the base. FYowers in a dense bracteated globose ead, sessile or 
nearly so among the leaf-stalks. Bracfs large, concave, dark 
purple, broad ovate, very finely acuminated into an almost seta- 
ceous point. Corolla white, tinged with rose; ¢wbe long and 
slender; imé of six spreading, linear-oblong lobes. Filaments 
singularly thickened upwards, contracted again under the anther. 
‘Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Limb of corolla and stamens. 3. Stamen. 4. Pistil. 
5. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified. — 
