merous alternate branches, again divided into branehlets, 

 one of which with its flowers is represented in our figure. 

 A lanceolate marcescent bracte at the base of each branchlet, 

 and small bractes at each pedicle. Flowers white, pendu- 

 lous, on short slender stalks. Germen inferior, 3-cornered, 

 striate, about an inch long, a little curved, 3-celled. Petals 

 6, oblong -lanceolate, equal, somewhat fleshy. Filaments 

 6, narrowed at both ends, broad hi. the middle, not half the 

 length of the petals. Anthers oblong, versatile : pollen yel- 

 low. Style 3-cornered, longer than the stamens, hollow : 

 stigma capitate, pubescent. Nectaries 3, oblongs spreading, 

 at the point, inserted at the base of the style. Under the 

 outer bark the liber divides into very tough fibres. 



The growth of the flowering stem was extremely rapid. 



A specimen of one of the branches between four and five 

 feet long, from one of the branehlets of which our drawing 

 was taken, was sent us in December last by the Right 

 Honourable Earl Powis, from his Lordship's seat at Wall- 

 cott, in Shropshire, together with a rough sketch of the 

 whole plant 



This plant seems to have equalled* in size that described 

 and figured by Jacquin as above quoted; and, like it, pro- 

 duced a great number of viviparous bulbs. 



Native of South America. Cultivated according to Mr, 

 Aiton m 1690, at the Royal garden at Hampton-Court. 



