slightly scented, seven or eight inches long ; tnbe cylindrical, 

 greenish ; segments linear, as long as the tnbe, spreading from 

 the top of the corona in the expanded flower. Corona a 

 broad white funnel, with a tube about two inches deep, 

 tinted with yellow inside downwards, and marked with six 

 green longitudinal stripes bordered with yellow, the margin 

 furnished with a spreading quadrate process between each of 

 the filaments, which is bifid and sharply toothed along the 

 outer border; free portion of the filaments inflexed, subu- 

 late, half an inch long ; anthers small, linear, bright yellow. 

 Style protruded beyond the corona, the exserted part green 

 and slightly declinate ; stigma capitate. — J. G. Baker. 



