fleshy, unequal (the outermost smaller, often dotted with black 
towards the apex): two innermost series small; crowded, up- 
right, each constituting a circle of short, slender acicular fila- 
ments, equal in length, the outer erect, the inner almost hori- 
zontal, lymg over the mouth of the short tube of the flower. 
Ovary on a long stipe. 
