including the inflorescence. Leaves six to ten below the in- 

 florescence, linear, distant, sessile, alternate, the lower five or 

 six inches long, the upper ones growing gradually smaller. 

 Flowers three to eight in a lax raceme, which occupies about 

 a third of the whole stem, on short cernuous pedicels, brac- 

 teated each by a solitary reduced linear leaf ; upper flowers 

 about an inch, lower an inch and a half long. Perianth 

 funnel-shaped, pale rose-lilac, the inner segments oblanceo- 

 late-oblong, three-eighths to half an inch broad above the 

 middle, the outer three narrower, all furnished at the base 

 inside with an obscure roundish foveole. Stamens rather de- 

 clinate, nearly as long as the perianth-segments; filaments 

 filiform; anthers small, purplish, oblong. Ovary clavate; 

 style cleft at the tip into three falcate subulate stigmatose 

 forks. Capsule small, obovoid-oblong, shallowly sulcate 

 between the cells, umbilicate at the apex. Seeds densely 

 packed, discoid, bright brown. — J. G. Baker. 



Fig. 1, Inner segment of the perianth : — enlarged. 



