less degree. Scape erect, angular, smooth. Panicle ter- 
minal, shorter than the leaves, lax, few-flowered. Bractee 
scariose, acuminate, much shorter than the pedicels. Peri- 
anthium articulated with the arcuate pedicel, than which it 
is shorter, six-parted, with nearly equal, pale purple seg- 
ments. Filaments stupose at the apex, yellow, smooth. 
Anthers linear, brown. 
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