Gardens, who sent living plants to Kew in 1883, which 

 flower in the winter months. 



Desce. Eootstoch stout, short, creeping; young stolons 

 clothed with sheathing scales. Radical leaves a foot long 

 and upwards by one to two inches broad, elliptic-lanceolate, 

 acuminate at both ends, flat, striated and three-nerved, 

 quite smooth, bright green, narrowed into a distinct 

 petiole which is sometimes three to four inches long, at 

 others much shorter, margins, nerves, and slender midrib 

 perfectly smooth. Flowering scapes longer or shorter than 

 the leaves, stout, erect, obtusely trigonous, naked or with 

 one or more acuminate appressed sheaths bearing three or 

 more superposed erect peduncled rounded brown cymes 

 one to two inches broad, with divaricate branchlets ; bracts 

 very slender, erect, hardly sheathing below, longer or 

 shorter than the peduncles of the cymes. Spikelets one- 

 sixth to a quarter of an inch long, each with terminal male 

 flowers, and female flowers below, sessile on the short 

 branchlets of the cymes, divaricate ; bract at the base 

 of the spikelet gibbously ampulliform, with a narrow neck 

 and small truncate mouth, smooth, terete, punctate. 

 Glumes ovate-lanceolate, subacute, nerves very faint, quite 

 smooth. Stamens three ; anthers slender, as long as the 

 filaments. Utricle elliptic - ovate, trigonous, perfectly 

 smooth, narrowed into a slender beak half as long as itself; 

 mouth minute, truncate. Nut trigonous, rhomboidly ovate, 

 perfectly smooth ; stigma filiform, as long as the slender 

 style.— J. D. E. 



Fig. 1, Section of scape ; 2, portion of cyme ; 3, spikelets with bract ; 4, glume 

 of feui. fl. ; 5, male fl. and glume ; 6, utricle and stigmas ; 7, nut with style and 

 stigmas : — all enlarged. 



