‘erect, a foot and more high, slender, glabrous, filiform, 
bearing a simple wmbel whose flowers open in succession. 
Spatha of two ovate, acute, membranaceous, patent, wrin- 
kled, purplish pieces. Flowers eight to nine, erect or 
patent, bright, purple, shining. Peduncles slender, about 
equal with the tube of the perianth. Perianth double: 
outer of one piece, salver-shaped ; tube three-fourths of an 
inch long, slender, triquetrous ; limb six-partite ; sepals in 
a double series, linear-obtuse equal in length with the 
tube, the margins incurved: interior of three leaves in- 
serted at the mouth of the tube, short, oblong, one-fourth 
the length of the limb, obtuse, or emarginate, or bifid, 
placed opposite the three interior segments. Stamens six, 
sessile, in a double row: the three upper ones opposite the 
three leaves of the inner perianth just described ; the three 
lower alternating with them. Ovary ovate, very short, 
with six furrows, three-celled: ovules numerous. Style 
cylindrical, short, somewhat angled, one-third the length 
of the tube: Stigma obtuse. Scent powerful, alliaceous. 
— 
Ae 1. Flower laid open. 2. Pistil. 3. Section of the Ovary :—mag- 
nified. 
