New GARDEN PLANT. 
XIPHIDIUM giganteum ; foliis latissimis margine integerrimis 
acutis paniculä racemosä contractä multiflorà breviori- 
bus, rachi alté sulcatä 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 22 
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 alternate with 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. (A slip of the pen having caused this paragraph to 
express exactly the reverse of what was intended, it has been 
thought better to reprint it, than to publish a mere erratum.) 
