side with green in an early state, five or six inches long; 
segments oblanceolate-oblong, the outer and the inner nearly 
uniform, above an inch broad at the middle, connivent in 
an open funnel in the lower half, subrecurved in the upper 
half. Stamens rather shorter than the perianth; anthers 
linear, brown. Style much overtopping the anthers and 
reaching to the very tip of the perianth-segments.—J. G. 
Baker. 
Fig. 1, An anther, front view ; 2,an anther, back view; 3, pistil complete :— 
all enlarged. 
