^tamells than any known sj)ecies. e do not despair of seeing 
this plant ere long in our greenhouses. 
Descr. Root a creeping caudeXy thicker than the finger. 
Leaves chiefly radical, or from the very' base of the stem, and 
fasciculate, sheathing, equitant, linear-ensiform, acuminate, striated, 
quite glabrous, shorter than the stem, much tinged with brown- 
piirple. Stem erect, herbaceous, angled and furrowed, two to 
tour feet high, bearing three or four leaves^ similar to those of 
the stem, the uppenuost less equitant. This stem branches 
above, and becomes a panicle, dichotomously divided, with a 
small leaf-hke bractea at the forks, clothed with a dense dark-red 
brown or sooty, coloured tomentum, which, when seen under a 
niicroscope, is found to consist of beautiful plumose hairs. The 
ultimate branches, or peduncles of the panicle, bear a ^ike of 
^ge, tomentose, lemon-coloured jlowers, the lower portion of 
the flower and the ovary being covered with the same fuliginose 
tomentum as the panicle, but which gradually becomes more 
scattered and inconspicuous towards the upper portion of the 
flower. Ovary globose. Perianth with the tube slightly curved, 
scarcely an inch long, a little dilated upwards; the mouth very 
oblique; the limb of six spreading lanceolate acuminate segments 
(clothed within, as well as without, with pale yellow tomentum), 
which are much longer, especially the upper ones, than the tube. 
Lilammts subulate, as long as the segments of the perianth, 
their bases united into a membrane, or ring, at the mouth of 
the tube Jnthers small, oblong, pale-coloured, tipped with a 
smdl blunt mucro. Style longer than the corolla. Stigma 
clubbed. 
