obtusely crenate, deep-green above, pale beneath, with a few 
scattered, weak, paleaceous hairs; nerves pale-reddish ; pe- 
tioles stout, bright-red ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, ciliate, en- 
tire or serrate above. Scapes numerous, trichotomously 
branched, stout, many-flowered ; bracts broadly ovate, obtuse, 
toothed above, ciliate. Flowers nodding, an inch in diameter, 
pure white. Male fl.: Sepals two, nearly orbicular. Petals 
two, similar. Stamens short ; filaments free, as long as the 
oblong anthers. Female fi.: Sepals two and petals three, like’ 
those of the male. Ovary three-winged, three-celled ; wings 
two projecting in an obtuse angle, the other more obtuse. 
Placente entire, covered with ovules. Style cleft to the 
middle into three, reniform, papillose stigmas, whose extre- 
mities are twisted.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Ovary, style, and stigmas. 3. Transverse section 
of ovary :—all magnified. 
