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diameter, pendent ; bark scaly ; internodes about 

 inch long. Leaves seventeen to eighteen inches long, b 

 one and a half to two inches broad, and three-quarterl 

 of an inch thick towards the base, patent, deflexe 

 and recurved, very fleshy, narrowly ensiform, acuminate, \ , 

 slightly turgid above, convex beneath, margin very |\ 

 narrowly horny and reddish or yellow ; teeth four to six- 

 tenths of an inch apart, small, deltoid, about one-tenth of 

 an inch long, tip edentate for two and a half to three 

 inches, terete or semi-terete ; leaves of young shoots 

 distichous, on older branches convex on both surfaces, 

 especially towards the base, sheath spotted and striped 

 with white. Inflorescence about thirty inches long ; scape 

 ascending, slender, twice or thrice branched; scales tew, 

 deltoid. Racemes erect, cylindric, many-flowered, aboufc 

 six to eight inches long and two broad, the terminal 

 longer; pedicels five to six-tenths of an inch long, erecto- 

 patent ; bracts shorter, deltoid, ovate, acute, marcescent. 

 Flowers drooping, nearly an inch long, cylindric, sub- 

 trigonous, not constricted, dull yellowish-red ; segments 

 connate for one-third their length, yellow within, tips 

 slightly recurved, with paler margins, and three dark 

 central streaks. Stamens and style very shortly exserted. 

 A. Berger, 



Fig. 1, flower; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, piatil; all enlarged; 5, reduced view of 

 whole plant from a photograph. 



