Tbe specimen here figured was presented to the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew, in 1898, by its valued correspondent, Mr. 

 Max LeichtliD, of Baden-Baden. It flovyered in an open 

 border, under protection, in November, 1900. 



Descr. — Leaves three to six feet long by an inch broad 

 in the middle, from whence they taper to a long, acumi- 

 nate tip, rigidly coriaceous, deeply channelled above, 

 strongly keeled dorsally, many- and strongly-nerved, 

 bright-green above, sub-glaucous beneath, margin serrulate. 

 Peduncle stout, as long as the leaves or shorter, with a few- 

 scattered ovate bracts below the inflorescence. Spike two 

 feet long, cylindric, one and a half to two inches in diameter. 

 Flowers most numerous and densely crowded, very shortly 

 pedicelled, erect, white, or suffused with green, buds 

 yellowish. Bracts minute, ovate, acuminate, scarious. 

 Perianth one-half to two-thirds of an inch long, swollen at 

 the base, narrowly infundibular; lobes small, rounded, 

 erect, midrib brown. Filaments almost twice as long as 

 the perianth, white. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1, margin of leaf; 2, portion of spike; 3, flowers; 4, pistil :—«^^ 

 enlarged ; 5, and <6, flowers witli bracts of the natural size. 



