and a half long, an inch in diameter. lowers twelve to 
fifteen in a sessile centripetal umbel; spathe-valves deltoid, 
_ red-brown, membranous, three or four inches long. Perianth 
nine or ten inches long; tube cylindrical, suberect, curved, 
greenish, rather shorter than the cernuous limb, the seg- 
ments of which are oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, an inch 
or an inch and a quarter broad at the middle, pure white, 
with a very distinct broad crimson stripe down the keel. 
Stamens declinate, more than an inch shorter than the 
perianth segments ; anthers linear, versatile, half an inch 
long. Style overtopping the stamens; stigma small, capi- 
tate.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Whole plant, much reduced in size ; 2, margin of leaf, magnified. 
