of 4-5 inches abovethe dilated base, one eighth of aninch thick 
in the centre, rigidly coriaceous in texture, concave on the face, 
pale green and hardly at all glaucous when mature, the margin 
armed with close deltoid upcurved horny teeth about one eighth 
of an inch long. Scape stout, twice as long as the leaves, hidden 
by the adpressed linear bract-like leaves. Inflorescence a dense 
spike, longer than the leaves; flowers in pairs; primary bracts 
lanceolate, with a long cusp; bracteoles small, lanceolate. 
Ovary oblong. Perianth green, funnel-shaped, two inches long, 
with a distinct funnel-shaped tube half an inch long; seg- 
ments oblong-lanceolate, permanently ascending, nearly an 
inch long. Stamens inserted near the throat of the tube; fila- 
ments subulate two and a half inches long; anthers red, an 
inch long. Style three and a half inches long, stigma capitate. 
J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1. The whole plant, much reduced; 2, a single leaf, much reduced ; 3, 
portion of the edge of the leaf, with teeth, natural size; 4, pair of flowers, with 
bract and bracteoles, natural size. : 
