adpressed lanceolate bract-leaves. Panicle rhomboid, the 
branches many-flowered and corymbose, the central ones 
eight or nine inches long, subtended by large scariose 
reddish bracts; pedicels half or three-quarters of an inch 
long; ultimate bracts oblong or lanceolate, about as long 
as the pedicels. Ovary trigonous, three-quarters of an inch 
to an inch in length; limb an inch and a half long, the 
oblanceolate obtuse segments free to the base, but per- 
manently connivent, at first green, but turning yellowish- 
red when mature. Stamens and pistil as long as the 
perianth-segments; filaments thickened above the base.— 
J. G. Baker, 
Fig. 1, Stamens and pistil ; 2, pistil complete :—both enlarged. 
