A. foliis latis undulatis maculofis, floribus fpicatis infundibuli- 



formibus, limbo revoluto. Mill, Dift. el 7. 



n. 22. 

 A. foliis Ianceolatis planis ereftis radicatis. *. (ruineenfis.) 



Hort. Cliff. 132. 

 A. guineenfis radice geniculata, foliis e viridi et atro undulatim 



variegatis. Cmm* Hart, Amfl* 2. 39. /. 20. 



JfW. Bot. 84. /. 33. 



Desc. Leaves from half a foot to two feet high; having 

 their inner fubflance clofely interwoven with ftraight longitu- 

 dinal fibres, as fine as thofe of hemp, and exceedingly tough; 

 which in the clofely allied Eaft-Indian fpecies, when freed from 

 the flefhy fubftance that adheres to them, are manufaftured by 

 the natives into bow firings ; Jlem with the inflorefcence about 

 two feet and a half high; peduncle, from the protuberance of the 

 partial receptacles of the flower-fafcicles, fomewhat knobbed; 

 fowers greenifh white, about an inch and a half long, fully 

 expanded only in the evening and during the night, when they 

 are very fragrant ; ftarmns nearly x^jual, adnate to the tube, 

 rather Ihorter than the border, filiform ; anthers linear oblong, 

 incumbent ; fiyle filiform, nearly twice thicker than thefe ; 

 germen ovate-oblong, bluntly trigonal, trifulcate, angles de- 

 prefledly one-ftreaked ; berry orange-red, deprefled-globular, 

 generally one celled and one feeded, the other two cells being 

 abortive, about the fize of a common pea. 



Native of the coaft of Guinea. Cultivated in 169O in 

 Hampton-Court gardens. Requires to be conftantly kept in a 

 hot-houfe ; eafily propagated by offsets. 



We have dropped Thun berg's " thyrftflora? ufually annexed 

 to it for a fynonym, fince neither the fpecific name or phrafe 

 feem to us to apply to the prefent fpecies; nor is it very 

 probable that it mould be found growing fpontaneoufly in tk 

 neighbourhood of the Cape of Good Hope. Our drawing *» 

 taken form a plant that flowered laft September, at M r ' 

 LoDDiGEs'Nurfery-Garden, Hackney. G. 



