become in several places very troublesome. In the islands it goes 

 by the name of the " curse of New Caledonia," probably because it 

 was iirsi distributed from the last named island to those adjacent. 

 In Mauritius it is a terrible pest, where it was also introduced as an 

 ornamental plant more than forty years ago. It can only be eradi- 

 cated with the greatest trouble, as the smallest particle of its roots 

 may throw out suckers after the plant has been cut down and 

 the stalks grubbed up. The only way I know to deal with it suc- 

 cessfully is by cutting it down close to the ground and letting the 

 plants lie over the stocks till the foil owing' year. This will smother the 

 stocks and roots, and if, after a twelve months, the dead brush is 

 burnt the land may then be ploughed, and rarely any of the roots 

 will sprout again. 



Honieria lineala. 



REFEKKNCE TO PL\TE. A, plant (much reduced); B, flower ; C, bulb with 

 bulbils ; D, airial bulbils at node of stem ; E, a single bulbil. (B, C, D, and E, 

 approximately natural size.) 



Homeria lincaia. Indigenous to South Africa. A perennial plant 

 with a bulb of considerable size ; leaves rigid, moderately strongly 

 ribbed; and with a whitish band along the mid rib, often over a foot 

 long; stem sometimes over 18 inches long, bearing the flowers on 

 stalks at the head ; flowers, copper red, the segments sometimes an 

 inch long and three-eighths to half an inch broad, with a small 



