining 

 black. »^eec?o» pappose. Ptt/^p/^* capillary, yellowish. Swartz. 



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