glabrous, six or twelve inches long, channelled down the 
face. Peduncle slender, erect, one- or two-flowered; 
pedicels cernuous ; spathe-valves two, linear. Ovary green, 
turbinate. Perianth white; segments oblong, imbricated, 
half an inch long, tinged with green on the back and laxly 
many-veined, the three inner rather shorter and more 
obtuse than the three outer. Stamens epigynous; anthers 
lanceolate, bright yellow, permanently connivent; filaments 
very short. Style cylindrical; stigma minute, terminal, 
papillose. Fruit a membranous turbinate capsule. Seeds 
dimidiate-oblong, black, punctate, furnished with a con- 
spicuous fleshy white carunculus.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, An outer segment of the perianth; 2, an inner segment; 3, pistil and 
stamens; 4, an anther, viewed from the front; 5, one of the loves of the epigynous 
disk :—all enlarged. 
