We have never met with a figure of this fpecies in any of 

 the more modern Botanical works. The plant given in 

 Andrews's Botanift's Repolitory, plate 473, under the 

 name of ghriofa y is aloifolia % a very diftinct fpecies ; in 

 that the trunk reaches from fix to ten feet in height, here 

 from fix inches to two feet ; in that the leaves have a narrow 

 finely crenulate cartilaginous edging, here they are quite 

 entire ; in that the panicle is much clofer, the racemelets 

 more thickly befet with Howers, the corolla larger and longer 

 with fegments farther acuminate and purple on the outfide, 

 and has before expanfion a remarkable aflurgent curvature, 

 as if reverfedly beaked ; the branchlets of the panicle are 

 likewife more lax and drooping. The inflorefcence in the 

 prefent fpecies is generally about three feet high ; the caudex 

 often garnifhed with leaves down to the ground, fometimes 

 naked for near two feet. The bloom is without fcent. Na- 

 tive of Carolina, where it was found by Michaux growing 

 near the fea. Known in our gardens as far back as the time 

 of Parkinson and Gerard. Blooms about Auguft. 



Our drawing was taken from a plant in Mr. Malcolm's 

 greenhoufe at Kenfington. G. 



