a purple tinge towards the base, varying in length from two 
to twelve inches. lowers forming a dense umbel, two or 
three inches in diameter; pedicels greenish, half an inch or an 
inch long; spathe not longer than the pedicels, usually mono- 
phyllous, round, cuspidate, sometimes splitting into two or 
even three valves. Expanded perianth rotate, about an inch 
in diameter; segments lanceolate, acute, denticulate, pure 
white, with a narrow green keel. Stamens as long as the 
perianth-segments, suberect in the expanded flower ; filaments . 
uniform, lanceolate, the upper part white, the base stained 
with bright claret-purple ; anthers small, pale yellow, linear- 
oblong. Ovary globose-trigonous, glossy black; style short, 
claret-purple. Capsule globose-trigonous, a third of an inch 
in diameter; seeds two in a cell, superposed, dull black.— 
J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, a monophyllous spathe; fig. 2, an expanded flower :—both magnified. 
