thin in texture, dark green, much undulated towards the 
edges. Scape slender, subterete, tinted with purple, under 
a foot long, produced from the axis of one of the outer 
leaves of the rosette. Umbel sessile, six- to ten-flowered ; 
spathe-valves small, deltoid. Flowers rotate, faintly 
scented, white, tinted on the outside with purple, erect in 
bud. Perianth tube slender, five or six inches long; limb 
about half as long as the tube, the oblanceolate acute 
recurving segments a third or half an inch broad three- 
quarters of the way up. Stamens arcuate, distinctly shorter 
than the perianth-limb; filaments bright red; anthers 
linear, half an inch long. Style overtopping the stamens, 
bright red; stigma minute, capitate-—J. G. Baker. 
