imported, the plant seems to have grown upon the side of a 
nearly upright trunk. Another species with similar bractes 
and pendulous spike, but differing widely in other respects, 
accompanied it from the same quarter, but did not survive 
the voyage. Our plant flowered in the stove at Spofforth, 
in June, being planted in a small pot of peat on a warm 
flue. The growth of the inflorescence is singularly rapid. 
Twenty-four hours after its point had emerged from the 
leaves, it was in the state represented in our sketch. Our 
dissection shews the scales and insertion of the filaments. 
The scales of this genus have been inaccurately stated to 
alternate with the filaments. There is certainly a scale 
between each two; but the scales are in fact the bifid termi- 
nation of the lobes of the horny tube of the calyx, which 
adhere to the segments of the corolla. Three of the fila- 
ments are inserted between the pairs of scales into the 
lobes of the tube, three lower down between the lacinie 
and lobes which adhere to them into the mouth of the tube. 
The leaves of this species are most singularly barred at 
uncertain intervals with white. W. H. recon? 
~ — 2 = m7 -~ ee = * a 
wing the inside of the tube of the calyx, the scales, and the 
insertion of the filaments. 6. the whole flower. 
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