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seed was moist; and on a portion of the exterior being acci- 
dentally rubbed off, a silvery membranous coat, like that of the 
bulb-seeds of Crinum, was exhibited. Our old plant has for the 
last two years produced fresh leaves and a flower-stem about 
every four months. It has sent off several suckers from the 
portion of the root-stock which produces the fibres (if so the 
thick roots I have described may be called). If the flower-stem 
be kept in water, possibly some of the capsules may swell a little, 
so as to exhibit the number of the rudimentary ovules. The 
corollas are deciduous, as in Clivia, to which I certainly think 
the plant nearer than to Vallota. The flowers expand about two 
at a time daily, or in two days or longer periods, but remain so 
long as to form, along with the others also expanded, a fine head 
for from two weeks to a month, according to temperature.” 
Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified. 
