withering of the flowers, lmgulate-lanceolate, rather obtuse, 

 nearly two inches wide in the broadest part, destitute of striae, 

 subglaucous green. Scape four feet long, singularly erect, terete 

 below, furrowed above. Raceme a span long, cylindrical, densely 

 crowded before the flowers expand. Flowers large for the genus, 

 pale green. Pedicels horizontally patent, one and a half inch 

 long, strict. Bracteas solitary, subulate-lanceolate, equal in 

 length to the fully-developed pedicel, much longer than the 

 flower-buds (their pedicels included). Sepals narrow, oblong, 

 connivent and connate below into a tube, the upper half singu- 

 larly and subspirally retroflexed. Stamens very prominent ; fila- 

 ments approximate into a tube, white, pinkish below ; anthers 

 pale yellow, elliptical. Ovary oblong-ovate. Style columnar, 

 longer than the ovary. Stigma obscurely three-lobed. 



Fig. 1. Flowering specimen, — on a much reduced scale. 2. Flower. 3. Pistil, 

 •i. Section of an ovary : — magnified. The rest of the figure represents the upper 

 portion of a raceme and that of a leaf, — both nat. size. 



