of showing a few of the flowers the size of life,—also giving a 
leaf of natural size, and in a small outline figure, showing the 
general habit of the plant; thus both the great beauty of the 
individual flowers, which sometimes number as many as twenty 
on one scape, is seen, and the character of the plant itself 
shown. 
The description given of it in the 6 Illustrated Bouquet ’ is as 
follows:—■“ It forms a bold, stemless, evergreen, fleshy-rooted, 
warm greenhouse or conservatory plant, of about a foot and a 
half or two feet in height, and produces somewhat lengthy, 
ligulate, acute, permanent leaves, which are placed in two op¬ 
posite rows, and are broadly sheathed, in an imbricated manner 
at the base, so as to form a neck-like extension of the crown. 
The leaves are suberect when young, but become divergent as 
they get matured ; they are from eighteen inches to tw T o feet in 
length, and on both the upper and under surfaces of a rich 
dark-green hue, uniformly striated with shallow longitudinal 
grooves and marked with transverse veins between. The flower- 
scapes are from a foot to a foot and a half in height, flattened 
or compressed, with two sharp margins; they support a large 
umbellate head of a score or more flowers, each of which is 
borne on a glossy green three-sided pedicel or footstalk from 
one to two inches in depth. The blossoms are cup-shaped or 
vase-shaped, from two to three inches in width, and nearly as 
much in length, the lower half of the perianth segments of a 
richly-shaded buff tint; while the upper half is a beautiful 
light vermilion orange-colour. The filaments, with their anthers, 
as well as the style and stigma, are of a golden-yellow.” 
A plant so desirable and so easy of cultivation will not be 
long in finding its way into the collections of those who appre¬ 
ciate beautiful and early-flowering plants; and in the hope of 
aiding in its cultivation w 7 e have included it in our illustrations. 
