four to six inches long, terete, bearing a single head of 
flowers within a diphyllous spatha, with green, concave, 
ovate leaves, white and membranaceous at the margin, four 
to five flowered, each flower emerging from a large, almost 
entirely white and scariose, convolute, bractea. Perianth 
cut into six, obovate, spreading, deep yellow segments, a 
little concave in their lower half, and there narrow, with a 
small dark purple spot at the very base. Colwmn of fila- — 
ments long, densely covered with rather long, glandular, 
yellow hairs. Anther short, yellow, just below the slightly 
protruded tip of the style, with its three very short stigmas. 
Germen oblong, glabrous. Capsule oblong, attenuated, 
three-valved. 
A native of Chili, where it has been found both by Dr. 
Gitiies, and Mr. Cruicxsuanxs. From the latter I have 
dried specimens. To the former we are indebted for its 
introduction to our greenhouses ; it having been raised at 
Mr. Netiz’s Garden at Canonmills, from seeds sent by Dr. 
Gituies. It first flowered in June, 1828. The same plant 
produced again, during the summer of the present year, 
(1829,) a succession of blossoms which lasted many weeks, 
and yielded seed, from which many plants haye been raised. 
Fig. I. Column of the Stamens, with the slightly protruded Style and Stig- 
mas. 2. Capsule, included in its scariose Bractea,—Magnified. 
