green, the midrib distinct except at the very tip, the margins 
concolorous. Panicle ample, deltoid, with a moderately dense 
terminal raceme half a foot long, and smaller spreading or 
ascending side ones; bracts minute, membranous, whitish, 
lanceolate or deltoid; pedicels one sixth to one fourth in. 
long, articulated at the tip, the lower ones often clustered 
in threes or fours. Perianth whitish, about an inch long, the 
reflexing divisions exceeding the tube. Stamens aboutas long 
as the perianth. Stigma obscurely three-lobed, finally ex- 
serted.— J. G. Baker. 
_ Fig. 1, Complete flower, with tip of pedicel; 2, pistil complete :—both magnified. 
