at Palermo in the year 1877, and as it produces copious 
bulbille, is easily propagated. The Kew plant, from 
which the drawing was made, and from which my descrip- 
tion is entirely drawn up, was received from St. Peters- 
burg in 1887, and flowered for the first time in the 
Cactus-house at Kew in November, 1891. 
Desor. Acaulescent. Leaves a dozen or more in a 
rosette, lanceolate, much recurved, coriaceous but not 
rigid, rather wavy, about a foot long, two inches or two 
inches and a half broad at the middle, bright green and 
smooth on both sides, scarcely pungent at the tip, margined 
with small deltoid prickles. Peduncle straight, wandlike, 
three or four feet long, bearing only three or four small 
ovate bract leaves. Panicle rhomboid, shorter than the 
peduncle; branches erecto-patent, the lower under a foot 
long ; each node bearing usually a single drooping flower 
and a bulblet ; pedicels very short; bracts deltoid, very 
small. Ovary cylindrical, green, densely pubescent, an 
inch long. Perianth segments oblong, above an inch 
long, the three outer broader than the three inner, pubes- 
cent and tinged with“green on the outside. Stamens 
shorter than the segments of the perianth; filament much 
swollen at the middle.’ Style dilated and deeply three- 
lobed below the middle, overtopping the anthers.—J. G. 
Baker, 
Fig. 1, A single stamen ; j es 
heducnd, gic 8 sew 2, style; both enlarged’; 3, whole plant, much 
