from the bottom. Leaves 5 in our plant, 2 of these were decayed above the middle, the other $ 
quite fresh having already shot to some inches in length in the moss the root was packed i in, tore 
spreading in every direction, linear-lanceolate, scarcely a quarter of an inch wide in the broa 
part, very entire, obtuse, smooth, hollow, the under surface slightly far rowed, all decayed by i 
month of August. Flowers from 4 to 7 in a fasciculus, succeeding each other slowly, erect, 
smelling agreeably. Peduncle not so long as the leaves, rather. narrower and paler, erect, 
cylindrical, finely striated, quite smooth, fistular at least by the time the fruit ripens. Otter 
ieaties eenish brow se karat not withered when the first flower expanded, spreading, ob- 
paca ne one whitis ery narrow. Pedicel of the first. flower as Jong as the corolla, the 
others ually shorter, aa cylindrical, smooth. Corolla rather more than an inch long : Tube 
dull green with a ting: and 6 deeper lines running down from the middle of each division of 
tical, very entire, obtuse e, t “the three outer ones narrower and at the top Gasca ingeielly into a 
little claw by which they are held together before they are expanded : withering upon the torus with- 
out falling. Filaments 6, inserted in the orifice of the tube, decurrent, yellowish green with white 
edges, erect, quite smooth; those 3 which are opposite to the inner divisions of the limb wedge- 
anthers : the other 3 considerably larger, elliptic-wedge-shaped, hollow, barren. 
Anthers san with paler edges, 3 lines long, inserted at the hase where they are 2-fid, quite erect, 
ear, deeply emarginated at the top, 2-locular, 4-valved, splitting rather towards the inside, 
Pollen dee yellow. Torus refi tarot yellow, projecting into 3 melliferous lobes we which the 
corolla adheres. Pericarpium before impregnation yellowish green, not so long as the tube, 3-angu- 
with rudiments of 3 intermediate angles, se 8 smooth. Style yellowish ow, reaching to 
about the bottom of the anthers, erect, triangular, smooth. Stigma yellow, large in rtion to 
the style, somewhat funnel sshaped, divided into 3 thick recurved wedge-shaped lobes furrowed on 
their side. from 5 to 7 ineach cell, inserted on the internal margin of the dissepiments 
in a double row: in our plant ake two of them oP guar imperfectly and were black, fully a line 
, 5-angular with a large chalaza at the botto 
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REFERENCES TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Coro: he aieea open with the Stamina, one of the barren ones having a rudiment of an 
_ Anther at the sake % Pistillum, Saar of the Pericarpium magnified, shewing the mel- 
liferous receptacle. 4. A Seed magnified. 
