by Smrru, given to it; but as the Genus Renearmia has 
been restored upon good grounds by Roscog, it becomes 
necessary to adopt from Sprencet the appellation of Lisrr- 
71a for the Genus of Brown, which is a most natural one. 
Descr. Root-leaves (six inches to one foot long, two to 
four and a half lines broad) equitant, every where glabrous, 
membranous at the edges of the sheath, linear-sword-shaped, 
acute, nerved, the central nerve thicker and stronger than 
the rest ; stem-leaves few (about three) sheathing, smaller 
upwards, (the uppermost an inch and a half long) in form 
and structure like the root-leaves. Stem (one foot four 
inches high) simple, very slightly compressed, glabrous, 
light green, jointed at the origin of the leaves. Flowers 
capitate, pedicels light green, round, glabrous, outer spathe 
bivalvular, longer than the pedicels, membranous, repeated 
on the inner flowers, which expand in succession. Perianth 
superior, six-partite, glabrous, rotate ; tube none; ovter 
segments small, narrow, ovate and colourless at the base, 
concave, keeled and subherbaceous at the apex ; inner seg- 
ments (seven lines long, six lines broad) about twice the 
length of the outer, unguiculate, cordate, entire, very slight- 
ly crisped, retuse at the apex, somewhat fleshy or like white _ 
wax, with a distinct subdiaphanous middle rib, and very faint — 
diverging lateral nerves. Stamens tliree, inserted into the 
base of the corolla, opposite to the outer segments, about as 
long as the inner ; filaments, like these segments, pure white, 
erect, cohering for about a quarter of their length, above 
which they diverge a little; anthers yellow, incumbent, ob- 
long, cleft at both ends, but especially at the lower, open- 
ing along the sides. Stigmata minute, terminal, capitate, 
colourless: Style white, single, shorter than the stamens, 
cleft into three to the point where the filaments cohere; 
ents diverging between the filaments, each thicker 
than the cohering part included within: the sheath of the 
filaments. Germen inferior, oblong, triquetrous, green; 
glabrous, three-locular. Ovules numerous, oblong, mutu- 
ally impressed, fixed into a central placenta. Graham. 
_ Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Style and Stamens. 3. Capsules, ee ee 
-sule, burst :—magnified. apsules, 4. Single Cap 
