The plants we presume to be the nearest kindred of the 
genus have been noticed in the article Asprpisrra lurida 
(fol. 628) of this publication; beyond them we suspect 
the direction points towards Dracana and others of Jus- 
siew’s Asparagi. 
_ Turistra squalida was introduced into the hothouses of 
this country about ten years ago by Mr. Loddiges; and is 
said to belong to Amboyna. ‘The technical name we have 
applied to the species, on the publication of the genus in 
Curtis's Magazine, had been suggested by a faded sample 
of the inflorescence, and proves disparaging to the true ap- 
pearance of the blossom when fresh, in which state how- 
ever it endures but for a short time, fading from a lively 
French-grey to a sombre yellowish hue. | 
Leaves much higher than the scape, of a bright sap- 
green, membranous, nearly upright, stiffened by a midrib, 
elongatedly lanceolate, closely nerved, deeply tapered down- 
wards to a narrow channelled petiolelike base, 14 to 2 feet 
high and from 4 to 5 inches broad where widest, all radical — 
with their bases compactly alternately and imbricately 
ambient at the crown of the conical hardfleshed stoloni- 
ferous rootstock. Scape radical, nearly cylindrical, re- 
clinedly ascending, robust, rigid, solid. Flowers in a 
closish scattered spike without scent. Bractes membranous, 
twin, lanceolate; one close-pressed to the front of the 
flower and equal to it in length; the other interior close- 
pressed to one side of the flower, of the same shape with, 
but several times smaller than, that in front. Corolla as= 
cending, firm and fleshy, hemispherically campanulate, 6- 
cleft less than half way down; limb spreading and faintly 
bilabiate, segments obtuse recurved with a reflex border, 
the middlemost of the three lowermost less than the other, 
more pointed and farther reflexed: the upper side of the 
corolla is flattened and sunk by pressure against the axis of 
the spike, and its sides rendered sharp and prominent. dn- 
thers small, sessile, peltately fixed to the base of the seg- 
ments, bilocular, roundish facing inwards, whitish. Piés¢il 
urceolately elongated, whitish, higher than the uncleft por- 
tion of the corolla. Style an obtusely 3-cornered piped 
shaft several times higher than the germen, but equal to it 
in diameter. Germen green, oblately rounded, even with- 
out streak or furrow solid, 3-celled with two pencilled 
ovules attached to the base of each cell. up 
