healthy offsets. The original plant was sent to Prof. 
Morren by Dr. A. Glaziou of Rio Janeiro, and is presumably 
a native of Brazil. 
Descr.—Acaulescent. Leaves about sixteen in a tuft, 
lorate, shortly acuminate, sheathing at the base, three feet 
long, five inches wide, nearly glabrous above, white fur- 
furaceous beneath ; spines at the centre of the leaf three 
lines apart and straight, the lowermost decurved, the 
uppermost upcurved. Peduncle nearly a foot long; bracts 
dentate, the lower imbricate, with a crimson, elliptic, in- 
flated sheath and a green, ovate-acuminate blade, the 
uppermost rosulate, ovate, crimson, five inches long, two 
and a quarter inches wide; spike oblong, five inches long, 
two inches wide. Calyx rigid, white, lepidote outside ; 
lobes four lines long, suborbicular, concave, shortly awned. 
Corolla shortly exserted, pale green; petals seven lines 
long, a line and a half wide, narrowly oblong, emarginate, 
with two fimbriate scales at the base. Stamens inserted 
about half-way up the corolla; anthers oblong, mucronate, 
about twice as long as the filaments. Style shortly three- 
lobed. Fruit three- to six-angled, white lepidote, green 
below, pale rose and pyramidal above, an inch and a 
quarter long, crowned by the spreading awns of the per- 
sistent sepals.—C. H. Wricur. 
Fig, 1, portion of calyx and pistil; 2, portion of corolla laid open ; 3, anther ; 
4, apex of style; 5, whole plant :—1-4, enlarged ; 5, much reduced. fet. 
