BLOSSOM on petal. Tube straight, cylindrical; border three-cleft; the two upper segments oblong, rounded, equal; the lower one, scarcely longer than the upper ones, channelled, oblong. _Honey cup_ fixed to the tube of the blossom, ascending beneath the upper segment straight the length of the blossom, oblong one-toothed on each side of the base, then with a hollow bosom widening at the end and obtusely three-lobed. CHIVE. Thread, none. Tip one inserted into the throat of the tube, in the bosom of the lower segment of the blossom, opposite to the honey-cup, free, straight, linear, notched at the end, grooved on the inside, of the same length and breadth as the segment of the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud beneath, oblong, obscurely three sided, smooth. Shaft thread-shaped, very smooth, upright the length of the blossom. Summit shield-shaped; with a flat head, the side fronting the honey-cup appearing cut off, perforated by a hole running into the shaft. SEED VESSEL. Berry oblong, three-furrowed, cylindrical, smooth, terminated by a navel, fleshy in the middle, three-celled. Cells soft, skinny. SEEDS numerous, oblong, appearing cutoff, four-cornered, very smooth. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Renealmia foliis vaginantibus; floribus racemosis terminalibus pendulis; fructu piloso. Renealmia with sheathing leaves; flowers in bunches terminating the branches, hanging down, fruit hairy. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A miniature representation of the plant. 2. The outer sheath of the blossom. 3. A flower complete. 4. The Honey cup. 5. The Chive, Pointal, and Seed-bud. 6. The Pointal and Seed-bud cleared of the small inner sheath which surrounds the base of the chive and shaft; with the summit detached and magnified. 7. One of the small corpusculæ which embrace the base of the shaft, magnified. 8. The small sheath which crowns the seed-bud, magnified. 9. The Seed-bud, cut transversely, magnified.