however, is flat and broad, tapering a little at the base, where 
they are round, hard, and woody. The flat part is remarkably 
thick and leathery, from one to two feet long, and about two 
and a half-or three inches wide, of a rich deep green, with 
large crenatures along the margin, from which it gradually 
thickens towards the midrib which is prominent from the base 
tothe point. The flowers are produced at the first or second 
sinus from the apex of the leaf, or shoot, on which several 
buds make their appearance, but only one of them comes to 
maturity. The tube is round, and about four inches long, 
slightly curved and angular, with three or four series of ele- 
vated, ovate-acuminate, brownish green scales on the outside, 
each of which are similar in form and colour but vary in size, 
the inner ones being small, and the outer ones so large as to 
resemble the sepals from which they are scarcely to be dis- 
tinguished. The buds are long and much pointed, of a 
brownish pink colour. The flowers are large and extremely 
handsome, being about five inches in diameter, and of a pale 
cream colour. The sepals are linear lanceolate acute, about four 
inches long and three-fourths of an inch wide, ranged in two 
rows of six, the one alternating with the other, and the inner 
being somewhat paler than the outer, which is a deep brown. 
The petals are eighteen in number, arranged in three rows, 
similar to the sepals. They are ovate oblong, somewhat 
pointed and taper towards the base, which is thick and fleshy, 
but otherwise they are of a thin delicate texture, about three 
and a half inches long and upwards of an inch broad. The 
inner row is rather shorter than the rest but similar in every 
other respect. The Jilaments are very numerous and about 
two-thirds the length of the petals, to which many of them 
are attached round the mouth of the tube. The greater 
number of them, however, are placed along the throat of the 
tube, which causes them to be of unequal lengths. All are of 
the same pale cream colour as the petals, with a slight greenish 
tinge internally. The anthers are ovate, obtuse, deep yellow. : 
The style is very conspicuous, being about the thickness of a 
straw and as long as the petals, with eight recurved feathery 
looking stigmas half an inch long. The ovarium is at the 
bottom of the tube and is comparatively small, yellowish green, 
apparently five-angled. : 
. The plant is easily cultivated in rich loamy soil mixed 
with small bits of charcoal instead of sand, and increases freely 
by cuttings of the leaves or shoots, which not unfrequently emit 
roots at their extremity. It requires to be grown in a warm 
greenhouse, and to be placed in a situation where it may have 
plenty of light. 
