rounded on the back, channelled down the face. Scape 
slender, erect, terete, shorter than the leaves. Llaceme few- 
flowered, often in the wild plant congested into a corymb ; 
pedicels solitary, erecto-patent, the lower ones sometimes 
longer than the flowers; bracts small, membranous, lilac- 
tinted, deltoid or lanceolate. Perianth bright lilac, a quarter 
or a third of an inch long; segments oblong-lanceolate, 
longer than the campanulate tube. Stamens six, inserted in 
a single row at the throat of the perianth-tube; filaments 
very short, flattened; anthers oblong, minute, blue after 
they have shed their pollen. Ovary sessile, globose, with 
very few ovules in each cell; style long, cylindrical; stigma 
capitate, Fruit a small globose capsule.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Section ofa leaf ; 2, one of the six segments of the perianth ; 3, two views 
of an anther; 4, pistil, complete; 5, horizontal section of ovary :—all more or 
less enlarged, 
