know very well that there are Botanists in this country 
who think them far too transcendental. 
Leaves two, spreading upon the ground, about nine 
inches long, roundish-oblong, fleshy, very smooth, obtuse, 
tapering at the base, and a little stained with red. Head 
(which is a depressed raceme) somewhat sessile in the 
bosom of the leaves, containing about thirty flowers, de¬ 
pressed, with a diameter of about two inches; surrounded 
by large ovate, acuminated, imbricated, smooth bracteae. 
.Flowers, together with the pedicels, about an inch long, 
supported by a bractea, which is ovate-acuminate, and 
green at the end. ^Estivation imbricated in a double row. 
Perianthium funnel-shaped; tube round, fleshy, smooth, 
white, filled with an abundance of a bitterish liquid honey; 
limb exactly 6-parted, with ovate obtuse blunt white seg¬ 
ments, which are membranous at the edge, green in the 
middle, a little shorter than the stamens, and pushed in¬ 
wards at the base : the inner segments are the narrowest. 
Stamens 6, fleshy, united by their bases into a ring crown¬ 
ing the mouth of the tube, erect, before expansion con¬ 
niving ; filaments green, subulate ; anthers facing inwards, 
adnate, 2-celled; the cells opening lengthwise. Pollen 
yellow, under a very strong lens appearing to cohere by a 
few threads ; granules minute, smooth, oblong; when dry 
depressed with a pit in the middle: being moistened, be¬ 
coming roundish-oblong, with a smooth surface, and no pit; 
becoming, if they do not burst, wrinkled, but not divided 
into areolae. Ovarium superior, obovate, hexangular, 
3-celled, many-seeded, lacunose between the cells; ovules 
small, inserted on the placenta in two or three rows, hori¬ 
zontal. Style subulate, the length of stamens, spirally 
twisted, with three furrows. Stigma a simple dot. 
