rality of gardeners of the present day. It is greatly to be 
desired now that such amateurs as are disposed to leave the 
beaten track of ordinary greenhouse and stove culture, 
should take up the culture of these and similar tribes, which 
would well repay all their care, and advance our knowledge 
of some of the most interesting and beautiful of our Colonial 
floras. 
Duscr. Scape two feet to three feet high, stout and erect. 
Leaves bifarious, one to one and a half feet long, three- 
fourths of an inch to one inch broad, linear-ensiform, 
gradually acuminate, dark green and glaucous. Spike dis- 
tichous, six inches to ten inches long, rather dense-flowered. 
Bracts narrow-lanceolate, the lowest six inches long, upper 
gradually shorter, all green and herbaceous, much exceeding 
the perianth-tube. Flowers four inches in diameter, broadly 
campanulate, brilliant scarlet, yellow-white and speckled 
with red at the very base of the limb. Perianth-tube one 
and a-half inch long, white externally ; segments obovate, 
all nearly similar in shape, but the lower three one-third 
smaller than the upper, all obtuse and rounded at the tip, 
with a distinct notch, and a prominent point in the sinus; 
the two lower lateral darker than the others, with a trans- 
verse pale band spotted with red about the middle, and a 
white lanceolate stripe running from it towards the tip. 
Filaments and style scarlet, anthers natrow, two-thirds of an 
inch long, red-purple ; stigmas slender, recurved.—/. D. H. 
