Peduncle slender, lateral, ancipitous, about a foot long; — 
-umbel of six to ten nearly or quite sessile flowers; spathe- _ 
valves two, lanceolate, reflexed. Perianth pure white, 
erect, with a cylindrical tube six or seven inches long; _ 
segments of the limb lanceolate, spreading horizontally 
when fully expanded, two or three inches long, under half 
an inch broad. Filaments bright purple, shorter than the 
perianth-segments; anthers linear, three-quarters of an 
inch long. Style finally exserted beyond the perianth-— 
segments; stigma capitate.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Front view of an anther; 2, back view of an anther; 3, apex of style, 
with stigma :—all enlaryed. 
