encumbens paulo immersa, turbinata corolle feré concolora, bilocularis lo- 
culis scariosis subtus convoluto-conniventibus ; loculus quisque massulas polli- 
neas 4 icludens; masse pollinis 8, parallel, lineari-spathulate albide 
durissime. Stigma sub lobo medio elongato columne latens, bilobum, recul- 
vato-prominens, vitreo-splendens, corrugatum sed levissimum, atque nitt- 
dissimum lobis apice rotundatis, areolam secernentem subtus abscondens. 
Leaves radical, two feet high, yellowish green, plaitedly 
nerved, lanceolate, five inches over, channeled and_petio- 
lately tapered toward the base. Scapes several, 2-4 feet 
high, simple, upright, round, villous, green, opaque, with 
several close-pressed lanceolate short scattered sheaths. 
Spike terminal, numerous, close, upright, six inches to @ 
foot long, cylindrical, horizontally spreading: axis whitish 
green, sulcate; bractes several times shorter than the ger- 
men, green, lanceolate, gradually smaller. Flowers villous 
outside, uniformly white, turning green where wounded, 
3-2 inches long. Germen 14 inch long, more than an 
inch longer than the corolla, and one third longer than the 
spur. Corolla outspread, radiate, nearly regular, two in- 
ner segments narrowest. Label twice the length of the 
corolla, continuous with the lower side of the apex of the 
column, and resembling an appendage to that part, out- 
spread, 3-parted, lower side-lobes divaricate, entire, shorter, 
middle furcately bifid like the letter Y, segments blunt, the 
whole turning to a cream-colour before it fades away. 
Column short, thick, turbinate: anther incumbent along 
the upper side of the summit of the column; bilocular: 
pollen masses 8, parallel, linear-spatulate (the shape of 
-Harlequin’s sword in miniature), compressed, white ; stig- 
ma 2-lobed, shining, recuryedly prominent, hid beneath the 
prominent pistil. 
The name of CananrHE was proposed for this genus, 
and its separation from Limoporum and Buerta, in a former 
article of this work, by Mr. Brown. 
Drawn from a fine plant in Mr. Colvill’s hothouse at 
Chelsea, where several stems, three feet and more in length, 
were thrown up from the same root. 
