however extend to the edge. Scapes shorter than the petioles. 
Flowers subumbellate. Flowers moderately large, and nearly the 
same size in the male as in the female. Sepals four, white, 
tinged with pink, especially the two outer ones, which are large, 
more rotundate than the mner ones. Capsule subrhomboid in 
outline, triquetrous, marked with transverse veins; the angles 
furnished with wings nearly equal in size, small, rounded, and 
ciliated with a double row of hairs. 
Fig. 1. Capsule :—magnified. 
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