authority of Mr. Wilson Saunders’s garden for the name this 
plant bears. 
Descr. Stem very short. Leaves few, spreading, fifteen to 
twenty inches long, by two and a half inches broad, acumi- 
nate and keeled beneath towards the tip, minutely serrulate, 
scaberulous above, very glaucous, thick and hard, contracted 
into a flat thick petiole an inch broad. Scape four feet high, 
as thick as the middle finger below, and as well as the inflo- 
rescence of a bright red-purple colour. Panicle two feet long, 
slender, inclined, with few lax spreading simple branches bear- 
ing distant fascicles of two to five flowers ; bracts.several to each 
fascicle of flowers, three quarters to one and a quarter inches 
long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, spreading, membranous, pale. 
Flowers two and a half inches long, drooping, on slender pedicels 
half to three-quarters inch long. Ovary one inch long, obtusely 
3-gonous, dark red-purple, 6-grooved. “Perianth tubular ; seg- 
ments linear, slightly dilated at the rather spreading acute tip, 
dark blood-red below and on the midrib, the rest very bright 
verdigris green. Stamens nearly as long as the perianth, fila- 
ments dilated above the base; anthers linear-oblong. Style 
rather longer than the stamens, base conical ; stigma obscurely 
3-lobed.—/. D. H. | 
Fig. 1, Top of ovary with stamens and style:—magnified. 
