scape is erect, taller than the leaves, occasionally divided, 
and bears, for the most part, 3 fascicles of flowers. The 
outer spathes are occasionally foliaceous, the inner are 
rounded at the end, and bordered with membrane, and the 
innermost are quite membranous and transparent. The 
flowers are pale yellow, with a little heart-shaped, brownish 
spot at the base of each. The ovarium is glandular. 
Occasionally this plant assumes a much dwarfer habit, 
not exceeding 3 or 4 inches in height; the leaves become 
stiffer and recurved, the spathes larger, and the scapes do 
not bear more than one fascicle of flowers, and are over- 
topped by the leaves. In this state it is our variety 8: 
we have wild specimens from the neighbourhood of Val- 
paraiso. 
Chile abounds in this genus, of which we possess 
many unpublished species; among them there is one that 
resembles this in many respects, and which may be con- 
founded with it. We therefore avail ourselves of the 
present opportunity of noticing and distinguishing it under 
the name of S. flexuosum, with the following character :— 
S. flexuosum ; scapo terete, foliis rigidis lineari-ensiformibus glaberrimis 
scapo mult) brevioribus, spathis exterioribus zequalibus acuminatis ; interi- 
oribus membranaceis, rachi simplici flexuosä polystachyá ovariisque tomen- 
tosis. 
. This is a native of the country about Conception, where - 
it flowers in October. It grows from a foot to a foot and 
a half in height, without any appearance of branching. _. 
J. L. 
