inch and a half or two inches above the dilated base, 
moderately firm in texture, bright green on both sides, 
concolorous at the margin, the midrib distinct down the 
back in the lower half only. Panicle drooping, shortly- 
peduncled, three or four feet long, made up of from fifteen 
to twenty drooping cylindrical racemes a foot or more long 
and a couple of inches in diameter; bracts very minute, 
deltoid, membranous; pedicels all solitary, stiffly erecto- 
patent, a quarter or a third of an inch long. Perianth 
greenish, cylindrical, above half an inch long; tube cam- 
panulate; segments ligulate. Stamens inserted at the 
throat of the perianth-tube; filaments filiform, rather 
shorter than the perianth-segments ; anthers small, oblong. 
Ovary oblong; style a little exserted; stigma obscurely 
three-lobed.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, a single flower, opened out, magnified two diameters; fig. 2, pistil, 
magnified four diameters. 
