cartilaginous denticulate edge. Scape springing from the 
top of the bulb below the rosette of the leaves, compressed, 
one and a half or two feet long. lowers very fragrant, 
ten or twelve in an umbel; spathe-valves pale, lanceolate- 
deltoid ; pedicels stout, very short, each subtended by a 
long filiform white bract ; ovary oblong, about half an inch 
long; perianth-tube cylindrical, greenish, permanently 
erect, two inches long; segments of the limb lanceolate, 
pure white, as long as the tube, spreading horizontally, half 
an inch broad. Filaments erecto-patent, two-thirds as long 
as the perianth-segments ; anthers linear-oblong, small for 
the genus. Style reaching up to the summit of the stamens, 
tinged with red.—J. G. Baker. 
