inch broad, strap-shaped, abruptly rounded at the rather 
narrowed tip, dark green above, paler beneath. Flowers 
very numerous, aS many as twelve, appearing in late 
autumn. Perianth pure white; tube two to three inches 
long, slender; throat funnel-shaped, glabrous; lobes 
nearly an inch long, linear-oblong or almost strap-shaped, 
obtuse or subacute. Stamens less than half the length of 
the perianth-lobes, erect, filaments slender; anthers hnear, 
yellow. Style about as long as the perianth-tube, slender, 
stigma obliquely truncate. Capsule pedicelled, ovoid- 
oblong, acute, three-quarters of an inch long; carpels with 
long beaks.—J. D. H. 
Figs. 1 and 2, Stamens ; 3, top of a style :—both enlarged. 
