leaves, furnished with several lanceolate reduced leaves. 
Flowers in pairs, forming a very long, lax, simple spike, 
quite sessile; bracts ovate, small. Perianth brownish- 
green ; tube abruptly decurved and dilated at the middle, 
oblong in the lower half, campanulate in the upper half; 
lobes suborbicular, ascending. Stamens inserted at the 
base of the dilated upper half of the perianth; filaments 
filiform ; anthers linear-oblong, versatile. Style as long as 
the perianth ; stigmatose apex of three spreading orbicular 
pubescent lobes.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, A flower cut open to show the stamens; 2, ovary and style; 
3, horizontal section of the ovary: all enlarged; 4, whole plant: much 
reduced, 
