an inch and a liatf in length ; fcdpcs feveral, ancipitalJv filiform 1 , 

 Uriel, quite fimple, not ftriate, generally twifted, twice longer 

 than the leaves, which are about nine inches high, terminated 

 by a fmall fubglobofe bead of roundifh, convex, imbricate* 

 putamineoufly hardened, cartilaginous, brown fcales ; lower 

 ones fmalleft ; all fining off towards the edge; within each of 

 thefe is a one-flowered, glumaceous, fefliJe fpalhe of three! 

 valves, the two outer navicularly convolute and oppofite (ac- 

 cording to Labi i. larimer k, pubefcent at the hack), the 

 other fhorter, compreffed, enclofed, enveloping the unexpanded 

 (lower, caducous; corolla yellow, fugacious, tripetalous, regular, 

 equal ; petals broad-fpathulate ; ungues about the length of 

 the fcales, very narrow, convergent ; lamina rotately explanaie, 

 obovate-round, fubdentieulately edged ; filaments fubulatc, 

 adnate to and about the length of the ungues, each being ac- 

 companied from the bafe by a fovnewhat longer fctiform pencil- 

 tufted upright appendage ; anthers oblong-fagittate, upright; 

 piJfU declined, about equal to corolla j germen green, trigonally 

 turbinate ; fiyle triquetral filiform, terminating in three diver- 

 gent Jtigmas, which from filiform and couvolutely cucullate, 

 are enlarged into rotately expanding erofely fringed laminas; 

 cap/, obovate, trilocuiar, three-valved ; valves feptiferous 

 down their middle, retufe ; the whole capped bv a feparate fid 

 of one piece ; feeds, many, oblong, on a receptacle which is 

 nearly diftincl from the fepla. 



Native of Botany-Bay as well as of Van Diemen's Land. 

 "We have little doubt but, that Vahl's anceps is of this fpecies, 

 although a Malabar plant. We have t ruffed to La bill ar- 

 diere as to the feed-veffel which we did not fee. 



Our fpecimen produced feveral flowers in fucceffion ; they 



'had no fcent. Firft railed in this country by Mr. Loddiges, 



of Hackney. Blooms in Auguft ; thould be kept in the green- 



houfe. Mr. Brown informed us of the nature of the middle 



valve of the fpathe. G. 



