while, according to the figure of the A. filifera in the ' Revue 

 Horticole,' the corolla-lobes of that plant are shorter. 



Descr. Stem none. Leaves forming a low subhemisphe- 

 rical mass ; lower spreading and recurved ; upper suherect, 

 about one foot long, narrow linear-ensiform, with red sub- 

 pungent apices, dilated at the base and slightly contracted 

 above it ; with irregular longitudinal broad white bands on 

 both surfaces, and white edges, from which are given off 

 woolly recurved flattened broad filaments, one to three 

 inches long. Scape strict, erect, about six feet high, lower 

 third covered with numerous erect or recurved subulate red- 

 brown bracts, two inches long and upwards. Spike rather 

 slender, very many-flowered, cylindric. Flowers, including 

 the stamens, three and a half inches long, green, with yellow 

 anthers, rather dense, in fascicles of two or three, each fas- 

 cicle subtended by a filiform red flexuous bract. Pedicels 

 very short, with very small broad bracteoles. Ovary cylin- 

 dric, glabrous. Perianth tube as long and broad as the 

 ovary, lobes as long as the tube, linear, acute, re volute. 

 Filaments strict, subulate, one inch long ; anthers nearly as 

 long, linear-elongate. Stigma obtusely three-lobed. /. B. H. 



Fig. 1. Eeduced figure of entire plant. 2. Leaf, nat. size. 3. Flowers, 

 nat. size. 



