small, deltoid, brown. Peduncle fifteen feet long, acci- 
dentally forked in the present specimen, with many ascend- 
ing lanceolate reduced leaves. Inflorescence laxly panicled, 
rather shorter than the peduncle; branches spreading, 
bearing a cluster of many flowers at the apex; pedicels 
short; bracts small, ovate, scariose. Ovary cylindrical, 
an inch long. Perianth yellowish; tube short, funnel- 
shaped ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, ascending, nearly an inch 
long. Stamens more than twice as long as the perianth- 
lobes; anthers linear. Style overtopping the anthers.— 
J. G. Baker. | 
Fig. 1, Marginal spinules; 2, front view of anther; 3, back view of anther; 
4, apex of style ;—al/ enlarged; 5, whole plant, much reduced. 
