narrow red-brown line, nearly flat on both sides in the 

 upper half, thickened and deeply channelled down the face 

 towards the base, rounded on the back, and marked with 

 five slender vertical grooves. Peduncle much shorter than 

 the leaves, bearing several ascending ovate, greenish 

 bract leaves. Inflorescence a densely congested subglobose 

 raceme, six or eight inches in diameter ; primary bracts 

 ovate, greenish ; flowers about six to each primary bract. 

 Perianth-tube cylindrical, greenish-white, four or five inches 

 long ; lobes oblanceolate, about an inch long. Stamens as 

 long as the perianth-lobes. Style protruded beyond the 

 tip of the lobes ; stigma capitate. — J. G. Baker. 



Fig. 1, Base of the leaf, life size ; 2, perianth-lobe and two stamens ; 

 3, anther; 4, ovary, 5, stigma; 6, vertical section of ovary: — all enlarged ' ; 

 7, whole plant, much reduced. 



