recurved tips, and in the broader base of the leaf. The root 

 is white, and has but a slight aroma. 



Descr. Root of bundles of cylindric, white tubers, con- 

 stricted here and there. Leaves a foot to a foot and a half 

 long, narrow-lanceolate or lanceolate, with a rounded base, 

 acuminate. Sdape terminal, at first short, then lengthening 

 considerably. Spike five to seven inches long, cylindric, 

 many-flowered. Bracts, lower cucullate, close set, and con- 

 nate by their bases, obtuse, recurved, green ; upper spread- 

 ing, oblong, acute, rose-red, one inch long. Flowers pale- 

 yellow. Ovary globose. Calyx-tube half as long as the co- 

 rolla-tube ; lobes three, obtuse. Corolla-lobes oblong, obtuse. 

 Up orbicular. Anther oblong, with conniving spurs. Sta- 

 minodes terete — /. D. II. 



Fig. 1. Front, and 2. Side view of flower. 3. Stamen and stigma. 4. 

 Side view of do. 5. Side view of ovary and staminodia. 6. Front view of 

 staminodes : — nil magnified. 



