210 



Stemless, RootstocJc 

 1 in, thick. Leaves 5-10 to a gro^'th, 2-ranked, 



a fan-like 



15. S, patens, TV. E. Brown (Fig. 5). 



creeping- | 



recurved — spreading from their base in 



manner, 

 slightly rough, the inner of adult plants 1^-3 ft. long, ^V 



m 



Fig. 5. 



S, patens, .V.E.Br. Plant | nat. size; A, section at middle of leaf, nat. 

 size; B, flower, nat size. 



S. cylindrica, Boj. C, section at middle of leaf of tj^pe; D, section at 

 middle of leaf of var. patula, iV.E.B/-,, both nat. size. All from 

 plants cultivated at Kew. 



thick 



base. 



from front to back and |-ll thick from side to side at the 

 the outer gradually shorter, compressed-cvlindric, with an 

 acute channel much narrower than the leaf extending from base 



