It differs from the other species we are acquainted with, 
by the shortness of the tube and filaments, the last of which 
scarcely equal the dwarf lobules of the crown. And we did 
not find in the bloom the delightful fragrancé of its con- 
gener. It belongs to that division of the genus whose 
species have the filaments placed distinctly in the alternate 
intervals of the teeth of the crown, as opposed to that 
whose species have filaments which are not distinct in the 
intervals, but confluent with six of the teeth. 
Leaves bifarious, several, cylindrically sheathed below, 
diverging from thence, lorately elongated, sublanceolate, 
glaucous, obtusely acuminate, slightly involuted, obscurely 
nerved, contracted downwards, at the broadest of the blade 
about an inch and half across, in height a foot and half or 
more. Scape outside the foliage, which it nearly equals, 
compressed, glaucous. Spathe lanceolate, cuspidate, longer 
than the peduncles. Umbel white, 7-8-flowered, upright, 
slightly scented; peduncles angular, nearly equal to the 
flower... Germen but little shorter than the tube of the 
corolla, oblong, linear, three-sided, about twice the thick- 
ness of the flower-stalk; rudiments of seeds numerous in 
cach cell in two rows. Corolla about an inch and half 
long, or rather more, tube green, slender, six-fluted, tri- 
angular, scarcely half the length of the limb; “mb stellate, 
downwards adhering shortly to the crown, segments nar- 
row-lanceolate, the three outermost broadest: crown oné 
third shorter than the limb, inversely conical, spread at the 
mouth, and cut into twelve angular equal entire lobules 
or teeth. Filaments very short, in the intervals between the 
pairs of teeth, to which they are equal, connivent: anthers 
iow. bent into crescents after parting with the pollen, 
alancing, as long as the filaments or longer. Style trian- 
gularly filiform, inclining, curved, substantial, length of 
the flower: Stigma an obtuse point, but little enlarged. 
