at all ciliated. Flower solitary horizontal, permanently 
funnel-shaped, pure white with only a tinge of green on 
the outside near the base, sweet-scented, seven to ten 
inches long, the divisions remaining permanently im- 
bricated in the lower three-quarters, spreading falcately in 
the upper quarter, the three inner about two inches, and the 
three outer an inch anda half broad. Stamens a little ex- 
serted from the tube ; anthers oblong, one fourth of an inch 
long; pollen yellow. Ovary cylindrical; style declinate, 
overtopping the filaments, deeply three-lobed at the stigma- 
tose tip.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1. Ovary and base of style, natural size. 
