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Scape terete, a foot or more long. Laceme three to four — 
inches long, the upper flowers crowded ; those of the 
lower half laxer, many of the uppermost abortive ; pedicels 
very short; bracts abortive. Perianth white, a quarter of an inch 
long; segments oblong, obtuse, slightly cucullate at the tip, the 
three inner ones permanently connivent. /i/aments shorter 
than the perianth, lanceolate, uniform. Ovary globose ; style 
as long as the ovary ; stigma eapitate—J. G. B. , . 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, stamens; 3, pistil ; 4, tranverse section of ovary :—all 
. magnified. 
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