same with A. dealbata, Lemaire, a plant I have no means of 

 comparing it with. 



Descr. Stem in our specimen very short or none. Leaves 

 three and a half to four feet long, very numerous, the central 

 erect, the others recurved, narrow ensiform, an inch to an 

 inch and a half broad, rather convex on both surfaces, 

 sharply but minutely pectinately toothed, dull glaucous- 

 green, striated. Scape ten and a half feet long, flowering 

 portion sharply recurved, and quite pendulous; lower part 

 most densely clothed with subulate, ensiform, curved, falcate, 

 secund bracts. Bracts all similar, and with a similar curva- 

 ture, the lowest one foot long, the upper gradually smaller. 

 Inflorescence a very dense, cylindric, pendulous spike, five 

 feet long, green, dotted with the brown anthers. Floivering- 

 bracts subulate, longer than the flowers. Flowers sessile, 

 pale green, in pairs, an inch and three-quarters long, exclu- 

 sive of the stamens; ovary cylindric, rather shorter than the 

 campanulate, six-cleft perianth, whose lobes are short, ob- 

 tuse, concave, and nerveless. Filaments as long as the 

 flowers, stout, strict; anthers linear-oblong, bright red-brown. 

 —J.D.H. 



Pig. 1. Portion of scape and bracts. 2. Upper portion of leaf. 

 Margin of leaf. 4. Flowers. 5. Transverse section of ovarv :— all 



3. 



but 

 3 and 4 of the natural size. 



