1807, but it is in turn antedated by the name Vagnera, 
employed in 1763 by Adanson. The species now figured, 
S. paniculata, which is a native of Guatemala and the 
extreme south of Mexico, is most closely allied to the 
Mexican S, thyrsoidea, Hemsl., but is readily distinguished 
by the much shorter branches of the inflorescence and the 
comparatively fewer flowers borne on much longer pedicels. 
In S. thyrsoidea too the pedicels are subpatent, a circum- 
stance which imparts a distinctive facies to the plant. The 
specimen from which the material for our plate has been 
obtained is one introduced and grown by Messrs, Sander 
& Sons, St. Albans, with whom it flowered in March, 
1913. From the snowy whiteness of all parts of the 
inflorescence, which affords a pleasant contrast to the 
green foliage, the species is likely to be a distinct acces- 
sion to collections under glass, but it cannot take a place 
alongside its more hardy congeners, like S. racemosa, 
S. stellata, S. trifolia and others which are grown at 
Kew in the open border along with the common Solomon’s 
Seal, Polygonatum multiflorum, All.,a member of a genus 
closely allied to Smilacina. | 
Derscription.—Herb, glabrous; stem erect, cylindric, 
greenish. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, long acuminate, 5-6 in. 
long, above the base 14 in. wide, at the very base much 
narrowed; main-nerves 5-7, with numerous slender in- 
tervening nervules. Panicle terminal, racemosely branched, 
2} in. long, and as much across; all parts snowy white; 
bracteoles minute, deltoid ; pedicels about + in. long; flowers 
about 4 in. across, Perianth-segments elliptic, rounded at 
the tip, spreading. Filaments subequal, rather shorter than 
the perianth-segments. Ovary ovoid; style columnar, as 
long as the stamens; stigma minute. 
Fig. 1, a flower; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, pistil :—all enlarged, 
