very thick, bi-convex; margins very narrowly scarious, 
denticulate. Peduncle short, stout, bearing a few short, 
erect leaves. Panicle pyramidal, eight feet high ; rhachis. 
stout ; branches and branchlets spreading or recurved, quite 
glabrous; bracts and bracteoles scarious, white, streaked with : 
red. lowers fascicled on the branchlets, shortly pedicelled, © 
nodding, green, pubescent. Ovary three-fourths of an inch 
long, cylindric. Perianth-tube rather longer and broader 
than the ovary; segments erect, linear-spathulate, green, 
with broad, yellow margins, yellow within; tips obtuse, 
spreading. Anthers linear, tips only exserted. Stigma 
capitellate, three-lobed.—/J/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, portion of margin of leaf; 2 and 3,anthers; 4, top of style and 
stigma : :—all enlarged ; 5, reduced view of whole plant. 
