grassy foliage. Leaves 3 in. to 1 foot long by 4-4 in. broad, 
narrow linear, acuminate, nerved and keeled, margin quite 
entire. Stem or scape 1 to 2 ft. high, slender, compressed, 
with or without a lanceolate-subulate leaf below the in- 
florescence. Panicle long, irregular ; branches distant, alter- 
nate, almost erect, with a submembranous erect sheathing 
subulate-lanceolate bract at the base of each. Mowers sub- 
umbellate ; umbels with short, broad, membraneous bracts ; 
pedicels with a bracteole opposite their insertion, strict, 
slender, lengthening after flowering, jointed under the flower. 
Perianth % in. diameter, segment horizontal, narrowly ob- 
long, obtuse, white. Filaments erect, slender, connate at the 
base; anthers ellipsoid, yellow. Ovary obovoid; style short, 
stigmas 3 spreading horizontally, subulate tips papillose. 
Capsule nearly globose, membranous. Seeds numerous, 
small, angular.—/.D.H. 
Fig. 1, Stamens, ovary, style, and stigmas; 2, the same with the stamens 
removed; 3, tranverse section of ovary :—all enlarged. 
