where it has frequently been in flower. Here, as in its 
home where Booth found it flowering on November 2nd, 
it produces the flowers very late in the year. 
Deser.—A perennial and glabrous herb with a short 
rhizome producing stout tomentose roots. Leaves few in a 
rosette, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, more or less acuminate, 
shortly narrowed into the petiole, ten to fifteen inches 
long, five to six inches broad, firm, green, mid-rib dis- 
appearing in the upper part, secondary nerves about eight 
on each side with three tertiary nerves between them and 
scanty transverse veins; petiole broad, three to four inches 
long. Spike peduncled, cylindric, dense, three to four 
inches long, three-quarters to over one inch in diameter ; 
peduncle naked, four to nine inches long; bracts subulate, 
one-half to three-quarters of an inch long, horizontally 
spreading, the uppermost barren and gathered into a 
dense terminal tuft. Perigone somewhat fleshy, about one- 
third of an inch long, lurid green; tube cylindric, one 
quarter of an inch long; lobes rather spreading, con- 
cave, rounded, almost hooded, not quite half as long as 
the tube, with crisp margins. Anthers sessile in the 
throat of the corolla, oblong, a twelfth of an inch long, 
yellow. Ovary globose-ellipsoid, three-celled, with three 
ovules in each cell; style clavate-cylindric, triangular in 
the upper part, a sixth of an inch long; stigma minutely 
three-lobed. Berry globose-ellipsoid, half an inch long, 
dark brown, when dry, slightly pruinose, one-seeded. 
Seed ovoid, not quite half an inch long ; endosperm bony. 
Embryo cylindric, extending obliquely from the small 
depressed circular embryotegium through the centre of the 
seed.—Orrto Srapr. 
Fig. 1, flower seen from above; 2, perigone, cut open; 3, pistil; 4, a whole 
plant :—1-3 enlarged, 4 reduced. 
