New GARDEN PLANT. 
XIPHIDIUM giganteum ; foliis latissimis margine integerrimis 
acutis paniculá racemosá contractá multiflorá breviori- 
bus, rachi alté sulcatá pubescente ramulis omnibus sim- 
plicibus secundifloris, floribus albis glabris. 
Caraccas, His Grace the Duke of Northumberland. 
This flowered at Syon in October. It is a large Iris- 
like plant, with leaves more than two feet long, and 23 
„inches broad. When in flower it is nearly four feet high. 
The blossoms are small, white, smooth, and arranged in one- 
sided racemes, which closely cover the very strong axis 
of inflorescence. It is not a plant of sufficient beauty to 
deserve cultivation on that account ; but it is of considerable 
botanical interest as a new species of a genus little known to 
science. The examination of it has shewn that the cells of 
the ovary are opposite to the petals, as in other Lilyworts, 
and that it possesses no character.to distinguish it from that 
order, unless the fruit, which is unknown to us, should fur- 
nish one. | 
