foot, three or four inches broad, narrowed gradually to an 

 acute point, the edge narrowly cartilaginous and obscurely 

 denticulate. Scape stout, lateral, green, three or four feet 

 long, slightly compressed. Outer spathe-valves lanceolate, 

 reaching a length of five or six inches ; bracteoles also very 

 long, linear-filiform. Umbel ten to fifteen-flowered ; pedicels 

 reaching a length of two or three inches. Ovary green, 

 oblong, under an inch long at the flowering time; tube 

 curved, greenish, three or four inches long ; limb horizontal, 

 permanently funnel-shaped, as long as the tube; segments 

 oblong, acute, pale pink, without any deeper-coloured dorsal 

 band. Filaments contiguous, doclinate, a little shorter than 

 the perianth-segments; anthers linear. Style parallel with 

 the filaments, not exsertcd. — J, G. Baker. 



