only in an early stage, soon becoming glabrous, and bright 

 green, rounded on the back, tapering to a point, channelled 

 down the lower half of the face. Scape terete, glaucous, eight 

 to twelve inches long. Flowers inodorous, cernuous, greenish- 

 yellow, ten to fifteen forming a deltoid panicle four or five 

 inches long and broad ; bracts small, lanceolate, scariose ; 

 lower pedicels erecto-patent, one and a half or two inches 

 long. Perianth an inch long, the outer segments oblong, 

 rather spreading ; the three inner permanently connivent, 

 with conspicuously deflexed papillose tip. Three outer stamens 

 with flattened filaments and no anthers ; three inner shorter, 

 anther-bearing, with filiform filaments dilated at the base. 

 Ovary oblong, with the ovules very numerous and tightly 

 packed in the cells. Style prismatic, about as long as the 

 ovary. — J. G. Baker. 



Fig. 1, Portion of a leaf; 2, flower cut down the middle ; 3, anther-less stamen 

 of the outer whorl of three ; 4, anther-bearing stamen of the inner whorl of three 

 — all enlarged. 



