a 
an entire sheathing base, broad-lanceolate, acuminate, striated, 
recurved. Peduncle axillary, one to one and a half foot long, 
terete, purplish above, forming a not very copiously branched 
panicle of purple-lilac densely crowded but small flowers : bracts 
are at all the divisions and subdivisions of the panicles, large 
and broad, sheathing in the lower ramifications, small, and more 
coloured (lilac) at the base of the pedicels, where they are densely 
imbricated in secund scorpioid racemes. Pedicels lilac. Sepals 
and petals uniform, the latter the largest. Stamens all uniform, 
beardless. 
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Fig. 1. Reduced figure of an entire plant. 2. Leaf,—nat. size. 3. Panicle,— 
nat. size. 4. Flower. 5. Stamen. 6. Pistil :—smagnified. 
