and a half to two incbes broad, sessile, strap-sliaped, 

 strongly waved on both sides of the stout, broad, well- 

 defined midrib, which is prominent on both surfaces, deep 

 green above, pale beneath, tip narrowed to a sub-acute 

 point. Scape a foot high, stout, compressed, three-quarters 

 of an inch broad. Spathe-vahes two and a half inches 

 long, ovate-lanceolate, pale brown. Flowers umbellate, 

 erect, sessile. Ovari/ half to three-quarters of an inch 

 long, narrowly oblong. Perianth- tube six inches long, 

 cylindric, pale green ; segments half as long as the tube, 

 spreading and recurved, narrowly linear-lanceolate, falcate. 

 Filaments spreading, rather shorter than the perianth- 

 segments, slender, white ; anthers narrow, yellow. Style 

 very slender, declinate, then upcurved, rather longer than 

 the filaments. — J. I>. fl". 



Figs. 1 and 2, anthers ; 3, upper part of style and etigma : — all enlarged ; 

 4, reduced view of whole plant. 



