in the flowers, there is an astonishing similarity in the 
leaves, by which alone the plants certainly cannot be dis- 
tinguished.” 
Leaves lorate, somewhat glaucous, at the time of flower- 
ing erect, and much shorter than the scape, a little curved 
backwards, with a somewhat cartilaginous edge. Scape 
cylindrical, glaucous, fistular, about two feet high. Spatha 
ereen, erect, twice as long as peduncles. lowers sulpbur- 
coloured, without spots, stalked, cernuous. Pertanthium 
nine inches long, funnel-shaped, somewhat regular, with 
broad, ovate-lanceolate, striated segments: of which the 
lowest is the narrowest; their edges united with the tube 
below the orifice, which is naked. Stamens declinate, in- 
serted in the orifice, a little shorter than. the limb, those 
opposite the inner segments longest. Ovary 3-cornered, 
3-celled, many-seeded. Ovules flat, distichous. Style fili- 
form, a little longer than stamens. Stigma bluntly 3-lobed. 
J. L. 
