90 
cinnabar colour, and the lateral lobes of the lip are obtuse 
not acute. 
144. ECHEANDIA terniflora. Orteg. dec. pl. p.90 Redout. liliacées, 6. t. 
313. (Conanthera Echeandia. Pers. syn. 1.370. Link € Otto Icones 
plant. rar. t. 3. Anthericum reflexum. Cav. ic. ii. t. 241.) 
“This singular plant was among a collection received by 
Sir Charles Lemon, Bart. M.P. in 1837, from Mr. John 
Rule, Superintendant of the Real del Monte Mines, Mexico, 
in the neighbourhood of which it is probably a native. It 
flowered in the greenhouse at Carclew in June 1839, and 
continued during July and August to send out a succession 
of five or six flowers daily. It promises to produce seeds 
by which there is every chance of its being increased. 
** Leaves radical, sheathing, nearly erect, of a glaucous 
green, linear-lanceolate acute, from 12 to 18 inches long, 
and rather more than an inch wide, diminishing to a long 
narrow point. The middle is somewhat fleshy and chan- 
nelled; the edges slightly undulated and recurved. The 
Flower-stem rises on one side from among the leaves, and 
attains the height of from three to four feet. It is round and 
branching, with a long lanceolate, acute, sheathing, pale 
green bract at the base of each branch. The flowers are 
of a golden yellow, produced in clusters, alternating with 
one another on the stem, and containing three, sometimes 
six, flowers in each ; issuing singly from among several small 
brownish ovate acuminate bracteas. Flower buds ovate-ob- 
long, pointed at both ends, greenish yellow. When they 
first make their appearance they are erect, but the day before 
opening they droop.  Pedicels of a pale green, about an 
‘inch long, round and slender, with a small joint near the 
base. Sepals nearly all of one length ; the three outer ones 
are more pointed, and narrower, than the rest, and have 
each three greenish veins down the centre. The inner sepals 
are oblong lanceolate, bluntish at the point, and with the 
outer ones taper very much towards the base. They are all 
more or less twisted and rolled back. "They open in the 
morning and remain expanded for about eight or ten hours, 
after which they gradually close up and decay. Filaments 
short, enlarging outwardly so as to Wave the appearance of 
being slightly bearded. -Anthers oblong, closely connected 
together, of a deeper yellow than the filaments and tapering 
