berland at Sion House, where as well as at Kew, D. Smithii 
has been long in cultivation; it flowers in winter or early 
spring in both establishments. ; 
Descr. Sfem fifteen feet high, slender, hitherto quite 
unbranched, cylindric, almost smooth. eaves three to four 
feet. long, forming a spreading rosette on the very crown of 
the stem, slightly recurved, not waved, narrowly ensiform, 
broadest beyond the middle, acuminate, narrowed towards 
the base before dilating at the insertion, broadest part two 
and a half to three and a half inches in diameter, narrowest 
about one inch, bright green, striated; midrib indistinct 
above, very strong and prominent beneath; lateral nerves 
reduced to innumerable striations; margin thinly cartilagi- 
nous. Inflorescence of several subsessile suberect branched 
panicles two feet long, glabrous; rachis and branches stout, 
terete, green; bracts two to five inches long; bracteoles— 
small, crowded, ovate, acute. Flowers in crowded fascicles in 
the axils of the panicle, and terminating short branchlets, 
subsessile. Perianth pale yellow, half-inch long; tube 
cylindric, base conical ; segments as long as the tube, linear- 
oblong, with acute incurved tips. Filaments as long as the 
perianth-segments, rather stout; anthers broadly ovate, cells 
diverging at the base. Style slender, equalling the stamens ; 
stigma peltate, 3-lobed.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Reduced figure of whole plant; 2, portion of panicle, and 3 of 
leaf :—both of the natural size ; 4, flower :—magnified, : 
