Our specimens were received from the rich collection of 
W. W. Saunders, Esq., late of Reigate, raised from seed. 
Descr. Derisely tufted, perfectly glabrous throughout. 
Roots of stout fleshy tortuous fibres. Leaves distichous at the 
base, and then clothed with long membranous sheaths, grassy, 
each six to eighteen inches long, a quarter to half an inch 
broad, erect and recurved, acuminate, soft, with a distinct 
midrib and many slender nerves, margin quite entire, rather 
glaucous beneath. Scape shorter than the leaves, very slender, 
erect, with two or three sharp angles or narrow wings. 
Raceme two to four inches long, 6—16-flowered, erect or 
slightly nodding, rachis compressed, bracts linear-subulate, 
green, shorter than the curved pedicels, F/owers campanulate, 
pale rose-red, one-third inch in diameter. Perianth-segments 
ovate, subacute, rather fleshy, nerveless. Stamens very short ; 
filaments broadly orbicular-obovate, fleshy ; anther sessile 
on the filament, narrower than it is, ovate, acute, cells diverg- 
ing. Ovary globose, 3-celled; style strict, stigma minute ; 
ovules six to ten in each cell. Berry size of a pea, with few 
compressed brown very hard seeds ; testa extremely thin, ad- 
herent to the horny albumen.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, the same cut vertically; 3, stamens; 4, tranverse 
section of ovary; 5, ditto entire; 6, fruit:—all but 6 magnified. 
