fariously imbricate, quite horizontal, deltoid-ovate, acumi- 
nate, pungent, deep shining green, quite smooth and glabrous, 
upper surface nearly flat, under convex with a slight keel, 
margins thick and flattened, the edges of the margin as well 
as the keel beyond the middle are minutely serrulate. Raceme 
spiciform, a foot ‘long; peduncle and rachis stout, cylindric, 
slightly compressed towards the base, light-brown, glaucous, 
with two or three scattered ovate-lanceolate bracts. Flowers 
Jax, very numerous, erect, one-third inch long, greenish- 
_ white ; bracteole deltoid, much exceeding the very short pedi- 
cel, appressed to the perianth, greenish-white. Perianth-tube 
cylindric-oblong, light green, almost terete ; limb of six short 
broad obovate obscurely two-lobed and erose segments. 
Stamens included, unequal; anthers shortly oblong. Ovary 
subcylindric, style curved.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Back, and 2, front, of a leaf; 3, transverse section of do.; 4, flower 
pedicel and bracteole; 5, vertical section of perianth :—all magnified. 
