sinus, here each sinus is quite entire and even; the limb is 
there so far undulated or curled as to have suggested the 
“spécific name, but is clearly not so here; the leaves are 
there of the dimensions of 6 inches in length and 4 
in breadth, affording very different proportions to those 
found in the leaves of the present plant, where they are 
about 8 inches in length, and scarcely 3 in breadth. Both 
however have this peculiarity in common, viz. that the dried 
foliage bears a great resemblance to that of Hemerocatuis 
Japonica, not merely in point of contour, but also in the ap- 
pearance of the nerves, which are barred or latticed: a cha- 
racter hardly to be perceived in the fresh state in this species, 
not probably in the other. 
The plant now represented is the produce of seed re- 
ceived by Mr. Lambert from Demerara; was reared in his 
hothouse at Boyton, and blossomed in November. The 
specimen in the Banksian Herbarium (unquestionably of the 
same species) had been obtained from a bulb that flowered 
several years ago at Kew; and which came out of a vessel 
captured in the late war, having on board a collection of 
plants of Cayenne for the Botanic Garden at Paris. 
feaves deep green, petioled; blade elongatedly oval, 
tapered at each end, abruptly pointed; petiole 3-4 inches 
long, channelled, narrow. Scape ancipital or two-edged. 
Spathe 4-valved, valves green inclining to white, oblong, 
the longest about 3 inches high, decussatedly opposite, 
upright: wmbel sessilé, about 8-fiowered; flowers white, 7 
surrounding a central one, when extended about 11 inches 
long; tube greenish white, half a foot high or more, round, 
straightish, faintly angular, streakless, about twice the 
thickness of a crow-quill, narrowed above and more con- 
spicuously triangular: limb radiated, widespread, segments 
linear, about 2 or 3 lines broad, from 4 to 5 inches long, 
tapered to a point from far below, at the lower part nar- 
rowed and channelled, inner ones broadest, sometimes 
slightly curled at the lower edges. Crown narrow, scarcely 
wider than the tube, 4 times shorter than the segments of 
the limb, from which it is entirely detached. Filaments ex- 
tremely slender. Anthers orange-yellow, very slender. 
Stigma asmall head. Germen short, elliptical, triangular: 
ovula 8-10 in each cell, oblong, pointing upwards, attached 
to the lower angle of the cells in two ranks. 
