Lately introduced into this country by Dr. Roxburgh, from 

 Chittagong on the Coaft of Bengal. Is faid to have firlt 

 (lowered in the collection of Lady Amelia Hume. Our 

 drawing was taken from a fpecimen that bloomed this fummer 

 at Mr. Vere's, Kenfiogton; where it was cultivated in the 

 bark-bed of the hothoufe. The flowers kept falling off", parting 

 from the pedicle juft below the germen, without ripening their 

 fruit, indeed before they begun to decay. Mr. Brown believes 

 that there is a joint at the place where this feparation takes 

 place; but we could not ourfelves perceive any. A very 

 lingular genus ; feems to us in general appearance to come 

 nearer to Heiohias or rather Veratrum (if thefe genera 

 are to be kept diAinct) than to any other vegetable we know 

 of j at the fame tune they differ in feveral material points, as 

 may be fecu by the above defcription, G. 



