Peduncles about two on each plant, axillary, solitary, bracteated 
when young, but dracteas soon deciduous, and leaving scars. 
Spike four to five inches long, drooping, formed of numerous 
small greenish-white flowers. Sepals spreading, subrotundo- 
ovate, concave, fleshy, white, externally greenish and tuberculate, 
with minute, elevated dots. Petals spreading, similar in shape 
to the sepals, but smaller, quite white, and not tuberculate. 
Jip \arge for the size of the flower, white, subspathulate or 
obovato-spathulate: the side lobes almost obsolete, terminal lobe 
recurved, beneath having a comparatively large, greenish, de- 
curved, obtuse, clavate spwr, as long as the rest of the flower. 
Ovary short, small, tuberculate. 
Fig. 1. Side view of a flower. 2. Front view of ditto. 3. Pollen-mass. 
