destitute of teeth down the edges, moderately firm in tex- 
ture, not pungent at the tip, the outer ones recurving, two 
and a half or three feet long, three inches broad at the 
middle, narrowed gradually to.an inch and a half above the 
dilated base. Peduncle about five feet long, sheathed by 
several much-reduced ascending leaves. Panicle lax, 
rhomboid, about five feet long by one and a half or two 
feet broad, its erecto-patent branches a foot or a foot and a 
half long, with only very small bracts at the base ; pedicels 
very short, drooping, the upper ones of the branch solitary, 
the lower clustered; bracts minute, deltoid, membranous. 
Ovary green, cylindrical-trigonous, about three-quarters of 
an inch long; segments oblong-lanceolate, spreading, milk- 
white, an inch long, a third of an inch broad. Stamens 
half as long as the perianth-segments; filament with a 
struma an eighth of an inch thick, narrowed into a subulate 
tip below the small oblong anther. Style finally twice as 
long as the stamens; stigma minute, capitate.—J/. G. Baker. 
_ Fig. 1, the whole plant, much reduced ; 2,a flower, with the segments of the 
limb taken away; 3, two stamens; 4, horizontal section of the ovary; 5, tip of style 
and stigma :—all more or less enlarged. 
