broadly rounded ovate obtuse appressed scales, the outer 
shorter, margins brownish. Leaves four to six, suberect 
and spreading, three to four feet long, gradually narrowed 
from above the base, where they are three to four inches 
broad, to a slender straight point, concave, with the back 
rounded below the middle, flat above it, nerveless, bright 
green. Scape four to five feet high, erect, as stout as the 
middle finger, cylindric, bright green, smooth. Raceme a 
foot long, lax-flowered ; bracts two to two and a half inches 
long, narrowly subulate, shorter than the slender ascending 
or erecto-patent pedicels. Flowers white, oblong, one and 
a half inches long. Perianth segments linear-oblong, con- 
cave, obtuse, with incurved hooded thickened tips, outer 
more or less spreading, inner conniving, all white except 
the middle of the back towards the tip, which is green or 
greenish brown. Stamens all fertile; filaments stoutly 
filiform, base dilated and quadrate ; anthers small, oblong; 
pollen ochreous yellow. Ovary shortly stipitate, three- 
gonous, lower half thickened into a trigonous stipes which 
sends an adnate obtuse thickened process up each face ; 
style longer than the ovary, stout, clavate, trigonous, 
papillose all over, ending in three obtuse stigmas.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Section of flower; 2, stamens; 3, ovary and style :—all enlarged. 
