curved, fwelling a little towards the germen ; mouth naked, 

 abruptly (that is without the ufual gradually enlarged faux) 

 expanding into elliptically-lanceolate broad lamina?, which are 

 recurved ; inner rather the wideft. Stamens filiform, declined- 

 atfurgent,' (horter than limb, decurfively adnate to the bore of 

 the tube, from the mouth of which they iffue unattached ; an- 

 thers linear-oblong, firR yellow, then brownilh, lanceolate, 

 incumbent, balancing. Germen fefiile, oval-oblong, even, 

 fmooth, green, confluent with the tube ; Style fomewhat fien- 

 ds- er than the filaments ; Stigma fubtrilobately deprefled, hiant, 

 fimbriate. 



Thefe plants are now common in our ftoves ; flower freely ; 

 are eafily propagated and very ornamental. G. 



