foot high, rounded, bearing a raceme of large nodding 
flowers, of a white colour, slightly tinged with purple and 
green, remote when fully expanded. Pedicels short, curved. 
Bracteas \anceolate, the lower ones longer than the flower, 
the upper ones gradually smaller, and broader in propor- 
tion to their length. Perianth funnel-shaped, its tube 
straight and about as long as the campanulate limb, seg- 
ments ovate, striated. Stamens inserted at the very base of 
the perianth beneath the germen, and equal with it in 
length, curved upwards at the apex; Anthers inserted by 
the middle of the back, two-celled ; pollen yellow. Ger- 
men oval, with three furrows, small; Style rather longer 
than the stamens, and like them curved upwards at the 
Aa filiform ; Sigma capitate, hairy, obscurely three- 
obed. 
