These leaves are half a foot long, linear-subulate, much 
tapering, striated, acutely keeled, dark green and glabrous 
above, beneath very pale coloured, owing to a covering of 
closely-placed, minute, stellated hairs, whence the specific 
name. Scapes one to two from the same root, among the 
leaves, but much shorter than they, bearing from two to 
four large handsome star-shaped flowers. The scapes and 
pedicels and outside of the flower are clothed with long and 
soft hairs. Sepals oblong, spreading, bright yellow within, 
eenish externally. Stamens six, spreading: Filaments 
short: Anthers oblong, orange-coloured. Germen inferior, 
small, obconical : Style short : Stigmas three. 
Fig. 1. Flower, from which the Sepals are removed :—magnvjfied. 
