strongly ribbed on the two faces, rather shorter than the 
leaves. Flowers eight or twelve in an umbel, horizontal or 
drooping, pure white, fragrant; pedicels an inch or an inch 
and a half long; spathe ovate, membranous, usually entire, 
as long as the pedicels. Ovary ovoid-trigonous, green ; 
perianth-tube subcylindrical, tinged with green, above half 
an inch long; limb spreading horizontally, above half an 
inch in diameter; segments suborbicular, distinctly cuspi- 
date, much imbricated. Corona patelleform, pure white, 
a quarter of an inch in diameter, entire or crenulate. 
Anthers oblong, bright yellow, three reaching the tip of the 
perianth-tube and three the rim of the corona.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Perianth cut open to show the corona and stamens; 2, front view of an’ 
anther; 3, back view of an anther; 4, pistil :—all more or less enlarged. 
