at the tip, the lower an inch or more long; bracts small, 
linear-subulate. Expanded flower an inch in diameter ; 
segments oblong, pure white, with a distinct one-nerved 
keel of brown. Stamens as long as the perianth-segments ; 
filaments filiform; anthers small, oblong, yellow. Ovary 
globose; style as long as the stamens. Capsule subglobose, 
half an inch in diameter. Seeds brown, acutely angled.— 
J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Bract; 2, front view of anther; 3, back view of anther ; 4, pistil :-— 
all enlarged. 
