* 
Capt. Babington, from Sierra Leone. The late Mr. Herbert can 
hardly have seen a fair or well-cultivated specimen or he would 
not have cavilled at the original name and changed it to C. pe- 
tiolatum. 
Descr. Build very large, a fully grown one being as big as a 
child’s head. Leaves one to two and even three feet long, four 
inches wide, lingulate, broadest above the middle, obsoletely 
striated, but having a strong central rib and two depressed 
lines between the costa and margin. Scape two to three feet 
long, plano-convex, erect. Spyatha two-valved, ligulate. Umbel 
of from five to thirteen sessile flowers. Tube of the perianth 
eight to nine inches long, terete, green. Flowers six to seven 
inches across, inclined. Sepals broad, ovato-concave, white, 
tinged with yellow-green externally. Filaments four to five 
inches long, declined, then ascending. dnthers one inch long, 
dark-purple. Ovary oval. Style filiform, curved upwards. 
Stigma obscurely three-lobed. 
