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mentum. Leaves crowded, rosulate, four to six inches long, — 
half an inch broad at the base, broadly subulate with re- 
curved margins that are involute at the tip. Scape long or 
short. Spike three to four inches long, distichous, com- 
pressed, of many closely imbricating, linear-oblong bracts, 
two inches long. Flowers numerous, snow-white. Sepals 
linear lanceolate, acuminate. Petals with a slender, linear 
claw, one inch long, and broadly obovate acuminate, reflexed 
white, crisped blade.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Calyx, style, and stigma. 2. Petal and stamen. 3. Ovary :-— 
all magnified. 
