placed on a shelf near the glass, in a warm stove, it blossomed in 
the months of November and December 1825. 
I find no description that will aceord with this plant. 
We have the good fortune to possess from the same island, and 
also from Mendoza in South America, through the favour of 
Dr GIL.tEs, several other novel species, which I hope to be 
able to figure in this work. 
Fig. 1. Bractea removed from the flower. Fig. 2. Flower. Fig. 3. Seg- 
ment of the corolla, with two stamens. Fig. 4. Pistil. Fig. 5. Portion 
of a leaf, to shew the farinaceous scales.—-All more or less magnified. 
