acumen, obliquely penninerved, full green above, paler beneath, 
the margin red. Pefiole auricled at the top. Scape reduced, 
very short, clothed with lax erect scales, red below and short, 
much elongated, striated, and membranaceous, and reddish- 
yellow above; these embrace the flowers, and persist with the 
fruit. Calyx (Endl.) or exterior perianth forming a long tube 
below, cut into three oblong, erect, membranaceous segments, 
white, tinged with yellow and rose, embracing the tube of the 
inner series, which is reduced to one large segment expanding 
into a rotundate pure white, plicately undulated /imé, yellow at 
the base. Filament broad, bearing one very large ovate pointed | 
anther, pomting downwards, deeply two-lobed, above which the 
filament is prolonged into one short ovate erect segment and 
two lateral spreading linear-oblong ones. On each side the base 
of the filament we find two subulate processes. Ovary inferior, 
cylindrical, a little downy. Style long, filiform, passing between 
the lobes of the anther, and terminating there in an infundibuli- 
form stigma. Capsules admirably represented in Pereira, two. 
or three in a cluster at the end of the short scaly stipes, scarcely 
two inches long, powerfully aromatic, ovato-lanceolate, acumi- 
nated, brown, striated (as if shrivelled), terminated by withered 
portions of the perianth. Seeds very hot and acrid. W. J. H. 
Cuxr. This plant, being a native of the tropics, requires a 
warm stove, and grows freely in a mixture of light loam and 
peat-soil. Like others of the family to which it belongs, it 
has a season of rest, which is indicated by the stem and leaves 
beginning to fade; water should then be sparingly given. In 
spring it should be repotted, in fresh soil. It is readily in- 
creased by division of the roots. J. 8. 
lig. 1. Flower from which the segments of the perianth are removed :—mag- 
nified, 
