erect raceme. Flowers fascicled, two to four from the top of a 
blunt tooth or swelling, bearing a large purple-coloured, ovate, 
membranaceous Jractea. Flowers drooping. Pedicels shorter 
than the bractea, green, terete, bearing each a subulate bracteole 
at its base. Ovary inferior, oblong, six-angled, purplish-green. 
Perianth divided to the top of the ovary, into six green, spathu- 
late, nearly equal segments (brownish-purple externally), erect and 
approximating into a tube, the apices only spreading. Stamens 
six, equal, erect, rather shorter than the perianth ; ji/amenis su- 
bulate ; authers linear-oblong, pale green. Sfy/e dilated and six- 
angled at the base; stigma small, three-lobed. WV. J. H. 
Fig. 1. Portion of the back of the leaf. 2. Pistil :—2magnijfied. 
