raceme in P. Andreana, Linden (B. M. t. 6480), to a panicle 
in P. alta, Hassk. (t. 6606); the latter species differing 
from P. spathacea in having unarmed leaves and scarlet 
flowers. 
Descr.—A stemless plant. Leaves patent or the lower 
recurved, linear, acuminate, the largest sixteen inches long 
and one inch broad, at first furfuraceous on the upper 
surface, at length glabrous, with persistent, white scales 
on the lower surface ; marginal spines curved upwards, and 
almost parallel with the leaf-margin. Panicle simply 
branched, nearly two feet high, on a peduncle one foot | 
high; bracts boat-shaped, acuminate, pale rose. Sepals — 
ovate, very acuminate, much longer than the pedicels, pale 
rose, green at the apex, one inch long. Petals obovate, 
obtuse, convolute, without a basal scale, dull blue, an inch © 
and a quarter long. Ovary ovoid; style three times as 
long as the ovary; stigma short, spirally twisted.—C. H. 
Wright. : 
Fig. 1, leaf-margin; 2, scale from the under surface of leaf; 3, petal; 
4, stamen ; 9, pistil; 6, sketch of entire plant :—1 to 5 enlarged, 6 reduced, 
