apex rounded; nerves one medial and three to five slender 
pair radiating from the top of the petiole; upper surface 
bright pale green, lower subglaucous; petiole six to eight 
inches long, slender, with a narrowly sheathing base. 
Scape a foot or more high, erect, terete, reddish, subpani- 
culately branched above ; bracts at the base of the branches 
a quarter of an inch long, lanceolate, membranous. [lowers 
terminating the branches, erect, two inches in diameter; 
pedicel slender, one to two inches long; buds ovoid, acute, 
erect. Sepals combined into a boat-shaped membranous 
subacute caducous delicately-nerved green spathe. Petals 
four, nearly orbicular, pure white, concave, spreading, 
nerves very faint. Stamens numerous; anthers linear, 
yellow, as long as the slender filament. Ovary ovoid, with 
two opposite thick ribs, narrowed into a stout style with a 
two-lobed stigma, lobes erect; ovules very numerous, on 
two parietal placentas. Capsule oblong, stipitate, dehis- 
cing from the base to the apex, the valves separating from 
the replum but remaining attached to it at the top. Seeds 
oblong, testa crustaceous, tubercled.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx; 2, stamen; 3, ovary; 4, transverse section of ditto :—all enlarged. 
