foot long, stout, terete, rather glaucous. Umbel very 
dense, globose, three or four inches in diameter; spathe- 
valves two or three, deltoid, membranous, shorter than the 
pedicels, which spread stiffly in all directions, and are about 
an inch in length. Perianth a third of an inch long; 
segments uniform, lanceolate, acuminate, nearly white, 
with a distinct purplish keel, rather ascending when fully 
expanded. ilaments about as long as the perianth- 
segments, subulate, deltoid and confluent at the base, per- 
manently erect; anthers small, oblong, versatile. Ovary 
grey-purple, globose, deeply three-lobed; ovules two in 
each cell, erect, collateral; style as long as the ovary.— 
J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, an expanded flower; fig. 2, a single stamen :—oth enlarged. 
