narrowed gradually to an inch above the clasping base; the face 
bright green, the back paler green. Scape much shorter than the 
leaves, ancipitous, an inch in diameter. Umbel six- to ten- 
flowered ; pedicels very short; outer spathe-valves deltoid ; 
inner lanceolate. Flowers pure white, sweet-scented ; ovary 
oblong-trigonous, half an inch long; perianth-tube three 
inches long, green in the lower part ; segments linear, rotate, 
a little longer than the tube, half an inch broad, Corona 
funnel-shaped, two inches in length, and about the same in 
diameter at the irregularly-toothed throat, where it spreads a 
little when the flower is fully expanded; free portion of the 
filaments abruptly incurved, as in Jsmene, about an inch 
long; anthers linear, yellow, under half an inch long. Style 
protruded an inch and a-half or two inches from the corona, 
declinate, greenish ; stigma capitate-—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Horizontal section of the scape :—a little enlarged. 
