Desor. Trunk simple, erect, about half a foot long in 
the flowering specimen drawn. Leaves crowded ; petiole 
ascending, one and a half to three inches long, dilated and 
amplexicaul at the base; blade cordate-ovate, six to nine 
inches long, three to five inches broad, cuspidate, distinctly | 
costate from base to apex, marbled with irregular trans- 
verse bands of bright green and silvery grey in about equal 
proportions. lowers in a dense globose sessile head a 
couple of inches in diameter, surrounded on the outside by 
a few reduced leaves; pedicels very short; proper bracts 
large, scariose, oblong, cuspidate, clasping the lower part 
of the flowers. Perianth white, above an inch long, the 
lanceolate spreading segments rather shorter than the sub- 
cylindrical tube. Stamens inserted at the throat of the 
perianth-tube, rather shorter than the segments; anthers 
small, oblong, versatile, cream-white. Style finally pro- 
truded beyond the tip of the perianth-segments, obscurely 
three-lobed at the stigmatose tip.—J. G. Baker. 
_Fig. 1, A complete flower; 2, a stamen, viewed from the back; 3, a stamen, 
viewed from the tace :—adl enlarged. 
