erect, three or four feet long. Leaves many, superposed, 
ensiform, a foot or a foot and a half long, glabrous, 
strongly ribbed. Flowers three to six in a very lax, 
‘simple, distichous spike; outer spathe-valves lanceolate, 
foliaceous, three or four inches long in the lower flowers. 
Perianth tube slender, cylindrical, curved at the top, five 
or six inches long ; limb two inches in diameter; segments 
ovate, cuspidate, much imbricated, white, with a purple 
spot at the base. Stamens contiguous, arcuate, rather 
shorter than the segments of the perianth. Capsule 
oblong-trigonous, an inch long.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Front view of anther; 2, back view of anther; 3, stigmatic lobes 
and upper part of style; exzlarged; 4, whole plant much reduced. 
