binations of colour in the foliage of plants. In a notice of 
the plant in the “ Gardeners’ Chronicle,” cited above at 
p- 44, the leaves are inadvertently described as dull green, 
and mottled with creamy orange on the under surface, and 
as having green veins. | 
I am indebted to Messrs. Veitch for the opportunity of 
naming and figuring this magnificent plant, which flowered 
in his establishment in January of the present year. 
Descr. Stem short, somewhat woody below, quite 
glabrous, cylindric, as thick as the middle finger, pale 
green. Leaves in very close-set imbricating distichous 
pairs, of which one is small, the other very large, the pairs 
alternating in respect of their sizes, giving a fan-shaped 
appearance to the foliage; all are sessile, pale green above, 
suffused with yellow in patches, and blood-red beneath ; 
larger leaves twelve to eighteen inches long by two and a 
half to three inches broad, narrowly falcately oblong, re- 
curved or subrevolute, acuminate, unequal-sided below, 
quite entire or serrated, somewhat keeled beneath, the 
lateral halves ascending from the midrib with recurved 
margins, midrib and nerves beneath very stout. Flowers 
in fasciculate leafy cymes three to four inches long, at the 
axils of the leaves by which they are hid from above ; bracts 
many, yellow-green, or the lower green and red; flowers 
pedicelled. Sepals one to one and a half inch long, elliptic- 
ovate, long-acuminate, quite entire or serrate, pale yellow, 
midrib very thick. Corolla two to two and a half inches 
long, broadly tubular, swelling upwards, hairy, golden 
yellow streaked with red, mouth oblique; lobes subequal, 
short, rounded, concave. Filaments glabrous, united into 
a tube below. Disk-gland very large, semicircular. Ovary 
elongate-ovoid.—J. D. H., 
Fig. 1, Corolla laid open; 2 and 3, stan ens; 4, sti i 4 lavve disks 
gland :—all enlarged. © en ee eee 
