however, is flat and broad, tapering a little at the base, where 

 they are round, hard, and woody. The flat part is remarkably 

 thick and leathery, from one to two feet long, and about two 

 and a half or three inches wide, of a rich deep green, with 

 large crenatures along the margin, from which it gradually 

 thickens towards the midrib which is prominent from the base 

 to the point. Tho fiowers are produced at the first or second 

 sinus from the apex of the leaf, or shoot, on which several 

 buds make their appearance, but only one of them comes to 

 maturity. The tube is round, and about four inches long, 

 slightly curved and angular, with three or four series of ele- 

 vated, ovate-acuminate, brownish green scales on the outside, 

 each of which are similar in form and colour but vary in size, 

 the inner ones being small, and the outer ones so large as to 

 resemble the sepals from which they are scarcely to be dis- 

 tinguished. The buds are long and much pointed, of a 

 brownish pink colour. T]\q fiowers are large and extremely 

 handsome, being about five inches in diameter, and of a pale 

 cream colour. The sepals are linear lanceolate acute, about four 

 inches Jong and three-fourths of an inch wide, ranged in two 

 rows of six, the one alternating with the other, and the inner 

 being somewhat paler than the outer, which is a deep brown. 

 The petals are eighteen in number, arranged in three rows, 

 similar to the sepals. They are ovate oblong, somewhat 

 pointed and taper towards the base, which is thick and fleshy, 

 but otherwise they are of a thin delicate texture, about three 

 and a half inches long and upwards of an inch broad. The 

 inner row is rather shorter than the rest but similar in every 

 other respect. The filaments are very numerous and about 

 two-thirds the length of the petals, to which many of them 

 are attached round the mouth of the tube. The greater 

 number of them, however, are placed along the throat of the 

 tube, which causes them to be of unequal lengths. All are of 

 the same pale cream colour as the petals, with a slight greenish 

 tinge internally. The aiithers are ovate, obtuse, deep yellow. 

 The style is very conspicuous, being about the thickness of a 

 straw and as long as the petals, with eight recurved feathery 

 looking stigmas half an inch long. The ovarium is at the 

 bottom of the tube and is comparatively small, yellowish green, 

 apparently five-angled. 



The plant is easily cultivated in rich loamy soil mixed 

 with small bits of charcoal instead of sand, and increases freely 

 by cuttings of the leaves or shoots, which not unfrequently emit 

 roots at their extremity. It requires to be grown in a warm 

 greenhouse, and to be placed in a situation where it may have 

 plenty of light. 



