unheated frame, along with Cape bulbs. One of them 
flowered for the first time in July, 1899, and from it 
the accompanying figure was made. It ripened a few 
seeds. 
Deser.—Stem (not developed as yet in the Kew indi- 
vidual) two to four feet high, simple or branched. Leaves 
a yard long, by an inch broad towards the base, spreading 
and recurved, linear-subulate, acuminate, rigid, thickly 
coriaceous, concave ventrally, rounded dorsally, deep 
bright green, with white filiferous margins, the threads an 
inch long. Scape with panicle six feet high, stout, erect. 
Panicle narrow, branched at the base ; rhachis and branches 
stout, strict, terete, rose-purple. Flowers sub-erect, an 
inch long, fascicled in bracts along the rhachis and 
branches; bracts up to an inch long, herbaceous, ovate, 
acuminate, green with broad, thin, white or red margins ; 
pedicels up to an inch long, rose-purple. Perianth bright 
rose-red, articulate on the pedicel by a short, contracted, 
solid base, cylindric, or narrowly campanulate; segments 
linear-oblong, obtuse; tips spreading, outer concolorous, 
or very narrowly bordered with yellow, inner golden-yellow 
within. Stamens included, filaments with nearly straight, 
slender tips; anthers linear-oblong, dorsifixed. Ovary 
ovoid, narrowed into the rather slender style; stigma 
minutely three-lobed.—J. D. H. | 
Fig. 1, front, and 2, dorsal view of portion of base of a and stamen; 
a of perianth and pistil; all enlarged:—4, reduced figure of the whole 
