on the back, with six to ten pairs of arcuate primary veins, 
connected by close distinct cross-veinlets. Scape terete, 
about a foot long. Spathe-valves three or four, lanceolate 
acuminate, green, unequal. Flowers two or three in an 
umbel, not distinctly scented; pedicels very short; ovary _ 
oblong-trigonous, half an inch long in the flowering stage, 
with about twenty horizontal ovules in each of the three 
cells ; perianth-tube curved, two inches long, cylindrical in 
the lower part, tinged with green, dilated into a funnel in 
the upper third; limb pure white, about two inches in 
diameter when expanded; segments ovate, much imbricated. 
Corona adnate to the upper portion of the perianth-tube, 
except a very narrow free border, furnished with six 
primrose-yellow vertical stripes ; free portion of the filaments 
incurved, a third of an inch long; anthers linear. Style 
protruded from the corolla-tube, thickened and distinctly 
three-lobed at the stigmatose apex.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Anther, viewed from the front; 2, anther, viewed from the back ; 
3, stigma :—all enlarged. 
