dark-green colour, externally sometimes a little glaucous, and not 
unfrequently banded transversely with paler lines, acuminated, 
a little compressed at its apex, now and then longitudinally fur- 
rowed with three or four shallow lines. Scape, below the flowers, 
eight to ten inches or more long, shorter than the leaves. 
ftaceme a toot or more in length, tapering upwards, having fas- 
cicles of numerous flowers all along the rachis. Bracts small, 
very deciduous. Perianth of six, narrow-linear, very long, 
cream-white sepals, tinged with pink; rather more than the 
lower half of them is erect and approximate, so as to form a 
tube, but eventually separating, and soon deciduous ; the rest are 
revolute. S/amens very much exserted, twice as long as the 
tube of the perianth. Filaments slender. Anthers linear, pale- 
yellow. Ovary oblong, trigonous, three-celled. Ce//s one-seeded. 
Style filitorm, longer than the stamens. Stigma capitate, three- 
lobed. 
Fig. 1. Apex of one of the larger leaves. 2. Flower. 3. Pistil. 4. Ovary 
cut through transversely :—magnified. 
