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below the middle, narrowed gradually to an acute point, 
furnished with a distinct pale margin. Peduncle terete, 
stiffly erect, as long as the leaves. lowers scentless, 
greenish-white, arranged in a lax raceme; pedicels cer- 
nuous in the flowering stage, one or two inches long; 
bracts lanceolate, membranous, persistent. Perianth-tube 
clavate, about an inch long; segments oblong, obtuse, 
half as long as the tube, with several stripes of green 
down to the central third. Stamens inserted at the 
throat of the perianth-tube, as long as the segments; 
filaments lanceolate, pure white; anthers linear-oblong, 
versatile. Ovary oblong-trigonous, sessile; ovules super- 
posed, crowded, horizontal; style slender, straight, longer 
than the ovary, obscurely three-lobed at the stigmatose 
apex. Fruit a large ovoid capsule.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Entire plant, much reduced in size; 2, half a flower, showing the 
stamens; 3, pistil complete; 4, horizontal section of the ovary :—all more or less 
enlarged. 
