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5§ ft. high, its peduncle about 24 ft. long, clothed with long 
subsearious bracts; bracts deltoid at the base, acicular above, 
somewhat adpressed to the scape, those in the middle ahout 
1 in. long. Flowers scattered in a rather loose spike, 
geminate ; pedicels rather thicker in the middle than at 
either extremity, very short ; bracteoles almost membranous, 
obscure. Perianth-lobes greenish with rosy-purple edges, 
over } in. long, about } in. wide; tube about 4 in. long, 
narrowed below and there 75 in. wide. Stamens slightly 
curved, about 2 in. long ; filaments reddish ; anthers yellow, 
retuse at the base. Ovary about 3 in. long, } in. wide, 
obscurely streaked with red; style about 1} in. long. Cuap- 
sule, barely ripe, 6-lobed, the lobes alternately large and quite 
small, about 2 in. long, 4 in. wide. Seeds about % in. long, 
black and polished but hardly shining. 
Fig. 1, section of a leaf; 2 and 8, anthers; 4, stigma; 5, sketch of an entire 
plant :—all enlarged eacept 5, which is much reduced. 
