ginal teeth on the leaves, a compressed peduncle, and a 
short, campanulate perianth-tube. 
For the specimen from which the accompanying figure | 
was made, and for a sketch of the whole plant, I am in- 
debted to Commendatore Hanbury, F.L.S., who flowered 
it in his renowned garden of Pal. Orengo, La Mortola, in 
February of this year. I have also received a photograph 
of the whole plant through the kindness of Miss Wilmott, 
of Gt. Warley, Essex, with which Mr. Hanbury’s sketch 
given here, perfectly corresponds. 
Descr.—Stemless (as grown at La Mortola). Leaves two — 
to three feet long, very numerous, all radical, sub-erect and 
incurved, tapering from a compressed base seven inches 
broad to an acute tip, section above the base biconvex, 
about an inch thick, and across the middle plano-convex, 
pale green, margins red, armed with rather distant 
short deltoid incurved red spines about one-sixth of an — 
inch long, and as broad. Peduncle about a foot high, — 
terete, red-brown, naked, branching above into a panicle 
as long as the leaves ; branches of panicle rather distant, 
ascending, pale red-brown, lower a span long, girt at 
the very base by two short appressed bracts, an inner 
annular, and an outer broadly ovate acute, bearing above 
solitary acuminate bracts a quarter to a third of an inch 
long, of the colour of the branch. Flowers in short 
oblong racemes, three to four inches long, terminating 
the branches, crowded, pendulous ; pedicels about as long — 
as the flowers, very slender, erect with decurved tips} 
bracts like those on the branch, but narrower and paler: 
Perianth about an inch long, cylindric, straight or slightly 
curved, bright red in the lower half, golden-yellow in the 
upper; lobes very short, obtuse, recurved. Stamens 
shortly exserted, anthers dull yellow. Capsule two-thirds 
of an inch long, broadly oblong, obtuse at both ends, valves 
very coriaceous, transversely wrinkled. Seeds many, ODe — 
fifth of an inch long, oblong, surrounded by a hyaline — 
— wing.—J, D. H, 
‘ bg 1, Transverse section of a leaf towards the base; 2, upper part of a 
eaf; 3, portion of a panicle :—all of the nat. size; 4,a flower; 5, pistil : 
Both enlarged. 
