prominent scars of fallen leaves, tips decurved. Leaves scat 
tered, two to two and a half inches long, horizontal or ascend- 
ing, spindle-shaped, pointed, contracted at the base into a 
short, stout, swollen petiole, quite cylindric on a transverse 
section, succulent, terete, quite smooth, pale, very glaucous 
green, nerveless. Spike a foot long, terminal, slender, pen- 
dulous ; peduncle and rachis dark chestnut-brown, cylindric. 
Flowers two-thirds of an inch long, in scattered fascicles of 
three, spreading horizontally from the rachis and divaricating 
from one another, quite sessile. Calyx green, hemispheric, 
with two minute bracts at the base, shortly 5-toothed. 
Corolla-tube dull red-brown, half an inch long, tubular, with 
5-ribbed angles, contracted at the mouth; limb dull red- 
brown, a quarter of an inch in diameter, spreading and 
reflexed, 5-lobed ; lobes shallow, undulate, with a long subu- 
late point. Scales minute, orbicular, notched. Ovaries long, 
slender.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Whole plant :—diminished ; 2, flower and bracts on portion of 
rachis; 3, flower removed; 4, ovaries and scales :—all magnified. 
