Mr. Hindes, the surgeon of the Sulphur surveying ship, 

 met with this on the coast of California, and sent it to the 

 Horticultural Society, in whose garden it flowered last June. 

 It has large oblong bulbs, covered with coarse brown scales ; 

 the leaves are very long, wavy, channelled, of a dull green 

 colour, and being too weak to support their own weight they 

 lie prostrate. The flowering stem is erect, about two feet 

 high, panicled from the base, with straggling branches bearing 

 slender racemes of distant flowers. The latter are white, 

 with a green stripe along the back of each division. 



It is a hardy bulbous plant, requiring the same treatment 

 as Veratrums or Helonias, and growing freely in any rich 

 sandy soil. It flowers from July to August. Only a single 

 bulb was received from Mr. Hindes, without any other indi- 

 cation than that of California. 



It has hitherto failed to produce seeds in this country. 



