three to four inches long, 30-40 flowered, the lower flowers 
yellow with green ribs, the upper ones tinged with purple; 
bracts minute, linear. Perianth oblong, one fifth to one 
fourth in. long, furnished with six prominences below the 
very narrow throat, from which the six minute deltoid 
Segments are recurved. Stamens biseriate, the three lower 
inserted about the middle of the tube; filaments short, 
incurved; anthers roundish, lilac-purple.  Pistil about 
half as long as the perianth. Style shorter than the ob- 
long ovary ; stigma capitate.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Perianth complete ; fig. 2, vertical section of the same :—both enlarged. 
