lower flowers, and there very short. Calyx half superior, of 
three, erect or slightly twisted, lanceolate, reddish leaflets. 
Petals three, curved, nearly regular, convolute, red ; at the 
base of each furnished with a large, white, crenated scale. 
Stamens shorter than the petals: filaments white: anthers 
linear-oblong, yellow. Pistil : Germen half-inferior, the 
superior three-lobed, tapering upwards into a filiform, 
white style. Stigmas three, shortly fineur, twisted. Cap- 
sule tri-angular, or forming a double three-sided pyramid, 
= base os seme with ae fleshy base = eb 
e upper part cov e persistent, withered flowers, 
three-celled. Seeds on scrobiform. 
This is assuredly the same plant as Repovutr’s P. latifolia, 
which is the P. bracteata, «2, of Hortus Kewensis. But I 
cannot agree with the author of that valuable work in con- 
sidering the P. sulfwrea of Anprews to belong to the same 
species. Independent of the colour of the flowers; they 
are much larger and the petals, as represented both in the 
Bot. Repository and in the Bot. Register, are very different 
in shape from those of our plant: nor do the bracteas ap- 
pear to be so large in proportion to the flower. __ 
The spike of flowers in our specimen is young : a spike 
of seed-vessels now before us is thrice the length off the 
flowering plant. Communicated by Messrs. SHEPHERDS, 
from the Liverpool Botanic Garden, in January, 1828; to 
which valuable establishment the seeds were sent in 1825, 
by Mr. Exuiorr, Staff-Surgeon, from the island of St. Vin- 
cent. We have fine dried specimens from the same island, 
gathered by the Rev. L. Gurtpine. es. 
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Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal. 3. Stamen. 4. Pistil. 5. Capsule. 6. 
Section of ditto. 7. Seed—All more or less magnified. . 
