glabrous, springing from the scape at the surface of the 
ground, six or eight inches long, two inches broad at the 
middle, narrdwed gradually to the clasping base. Scape 
terete, stiffly erect, three or four inches long. Umbel 
dense, globose, many-flowered, about two inches in 
diameter; spathe monophyllous, ovate, small, deciduous ; 
pedicels much longer than the flowers. Perianth one-sixth 
of an inch long ; segments lanceolate, acute, whitish, with 
a keel of red-brown, finally reflexed. Stamens as long as 
the perianth ; filaments all six alike, filiform from an ovate 
base; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary globose, pubescent ; 
Style as long as the ovary.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, A closed flower; 2, segment of perianth ; 3, stamens and pistil ; 
4, pistil ; 5, a flower with the segments reflexed :— all enlarged. 
