or nine inches in length when fully expanded, cernuous, 
scentless, greenish-white ; pedicels ascending, the lowest under 
an inch long; bracts lanceolate, shorter than the pedicels. 
Perianth an inch long ; outer segments flat, linear-oblong, all 
green ; inner segments broader, oblanceolate-oblong, green, 
with broad white borders, inflexed at the tip. Stamens all 
fertile, rather shorter than the inner segments of the perianth ; 
filaments flattened, dilated at the base, and again auricled 
above the top of the ovary; anthers small, pale yellow, 
oblong. Ovary oblong-trigonous ; style subulate, more than 
twice as long as the ovary ; stigma capitate.—/ G. Baker. 
Fig 1, a flower with the perianth stripped away : magnified. 
