small, lanceolate. Stem glabrous, stiffly erect, three or 
four feet long. Leaves very numerous, scattered, sessile, 
linear, erecto-patent, two or three inches long. flowers 
about three, corymbose or umbellate, on long cernuous 
peduncles with a linear leafat the middle. Perianth openly 
funnel-shaped, three or four inches long; fully expanded 
limb three inches in diameter ; segments oblong-lanceolate, 
the inner and outer nearly uniform, an inch broad at the 
middle, white with a slight greenish tinge on the outside, 
white without any spots inside on the spreading upper, 
half, tinged with yellowish-green on the connivent lower 
half and covered except in the centre, with minute spots 
of claret-brown. Stamens about an inch shorter than the 
perianth; anthers large, jinear, brown. Stigma just 
overtopping the anthers.—J. G. Baker.. 
Fig. 1, An inner segment of the perianth, life-size; 2, stamens and pistil ; 
nen oe anther; 4, ovary, more or less enlarged; 5, whole plant, much 
