than the leaves. Panicle lax, oblong, five or six feet long ; 

 branches slender, ascending, the lower a foot or more 

 long ; pedicels half or three-quarters of an incli long, 

 articulated at the apex; bracts moderately large, ovate, 

 brown, scariose. Perianth drooping, campanulate, milk 

 white, two inches or more long ; segments acute, the outer 

 oblong, the inner broader, ovate. Stamens as long as the 

 ovary ; filaments cylindrical, densely minutely muricated ; 

 anthers emarginate at both the apex and base. Ovary 

 cylindrical-trigonous, above half an inch long; style shorter 

 than the ovary ; stigmas small. Fruit hard, dry, oblong, 

 rostrate, an inch and a half long. Seeds thin. — J. G. 

 Baker. 



Fig. 1, Margin of the leaf ; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, pistil: — all more or less 

 enlarged. 



