destitute of marginal teeth. Peduncle not much longer 

 than the leaves; lower bract-leaves elongated, upper 

 scariose, linear-subulate from a dilated base. Flowers 

 very numerous, forming a dense cylindrical raceme, which 

 is sometimes eight or ten feet long, arranged in pairs in 

 the axils of the bracts, without any common peduncle ; 

 pedicels half an inch long. Perianth with a very short 

 cylindrical tube above the ovary ; limb campanulate, pale 

 yellow, half or three-quarters of an inch long ; segments 

 oblong. Stamens inserted at the base of the perianth- 

 segments, above two inches long. Style finally overtopping 

 the anthers. Capsule oblong-trigonous, half an inch long. 

 —J. G. Baker. 



Fig. 1, Flower, life-size i; 2, front view of anther; 3, back view of anther, both 

 enlarged. 



