texture of any known species of the genus, dull green on 
the upper surface, glaucescent beneath, obscurely carinate, 
minutely denticulate on the margin. Peduncle twice as 
long as the leaves, stout, erect, furnished with numerous 
reduced bract-like leaves. Panicle deltoid, about as long 
as the peduncle, with numerous spreading or cernuous 
branches, the lower a foot or more long; flowers in a few 
distant clusters of two or three each; pedicels reaching an 
inch or more in length, slender, articulated at the tip; bracts 
numerous, large, ovate, scariose, persistent, white tinged 
with bright red. Ovary clavate, protruded beyond the 
perianth-tube at the apex, furnished with six distinct 
grooves. Perianth-limb green, an inch and a half long, cut 
down nearly to the base into six much imbricated oblanceo- 
late segments. Stamens and style reaching nearly to the 
tip of the perianth-segments. Capsule coriaceous, sub- 
globose.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, A flower, life size, with the perianth-limb cut away; 2, front view of a 
stamen ; 3, back view of a stamen ; 4, upper part of ovary, with style; 5, stigma :— 
all more or less enlarged. 
