. truly faperb. The outline in the third plate of this number, 
is intended to give our readers an idea of its general habit and 
“mode of growth. 
Particular Defeviption of the Same 
ROOT perennial, ftringy, fomewhat like that of the tawny 
Day-lily (Hemerocallis fulva); ftrings the thicknefs 
of the little finger, blunt at the extremity, extending 
horizontally, if not confined, to the diftance of 
many feet, 
LEAVES numerous, ftanding upright on their footftalks, 
about a foot in length, and four inches in breadth, 
ovato-oblong, coriaceous, fomewhat flefhy, rigid, 
{mooth, concave, entire on the edges, except on 
one fide towards the bafe, where they are more or 
lefs curled, on the upper fide of a deep green co- 
lour, on the under fide covered with a fine glaucous 
meal, midrib hollow above and yellowifh, veins 
unbranched, prominent on the infide, and impreffed 
on the outfide of the leaf, young leaves rolled up. 
LEAF-STALKS about thrice the length of the leaves, up- 
right, fomewhat flattened, at bottom furnifhed with 
a fheath, and received into each other, all radical. 
SCAPUS or flowering ftem unbranched, fomewhat taller 
than the leaves, proceeding from the fheath of one 
of them, upright, round, not perfeélly ftraight, nearly 
of an equal thicknefs throughout, of a glaucous hue, 
covered with four or five fheaths which clofely em- 
brace it. Two or more flowering ftems fpring from 
the fame root, according to the age of the plant. 
| SPATHA terminal, about fix inches in length, ofa glaucous 
hue, with a fine bright purple at its bafe, ee 
out to a long point, opening above from the bafe to 
within about an inch of the apex, where the edges 
roll over to. one fide, forming an angle of about 
__ forty-five degrees, and containing about fix flowers. 
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FLOWERS 
