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the leaves. Umbel dense, many-flowered, about two inches 
in diameter; pedicels at most very short; outer bracts © 
obovate-cuneate, membranous, pubescent, white with | 
a slight green tinge, much imbricated, truncate or 
emircinate. Ovary oblong, green. Perianth pure white, 
above an inch long; tube subcylindrical, shorter than the — 
oblanceolate segments. Stamens as long as the perianth- _ 
segments; anthers small, oblong, lemon-yellow. Style — 
minutely tricuspidate at the apex.—J. G. Baker. 
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Fig. 1, A flower; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, istil ; 5, apex of style; 6, horizontal 
section of ovary :—all more or less se And 2 : 
