a half inches wide. Scape about a foot high, terete, bearing an 
umbel of six to eight drooping flowers from the dilated apex of 
the scape. Spathe of a few, membranaceous, lanceolate, sca- 
riose /eaflets, two inches or more long. Pedicels about as long 
as the spathe, curved in flower, nearly erect in fruit. /owers 
pendent, two and a half inches long, including the ovary. Peri- 
anth infundibuliform, yellow, partially tinged with dull orange, 
green at the apices: ¢wbe about equal in length with limb: seg- 
ments of the limb erect. Corona simply consisting of six, short, 
erect, rounded teeth at the apex of the tube, between which the 
stamens are placed. Filaments erect, longer than the limb of 
the perianth, consequently exserted. Anthers oblong, versatile. 
Ovary inferior, globoso-trilobed, dark green. Sfy/e longer than 
the stamens, straight ; stigma of three minute lobes. 
Fig. 1. Flower with the perianth laid open, showing the corona and insertion 
of the stamens. 2. Pistil :-—magnified. 
