truly superb. The outline in the third plate of this number, is intended
to give our readers an idea of its general habit and mode of growth.

_Particular Description of the same._

ROOT perennial, stringy, somewhat like that of the tawny Day-lily
(Hemerocallis fulva); strings the thickness of the little finger,
blunt at the extremity, extending horizontally, if not confined,
to the distance of many feet.

LEAVES numerous, standing upright on their footstalks, about a foot in
length, and four inches in breadth, ovato-oblong, coriaceous,
somewhat fleshy, rigid, smooth, concave, entire on the edges,
except on one side towards the base, where they are more or less
curled, on the upper side of a deep green colour, on the under
side covered with a fine glaucous meal, midrib hollow above and
yellowish, veins unbranched, prominent on the inside, and
impressed on the outside of the leaf, young leaves rolled up.

LEAF-STALKS about thrice the length of the leaves, upright, somewhat
flattened, at bottom furnished with a sheath, and received into
each other, all radical.

SCAPUS or flowering stem unbranched, somewhat taller than the leaves,
proceeding from the sheath of one of them, upright, round, not
perfectly straight, nearly of an equal thickness throughout, of a
glaucous hue, covered with four or five sheaths which closely
embrace it. Two or more flowering stems spring from the same root,
according to the age of the plant.