referred to the genus are regarded by Mr. Bentham as the — 
type of his new genus, Notosceptrum. 
A coloured drawing which Leichtlin has sent us of the — 
plant as grown at Baden-Baden shows a more robust — 
habit than the English-grown examples, and a tinge of red 
in the flower which they do not get in our less sunny and 
more humid climate. a 
Drscr. Acaulescent. Rootstock short, cylindrical, with 
numerous fleshy root-fibres. Leaves aggregated in a dense 
basal rosette, ensiform, acuminate, three or four inches broad 
at the clasping base, an inch or an inch and a half broada 
foot above it, tapering gradually into a long point, green _ 
on both surfaces, moderately firm in texture, the sides 
inflexed all the way up from midway between the midrib — 
and edge, the margin obscurely denticulate. Peduwnele stout, 
erect, terete, two or three feet long, furnished with a few 
much-reduced leaves. Flowers in a very dense cylindrical — 
raceme half a foot or a foot long; pedicels very short; 
bracts ovate, scariose, two or three times as long as the — 
pedicels, Perianth cylindrical, bright yellow, or tinged with 
red under an inch long ; segments very short, semi-orbicular. 
Stamens and style much exserted.—J. G. Baker. | 
Fig. 1, A flower cut through vertically ; 2, anthers; 3, stigmatose apex of the : 
style; 4, horizontal section of the ovary, ad/ enlarged ; 6, section of a Jeaf, from 
near the base, natural size. : “eg 
