tunics slit up into fine fibres ; roots many, long, cylindrical, 
fleshy. Leaves very numerous, all radical, linear, dull green, © 
glabrous, a foot and a half long, very narrow in the wild — 
plant, but reaching a width of half an inch or more at the | 
middle when cultivated, channelled down the face, acutely — 
keeled. Peduncle terete, stiffly erect, rather longer than — 
the leaves. Raceme dense, cylindrical, sometimes a foot or — 
more long; pedicels slender, articulated at the apex, — 
spreading or rather ascending, finally an inch or more long; | 
bracts linear-subulate. Perianth lemon-yellow; segments — 
permanently connivent at the base, faintly keeled with green ; 
outer oblong, inner obovate. Stamens twice as long as — 
the perianth; filaments filiform; anthers small, oblong, — 
yellow. Ovary globose; style longer than the filaments. — 
Capsule globose, a third of an inch in diameter. Seeds 
triquetrous, dull brown, narrowly winged, two or three in — 
a cell.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Whole plant, reduced in size; 2, leaves; 3, raceme, life-size; 4, outer 
segment of the perianth ; 5, inner segment of the perianth; 6, front view of 
stamen ; 7, back view of stamen; 8, pistil, ad/ enlarged ; 9, fruit, natural size; 
10, fruit, exlarged ; 11, seed, enlarged. 
