Descr. A Palmlike Shrub, growing in our ftoves to 
the height of from two to ten feet; Root fibrous, branching, 
flefhy ; rootftock elongated into a perpendicular cylindrical 
caudex, uneven from numerous femicircular veftiges of fallen 
leaves ; terminated by a comofe fafcicle of /eaves arranged 
in feveral ranks, thefe are alternate, fparfely ambient, imbri- 
cately crowded, horizontally diverging, recurved, _lorate- 
lanceolate, entire, fmooth, veinlefs, tough, pliant, flightly 
channelled-depreffed, towards their bafe convolute-concave, 
ftem-embracing, finely nerved, paler underneath, with a lon- 
gitudinal midrib, outer ones generally penduloufly bent back ; 
Stem from their centre, far fmaller than caudex, upright, geni- 
culately flexuofe, paniculately branched; branches divaricately 
patent, alternate, diftant, lower ones fubcompounded, upper 
becoming gradually fhorter and at laft obfolete, all fheathed by 
a membranous, convolute-concave, acuminate leaflet ; flowers” 
very numerous, placed in clofe glomerate umbels or crowdedly 
capitate racemes at end of the branches, intermixed with fhort 
paleaceous brates ; at the lower part of the panicle we gene- 
rally find one or more axillary floral fafcicles; upper fafcicles 
feffile; pedicles far fhorter than corolla, filiform; coro//a whitilh, 
urceolate-hypocrateriform, ‘ube angularly cylindrical, ventricole 
at the bafe, /imd fix-parted, /egments revolutely rotate, nearly — : 
equal, oblong or fubcuneate, channelled, incurved at the end, 
inwards fhining with a red ftripe outwards; the whole corolla 
winds itfelf {pirally as it decays, enveloping the growing gér- 
men ; Filaments filiform-lanéeolate, thickeft in the middle, 
tapering towards each end, ftanding with a geniculate bend 
on the neck of the tube, equal to the fegments, diverging: 
anthers {mallifh, ovate-oblong, incumbent ; fyle capillary, fat 
flenderer but even with the flamens, upright; /ligmas three 
lobe-form, rounded; germen {imall, ovate-oblong, trigonal, 
with a fingle ovulum in each cell; cap/ule a round, tripulvinate- 
fpherical, trilocular berry, with a fingle feed in each cell ; of 
this Mr. Sarissury informs us he is in poffeffion of feveral 
{pecimens. . s 
A native of the Coaft of Guinea. In the Bankfian Het~ 
barium we find a fpecimen of it fent from Sierra Leone, by 
Prof. Arzettus. Cultivated at Chelfea by P. Mii, if 
1768. Blooms in our hot-houfes at various feafons; the fcent 
to us appeared like that of new hay, and was too powerful in 
the evening to be endured ina room. For our information 
concerning the fruit we are obliged to Mr. R. A. SALISBURYS 
we had indeed previoufly, judging by analogy, concluded tt 
to be fuch as he defcribes it, having examined that of twa 
clofely-allied fpecies, which we found to be precifely of this 
nature. Communicated by Mr, Loppices of Hackney. G 
