bear the flowers in very lax secund racemes; lower flowers 
in pairs, the upper ones solitary; pedicels spreading or 
cernuous, reaching half an inch in length, articulated at the 
middle, the upper joint whitish and thickened. Perianth 
white, measuring half an inch in diameter when expanded; 
outer segments firmer, lanceolate, acute ; inner broader, more 
tender, oblong, obtuse. Stamens distinctly shorter than the 
perianth-segments ; anthers minute, oblong; filaments appen- 
diculate with an oblong-sagittate pilose struma in the upper 
half, naked and rather flattened in the lower half. Ovary 
Seba oblong; style short, erect; stigma capitate—J. G. 
aker. 
Se 1, an entire flower; fig. 2, a single stamen; fig. 3, the pistil:—all mag- 
nefled. 
