hairs long, soft, spreading, but not matted. Szem short, twelve 
to eighteen inches high. eaves six to ten inches long, 
sessile or with short stout petioles, elliptic-oblong, rather 
variable in breadth, tip rounded and apiculate, base also 
rounded, rarely subcordate, upper surface deep green, under 
dark red-purple ; principal nerves ten to twenty pair; sheaths 
appressed, green. Spike three inches long and upwards, 
cylindric-ovoid; peduncle very robust, short.  Bracts 
softly villous, rather closely imbricate; tube three-quarters 
of an inch long, campanulate, pale yellow ; blade spreading, 
recurved or almost revolute, white, much broader than long. 
Flowers hardly exceeding the bracts, sessile, white. Sepals _ 
pilose, upwards of an inch long, linear-oblong, acute, con- 
cave. Corolla-tube equalling the sepals, slender; limb one 
half an inch long; segments oblong, acute, very concave, 
nearly equal. Staminodes petaloid, with incurved crisped 
margins. Anther small, acute. Stigma broad on a stout, 
curved, torulose style.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2 and 3, top of corolla-tube with its segments removed, 
showing the staminodes in position; 4, the same laid open, showing the style 
and anther :—all magnified, 
