eighteen inches long, by one-sixth to a quarter of an inch 
broad, slender, soft and grass-like, concave im front, 
convex on the back, hollow, bright green, base rather 
broader with sheathing membranous margins. Stem 
eighteen to twenty-four inches high, slender, erect, 
sparingly paniculately branched, naked below; branches 
long, slender, suberect, with membranous ovate bracts 
a quarter to half an inch long at the forks and bases of the 
pedicels. Racemes slender ; flowers very remote; pedicels 
rather longer than the bracts, slender. Perianth three-— 
quarters of an inch in diameter, cleft to the base into’ 
oblong obtuse white spreading segments with a broad 
central greenish-brown nerve, the outer segments rather 
the narrower. Stamens much shorter than the perianth; 
outer the shortest, suddenly dilated at the base into a 
broadly oblong fimbriated membranous appendage; inner 
(both appendage and filament) longer; anthers short, 
oblong, attachment dorsal, versatile, slits introrse. Ovary 
globose, sessile, three-celled ; style slender, equalling the 
stamens, deciduous; stigma large, capitate, three-lobed ; 
ovules two in each cell, pendulous. Capsule nearly globose, 
three-angled, membranous, loculicidal, cells one- to two- 
seeded. Seeds triquetrous, dark, sides and back subrugosely 
pitted.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Stamens and ovary; 2, longer and, 3 and 4, shorter stamens ; 5, ovary; 
6, transverse section of ditto; 7, capsule; 8 and 9, seeds :—all enlarged. 
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