green, rather fleshy, six to eight inches long by more than half — 
as broad, with many distinct arching ribs. Pedunele one to 
one and a half foot long, slightly compressed. Flowers six 
to eight in an umbel; spathe-valves lanceolate ; pedicels half 
to three-quarters inch long; unexpanded flowers suberect ; 
expanded flowers horizontal or drooping, scentless. Ovary 
green, ovoid-trigonous, quarter inch long; perianth pure 
white, funnel-shaped, one and a half inch long, the oblong 
segments half as long as the tube, spreading falcately when 
the flower is fully expanded. Séamens inserted at the throat 
of the tube, about half as long as the segments; filaments 
linear; sometimes entirely without any tooth, sometimes 
furnished with a more or less distinct tooth at the base on 
one or both sides ; anthers yellow, linear-oblong ; style as long. 
as the perianth, obtusely lobed at the stigmatose tip.—J. @. 
Baker. 
Fig. 1. Flower, cut open ; 2, horizontal section of the ovary :—both magnified. 
