lax, cylindrical, five or six inches long; pedicels short ; 
bracts minute. Perianth green, half an inch long; tube 
short, campanulate ; lobes linear, reflexing. Stamens rather 
shorter than the perianth; filaments subulate, bright 
mauve-purple ; anthers small, oblong. Ovary disciform, 
very broad, and short; style subulate, overtopping the 
anthers ; stigma small, capitate.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, A flower, with bract and pedicel ; 2, an entire flower, fully expanded ; 
3, segment of perianth, with stamen; 4, pistil; 5, transverse section of ovary, 
all more or less enlarged. : : 
