a fleshy, tereti-compressed, subulate, pungent leaf; with a 
groove, or channel, on one side. From the base of this 
leaf, and within the uppermost stalk, arises a solitary pedun- 
cle, much shorter than the leaf, and bearing a single large 
flower. At the top of the peduncle, at the base of the 
very long, reddish-yellow pedunculiform germen, is a pair 
of small, subulate bracteas. Sepals and petals uniform, 
spreading, narrow, linear-lanceolate, of a pale yellow-green 
colour. Jip large, pure white, cordate, acuminate, entire 
at the margin. Column semicylindrical, broader, and 
winged on each side upward, the apex fimbriated above 
the anther, which is sunk into a cavity below the apex. 
* 
Fig. 1. Front view, and fig. 2, side view of the Column. 
