Descr. Shrub erect (with us about six feet high, and 
still making long and vigorous shoots), branches ascending, 
brown, streaked but scarcely warted, towards the extre- 
mities green, and while in flower shortly pubescent in 
continuous lines. Leaves (three inches and a half long, 
seven lines broad) spathulato-lanceolate, much attenuated 
at the base, tumid at the point of their insertion, where 
three fasciculi of vessels enter, two going along the mar- 
gins forming somewhat cartilaginous borders, and meeting 
the third, the central rib at the apex, where they together 
form a short, stout, sphacelated mucro ;—central rib giving 
off on each side, at unequal distances from the base, a 
lateral rib; all the nerves and the cartilaginous edges 
having reticulated branches, which with the nerves them- 
selves are immersed, and little conspicuous in the recent, 
but prominent and very apparent in the dried plant. Fas- 
eveulr axillary, shortly stalked, with many ovate, flesh- 
coloured, imbricated, deciduous bracteas. © Flowers very 
numerous, giving the whole of the preceding year’s shoots 
the appearance of a leafy, interrupted spike. Pedicels 
lax, hairy. Perianth glabrous, shorter than the pedicel, 
like it, and every part of the flower, except the anthers, 
white, perfumed slightly. Hypogynous gland minute. An- 
thers yellow, sessile in’ the apices of the perianth ; pollen 
granules triangular. Pistil longer than the perianth ; stigma 
conical ; style filiform ; germen glabrous. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Floret: magnified. 
