Aloe and the subject of this MF ae had pale green flowers 
with little colouring, either of scarlet or blue, in bractez, 
calyx, or corolla. In foliage and form of parts it resembles 
perfectly the wild specimens of T. flexuosa preserved in the 
Banksian Herbarium. — 
_ Our drawing was made from Mr. Colvill’s collection. 
Native of the West Indies and South America. 
Parasitical. Roots filiform, long, rigid. Leaves chiefly 
‘radical, linear-lanceolate, broader at the base, sessile, in- 
flated, embracing, entire at the edge, loose, bent back at 
the point, striated, membranous, greenish white beneath, 
somewhat tomentose or mealy, with very minute peltate hol- 
lowed scales which are surrounded with a striated hyaline 
edge and may be distinctly seen with a lens. Stem or Scape 
longer than the leaves, two or three feet high, feeble, round, 
with alternate, lanceolate, acute, red edges, the lowermost 
ending in a linear leaflet; somewhat divided at the top, and 
terminated by the spikes. Spikes 2 or 3, solitary, long, 
feeble, with a three-cornered flexuose rachis:; ; the florets 
alternate, distichous, and remote. Bractew or Spathe of 
one leaf, lanceolate, concaye, striate. Calyx 3-parted, tri- 
angular. at the base, persistent, with erect coloured lacinize. 
Petals 3, linear, longer than the calyx, reflexed at the 
point, scarlet, or blue (or pale green). Filaments 6, the 
alternate ones a little shorter than the others, inser ted into 
the receptacle, filiform, nearly the length of the petals. 
Anthers ovate, bifid at the base, whitish. Germen ovate, 
triangular. Style filiform. Stigma trifid. Capsule elon- 
gate, cylindrical, drawn off to a point, 3-cornered, with 
each angle a little dilated, 3-celled, 3-valved, inside shining 
black. Seeds pape Huis capillar Ys yellowish. Swartz. 
ae L. 
