a foot and a half long, rather compressed. Umbel centripetal, 

 iO-20-nowered ; bracts pale-green, deltoid, about as long as 

 the pedicels, which are one and a half or two inches in length 

 and subtended by linear- subulate bracteolcs. Perianth pale 

 lilac, two and a half or three inches long ; ovary oblong- 

 triquetrous, green ; ovules two in each cell, erect ; tube very 

 short ; segments oblanceolate, acute, about a third of an inch 

 broad. Stamens six, declinate, shorter than the perianth- 

 segments, the uppermost abruptly recurved ; anthers small, 

 linear-oblong, pale lilac. Style entire, a little longer than 

 the stamens ; stigma capitate. — J. G. Baker. 



