spotted, a little shorter than the leaves. aceme dense, 
oblong, three or four inches long, two inches in diameter; 
pedicels about as long as the flowers; bracts small, lan- 
ceolate, scariose; empty bracts of the tip of the peduncle 
thirty or forty, ovate, acute, crisped at the edge, and some- 
times, but not always, tinted purple. Perianth half an 
inch long; segments oblong, united at the base, pale green, 
oc with a distinct bright purple margin. Stamens mueh 
shorter than the perianth-segments; filaments lanceolate- 
deltoid, purplish; anthers small, oblong. Ovary ovoid, 
narrowed to a neck at the base; style filiform, as long as_ 
the ovary; stigma capitate.—J. G. Baker. : 
Fig. 1, Front view of an anther; 2, back view of an anther; 3, pistil and tip of 
pedicel; 4, horizontal section of ovary :—all more or less enlarged. - 
